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Immigration Fact Check: Responding to Key Myths, May 25, 2007: “MYTH: The government is going to give permanent legal status to 12 million illegal aliens before securing our borders. * FACT: Temporary worker and Z visas will not be issued until benchmarks for enforcement are met. These triggers include: > Increasing border fencing. > Increasing …
S.Rpt. 110-57: Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence United States Senate, Covering the Period, January 4, 2005 to December 8, 2006 (42 pages, PDF), April 26, 2007 ordered to be printed, released May 24, 2007.
Social Isolation and American Workers: Employee Blogging and Legal Reform, by Rafael Gely and Leonard Bierman, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology (JOLT), Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 2007. Abstract: “Despite the work environment’s central role in providing social engagement, employees in the American workplace are more socially isolated than ever before. Americans are moving …
Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology press release: “The report provides an overview of functional foodsfoods that are enhanced to provide health benefits beyond basic nutritionand looks at the potential to develop these foods through the application of modern biotechnology. After detailing some of the recent scientific advances that could lead to a variety of …
CRS Report, FDA’s Authority to Ensure That Drugs Prescribed to Children Are Safe and Effective, May 1, 2007. “The Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act (BPCA, P.L. 107-109) and the Pediatric Research Equity Act (PREA, P.L. 108-155) allow the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to offer financial and regulatory incentives to manufacturers for testing their products …
“On Thursday, May 10..the Domestic Policy Subcommittee…evaluate[d] incompleteness in the federal database used for checking the criminal and mental health records of gun purchasers, as well as the inconsistencies in state compliance with federal gun purchase laws. The hearing…address[ed] inconsistencies among the states in their supplemental gun prohibition laws. The hearing…concern[ed] state compliance with the …
Governors and State Legislators Submit Comments on the Draft Regulations to Implement the Real ID Act, May 8, 2007 DHS’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee Comment on the Real ID, May 7, 2007 FCW.com reports that the DHS Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee announced at a May 7, 2007 meeting that “cannot endorse …
House Report 110-131, May 7, 2007: The Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 2082) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes, having …
FinancialPrivacyNow.org: “Identity theft is one of the fastest growing financial crimes. Nearly 10 million Americans fall victim each year. The Identity Theft Resource Center reported in 2005, on average, an ID theft victim of new account and other fraud spent 60 hours resolving problems brought on by ID theft, those victims of existing accounts spent …
The Open House Project Recommendations Report – Congressional Information and the Internet – A Collaborative Examination of the House of Representatives and Internet Technology, May 8, 2007, Collaboratively Authored by a project of Sunlight Foundation [Available as a PDF]. Executive Summary and Acknowledgments Open House Project Legislation Database Preserving Congressional Information Congressional Committees Congressional Research …
Press release: “The bill provides a privilege in federal court proceedings for reporters to refrain from revealing their confidential sources of information. The privilege is similar in nature to that currently offered by 32 states and the District of Columbia. The ability to assure confidentiality to people who provide information is essential to effective news …
Press release: “In a historic vote, the Florida House today unanimously passed CS/HB 537, already passed in the Senate, that provides almost all voters paper ballots in time for the 2008 Presidential election, and bans paperless DREs [direct-recording electronic voting machines], and bans paperless DREs outright by 2021.” Related postings on e-voting
