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SSA Disability Representatives: Fee Payment Changes Show Promise, but Eligibility Criteria and Representative Overpayments Require Further Monitoring, GAO-08-5, October 15, 2007 Export-Import Bank: Improvements Needed in Assessment of Economic Impact, GAO-07-1071, September 12, 2007 USDA: Information on Classical Plant and Animal Breeding Activities, GAO-07-1171R, September 13, 2007
Michael Ravnitzky: “The new website, http://www.getmyfbifile.com provides a quick and easy way to request your FBI Files, if they exist, from FBI Headquarters as well as the various FBI Field Offices. Additional bonus features allow you to ask for files about you at other federal agencies including the CIA, DIA, NSA, the Secret Service, and …
Press release: “Three telecommunications companies have provided responses to inquiries by the Committee on Energy and Commerce about their involvement with the National Security Agency warrantless wiretapping program. On October 2, Rep. John D. Dingell (D-MI), Chairman of the Committee, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, and Rep. …
Press release: “Innovations being developed for commercial use also have the potential to play a major role in protecting the country and improving our ability to respond to and quickly recover from a catastrophic event, according to a new report from the nonpartisan Reform Institute. From the Storefront to the Front Lines: The Private Sector …
D-2007-133 Defense Civilian Pay System Controls Placed in Operation and Tests of Operating Effectiveness for the Period of July 1, 2006, Through June 30, 2007 (September 28, 2007) (Project D2007-D000FB-0189.000) 132 pages, PDF.
National Space Society: Space-Based Solar Power As an Opportunity for Strategic Security – National Security Space Office Interim Assessment Phase 0 Architecture Feasibility Study, October 10, 2007 Executive Summary Full Report (including Executive Summary), 75 pages, PDF Photos and report of October 10 press conference Still photos and video of SBSP concept Some news reports …
Defense: FY2008 Authorization and Appropriations, updated September 28, 2007 Spending by Employers on Health Insurance: A Data Brief, October 10, 2007 Burma Sanctions: Background and Options, October 10, 2007 Federal Indian Education Programs: Background and Issues State Statutes That Proscribe the Use of Symbols of Fear and Violence with the Intent to Threaten, October 5, …
Grand Jury Handbook, Updated October 2007 (24 pages, PDF)
US Courts: “The updated versions of the various fees for federal court filings in appellate, district, bankruptcy courts and more are available online.”
Annual Report to Congress on the Information Sharing Environment, Department of Homeland Security’s Information Sharing Environment, submitted by Ambassador Thomas E. McNamara, Program Manager for the Information Sharing Environment, September 2007 (44 pages, PDF).
A mission to remember: Volunteers for the Library of Congress are racing against time to collect oral histories of America’s remaining World War II veterans. By Deborah Horan, Chicago Tribune staff reporter, October 14, 2007: “Since 2000, volunteers working with the library’s American Folklife Center have collected more than 50,000 taped interviews as part of …
Press release: “The National Institutes of Health (NIH) the nation’s medical research agency is launching one of the most extensive collections of genetic and clinical data ever made freely available to researchers worldwide. Called SHARe (SNP Health Association Resource), the Web-based dataset enables qualified researchers to access a wealth of data from large …