Category «Legislation»

White House: National Strategy for Homeland Security

Fact Sheet: National Strategy for Homeland Security – A Comprehensive Guide For Securing the Homeland: “Today, the President issued an updated National Strategy for Homeland Security, which will serve to guide, organize, and unify our Nation’s homeland security efforts. This Strategy is a national strategy – not a Federal strategy – and articulates our approach …

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

Guide to Finding Proposed Legislation Using EUR-Lex

European Information Association: “See also our guides to using OEIL and PreLex. Produced by the Commission and Parliament respectively, these two sources allow you to monitor the progress of proposed legislation through the various stages leading to adoption (or rejection – not all proposals are adopted). Proposals are generally published by the European Commission. They …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

House Passes Military Contractor Legislation

Press release: “Today, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (MEJA – H.R. 2740) Expansion and Enforcement Act of 2007, despite the Bush Administration’s opposition, with a vote of 389-30. The bill, which passed through the House Judiciary Committee in August, makes private contractors working in combat zones like Iraq …

Subjects: Congress, Legislation

Climate Change Legislation Design White Paper: Scope of a Cap-and-Trade Program

Boucher and Dingell Release First Climate Change Legislation Design White Paper, prepared by the Committee on Energy and Commerce committee staff, October 3, 2007 (22 pages, PDF): “This paper addresses the scope and coverage of the climate change program. It discusses what sectors and activities are directly emitting greenhouse gases, and how those emissions could …

Subjects: Congress, Legislation

New on LLRX.com for September 2007

Criminal Justice Resources: Sex Offender Laws, by Ken Strutin The Veil Doctrine in Company Law, by Amin George Forji Congressional Budget Office Launches Topical Health Website, by George Butterfield Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide – Updated and Revised, by Sabrina I. Pacifici CongressLine by GalleryWatch.com: The Earmark Reality, by Paul Jenks The Government …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation, Libraries

Senate Judiciary Hearing: Strengthening FISA: Does the Protect America Act Protect Americans' Civil Liberties and Enhance Security?

Hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on “Strengthening FISA: Does the Protect America Act Protect Americans’ Civil Liberties and Enhance Security?” Tuesday, September 25, 2007. [Link to witness statements] September 25, 2007: DNI Statement for the Record – Senate Committee on the Judiciary Hearing on FISA Related postings on FISA and Protect America Act

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

Report by Environmental Group Analyzes Energy Bill Emissions Reduction Scenarios

Press release: “A new analysis released today by Environmental Defense shows that energy legislation passed by the House and Senate would let greenhouse emissions continue to increase for the next three decades, even if the best fuel-saving and renewable energy provisions in both bills were combined in conference committee…Environmental Defense’s analysis examines how well U.S. …

Subjects: Congress, Legislation

Citizen Group Launches Online Tool to Investigate and Evaluate Earmarks

“Today, Sunlight and Taxpayers for Common Sense launched EarmarkWatch.org, a user-friendly, online investigative tool that lets citizens connect the dots between lawmakers, lobbyists, campaign contributors and earmarks, plus share info and comments on whether earmarks meet pressing needs, pay off political contributors, or are simply pure pork. Currently, the site includes nearly 3,800 earmarks from …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

New Online Guide to House and Senate Members of the 110th Congress

GPO: “This online Guide to the House and Senate Members of the 110th Congress is intended to be a single point of access for Member information from several different official sources. Both congressional offices and the public will be able to: Access data concerning House and Senate Members from various publications including: the Congressional Pictorial …

Subjects: Congress, Legal Research, Legislation

New Australian Legislation Would Allow Police to Ban Internet Content

Press release: “Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) today slammed a Bill introduced into the Senate which would give members of the Australian Federal Police powers to ban access to Internet content. The Communications Legislation Amendment (Crime or Terrorism Related Internet Content) Bill 2007 would, if enacted, give senior members of the Australian Federal Police powers to …

Subjects: Censorship, Cybercrime, Government Documents, Internet, Legislation, Privacy