Feingold and Obama Introduce the Lobbying and Ethics Reform Act

Press release: “U.S. Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Barack Obama (D-IL) have introduced legislation that would implement extensive changes to lobbying and ethics rules in Congress. The Feingold-Obama bill improves substantially on S. 2349, the lobbying disclosure and ethics bill that the Senate passed in March 2006 and that the Senate will begin considering today. …

Subjects: Congress, Legislation

Protecting Civil Rights: A Leadership Guide for State, Local, and Tribal Law Enforcement

Protecting Civil Rights: A Leadership Guide for State, Local, and Tribal Law Enforcement: “With funding from and collaboration with the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), a component of the US Department of Justice, IACP produced this guide as a comprehensive overview of the civil rights issues and challenges that face today’s law enforcement …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research