Category «Legislation»

New CRS Reports: FCC and Media Ownership, China, THUD, State Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Pension Protection, RFS

The FCC’s 10 Commissioned Economic Research Studies on Media Ownership: Policy Implications, December 5, 2007 China’s 17th Communist Party Congress, 2007: Leadership and Policy Implications, December 5, 2007 State Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Comparison and Analysis, December 5, 2007 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education: FY2008 Appropriations, December 4, 2007 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Legislation

New CBO Reports: Monthly Budget Review, Impact of Unauthorized Immigrants on the Budgets of State and Local Governments, Cost Estimate for Energy Independence and Security Ac

Monthly Budget Review, December 2007: “The federal budget deficit was $157 billion during the first two months of fiscal year 2008, CBO estimates, $35 billion more than the shortfall recorded through November of last year. Close to half of that difference is the result of shifts in the timing of certain payments and a difference …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Legislation

FY2008 Intelligence Authorization Conference Report Cleared for Floor

“Chairman Silvestre Reyes, D-TX, of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement on the successful filing of the House-Senate conference report of H.R. 2082, the fiscal year 2008 Intelligence Authorization Act, clearing the bill for consideration on the floor of the U.S. House: This isstrong legislation that provides full funding for …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Legislation

Oil and Natural Gas Market Supply and Renewable Portfolio Standard Impacts of Selected Provisions of H.R. 3221

Oil and Natural Gas Market Supply and Renewable Portfolio Standard Impacts of Selected Provisions of H.R. 3221: “This paper responds to an October 31, 2007, request from Representatives Barton, McCrery, and Young requesting the Energy Information Administration (EIA) to assess selected provisions of H.R. 3221, the energy bill adopted by the House of Representatives in …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legislation

Conyers, House Judiciary Members Introduce Bill to Protect Creative and Intellectual Property Rights

Press release: “In an effort to strengthen laws protecting creative and intellectual property, leaders of the House Judiciary Committee today introduced bipartisan legislation to improve federal agency enforcement efforts and provide more resources to those efforts. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), Ranking Member Lamar Smith (R-TX), Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and …

Subjects: Congress, Intellectual Property, Legislation

Oversight Committee Now Posting Preliminary Hearing Transcripts

Via Dan Froomkin, news that the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has begun to post preliminary transcripts of selected hearings on its website. However, links to these transcripts is currently circuitously provided by conducting a search on Google, documented here by Dan.

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Legislation, Search Engines

Openness Promotes Effectiveness in our National Government Act of 2007

Press release: “Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) Tuesday introduced bipartisan, revised legislation to increase government transparency and provide the first major reforms to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in more than a decade. The Senate passed an earlier version of the Leahy-Cornyn bill — the Openness Promotes Effectiveness in our National …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Freedom of Information, Legislation

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Substitution Act of 2007

Legislative Text of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Substitution Act of 2007, S. 2402, introduced by Arlen Specter, December 3, 2007. Related postings on FISA

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Legal Research, Legislation, Privacy

New on LLRX.com for November 2007

Criminal Resources: False Confessions, by Ken Strutin Australian Trade Marks Law: The Madrid System, by Nicholas Weston Gadgets, Gadgets, Gadgets, by Barbara Fullerton, Sabrina I. Pacifici and Aaron Schmidt Locating Lawyers (including Corporate Counsel): A Brief Overview of Attorney Directories and a 50 State Survey of Online State Bar Directories, by Scott Russell Deep Web …

Subjects: Congress, E-Records, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation, Marketing, Patent and Trademark

Riddick's Senate Procedure – Searchable Online

GPO Access: “Named after Senate Parliamentarian Emeritus Floyd M. Riddick, this Senate document contains the contemporary precedents and practices of the Senate. An appendix contains suggested forms for various procedures, e.g., offering motions or filing conference reports. It is updated periodically by the Senate Parliamentarian. More than one thousand precedents have been researched, analyzed, and …

Subjects: Congress, Legal Research, Legislation

Awareness of Security Freeze Legislation and Use of Security Freezes by Consumers Age 18+

Awareness of Security Freeze Legislation and Use of Security Freezes by Consumers Age 18+ Research Report, Jennifer H. Sauer, M.A., AARP Knowledge Management, Neal Walters, AARP Public Policy Institute, November 2007 “All but eleven states have enacted Security Freeze laws designed to protect consumers from identity theft. These laws give consumers the right to block …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Legal Research, Legislation, Privacy

A Decade of Change in the Federal Courts Caseload: Fiscal Years 1997-2006

US Courts: “Supreme Court decisions, shifting Administration priorities, new legislation, and numerous other factors caused the composition of the federal courts caseload to change over the past decade. Between September 30, 1997 and September 30, 2006, appeals court filings steadily climbed, district court caseloads fluctuated, and bankruptcy filings hit a record high before tumbling following …

Subjects: Courts, E-Government, Government Documents, Legislation

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