New GAO Opinion on White House Signing Statements

From the Senate Committee on Appropriations, the text of a GAO Opinion on White House Signing Statements, June 18, 2007 (43 pages, PDF) Related government documents and news: Senate Committee on Appropriations Committee press release in response to the GAO opinion. AP: GAO Examines Signing Statement Cases – “The Bush administration sometimes fails to follow …

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

BLS Ceases Print Publication of CPI Detailed Report and PPI Detailed Report

GPO press release: “The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the Department of Labor has informed GPO that they will cease the print publication of the “CPI Detailed Report” and the “PPI Detailed Report”. The last printed copies of these titles will be Volume XXXIII, Number 6, and Volume 11, Number 6, respectively. Both of …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

Oversight Committee Investigation of Use of RNC E-Mail Accounts by White House Officials

Administration Oversight, White House Use of Private E-mail Accounts: “The Oversight Committee has been investigating whether White House officials violated the Presidential Records Act by using e-mail accounts maintained by the Republican National Committee and the Bush Cheney ‘04 campaign for official White House communications. This interim staff report provides a summary of the evidence …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Government Documents, Legal Research

USPTO Begins Pilot Program to Open Patent Examination Process for Online Public Participation

Press release: “Peer-to-Patent, an initiative of New York Law School’s Institute for Information Law and Policy in cooperation with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), began on Friday of last week. In an Official Gazette Notice published on June 6, 2007, the USPTO announced that this pilot program to test the value of …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research, Patent and Trademark

Government Information Division Posts Presentations from SLA Conference

Government Information Division, 2007 Annual Conference Recaps Denver, Colorado, June 3-6, 2007: “The Government Information Division will be recapping all its sponsored and co-sponsored events. In addition, DGI will offer recaps of other events that impact government information. This page will be updated as new recaps are made available.”

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

Report of Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health – June 2007

An Achievable Vision: Report of the Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health – June 2007 (100 pages, PDF) Related news and government documents: Washington Post, June 17, 2007 – The War Inside – Troops Are Returning From the Battlefield With Psychological Wounds, But the Mental-Health System That Serves Them Makes Healing Difficult, by …

Subjects: Government Documents

Public Interest Group Launches Searchable Farm Bill 2007 Database

Press release: “For decades, American taxpayers have provided tens of billions of dollars in federal farm subsidies to some of the largest and wealthiest farm businesses in the nation. But thousands of people who benefited from the subsidy flow were shielded from public view behind layers of partnerships, joint ventures, limited liability corporations, cooperatives, and …

Subjects: Congress, Legal Research, Legislation