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Press release: “Two leaders of the Committee on Energy and Commerce this week demanded an explanation for the planned closings of seven Food and Drug Administration (FDA) facilities across the country. In a letter to Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach, Rep. John D. Dingell (D-MI), Chairman of the Committee on Energy and …
Press release: “The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW)…released its 2006 Congressional Ratings. Since 1991, CCAGW has examined roll-call votes to separate the taxpayer advocates in Congress from those who favor wasteful programs and pork-barrel spending….[the report features] vote descriptions, scorecards for the House and Senate, personalized scorecards for each member of Congress, and …
Follow up to postings on EPA library closures, this June 29, 2007 posting from the ALA District Dispatch blog: “After considerable pressure by librarians, researchers and the public, Congress has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to restore its library network. In the fiscal year (FY) 2008 Interior Appropriations bill, the Senate Appropriations Committee orders …
EAC Releases NVRA Report – 172.8 Million Registered Voters in 2006: “The United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) today delivered to Congress its report on the Impact of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) of 1993. The NVRA report, which covers registration information from after the 2004 general election through the 2006 general election, and …
Pollingreport.com, June 28, 2007: “A decade ago, Fabrizio, McLaughlin and Associates (FMA) released its groundbreaking study entitled “The Elephant Looks in the Mirror.” The study took a critical look at the core beliefs of the GOP and broke the party down into issue and principle based segments. That study became a roadmap for many in …
New state laws bring changes July 1, by Pauline Vu: “Come Sunday, it will be a felony in Iowa to dismember a body to conceal a crime. New York City will have to stop sending undercover investigators to Virginia to buy guns in sting operations. And even Rip Van Winkle will have to show some …
Press release, June 28, 2007: “In a new report released today, a panel of leading AIDS experts calls for a major scale-up of global HIV prevention programs, citing new data projecting that expanded access to prevention could avert approximately 30 million of the 60 million HIV infections expected to occur by 2015. The report, released …
Press Release, June 28, 2007: Nixon Library to Become Part of the National Archives Presidential Library System and to Release Formerly Withheld Nixon Special Political Documents and Tapes “The legal transfer on July 11, 2007, of the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace from the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace Foundation to the National Archives. The …
World Crude Oil Distillation Capacity, January 1, 1970 – January 1, 2007 (06/29/2007): “This table has been updated with estimates for January 1, 2007 for the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands from EIA’s just-released report, Refinery Capacity 2007.” July 2007 Petroleum Marketing Monthly (06/29/2007): “Monthly price and volume statistics on crude …
Names of the Detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: “Until March 3rd, the Pentagon had declined to identify the detainees at Guantanamo Bay Military Prison, most of whom were captured in Afghanistan during and after the 2001 war there. As a result of an Associated Press Freedom of Information Act request and lawsuit, the Department of …
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization and Procurement: “Last year, Rep. Henry A. Waxman released the first comprehensive assessment of government contracting under the Bush Administration. The report, entitled Dollars, Not Sense: Government Contracting Under the Bush Administration, found that between 2000 and 2005, federal procurement spending rose by over …
Report Number 07-INTEL-09 The Threat and Local Observation Notice (TALON) Report Program (U) (56 pages, PDF)