NARA's FY 2006 Expenditure Plan
Electronic Records Archives: The National Archives and Records Administration’s Fiscal Year 2006 Expenditure Plan, Full-text GAO-06-906 and Highlights August 18, 2006.
National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism Annual Report 2006
National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism Annual Report 2006 (82 pages, PDF)
State Dept. Website on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Reconstruction Efforts
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Reconstruction Efforts: Includes links to Useful Internet Sites, U.S. Government Documents, Speeches, Fact Sheets, Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS).
U.S. – U.K. Cooperation on Intel Aided Terror Investigation
Federal Times: “British authorities broke up an alleged terrorist plot to bomb U.S.-bound airliners last week in part because of improvements in the way U.S. intelligence agencies are sharing information, according to the Homeland Security Departments chief intelligence officer.”
President Bush Signs H.R. 4, the Pension Protection Act of 2006
Follow up to August 16, 2006 posting, CBO Cost Estimate for Pension Protection Act of 2006, see today’s Presidential signing statement and Fact Sheet: The Pension Protection Act of 2006: Ensuring Greater Retirement Security for American Workers.
Women in Business: A Demographic Review of Womens Business Ownership
Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA: “Women-owned firms increased nearly 20 percent over the latest period studied, according to a report, Women in Business: A Demographic Review of Womens Business Ownership, released by the Office of Advocacy.” Full Report (45 pages, PDF) Research Summary Press Release
The Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update
Congressional Budget Office’s The Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update, August 2006 (88 pages, PDF). “CBO now expects the 2006 deficit to total $260 billion.” See also the 5 page Summary
NY Public Library Project to Update Access to Reference Works
New York Times – With a New Classification System, the New York Public Library Makes a Change for the Clearer: “Librarians have begun a yearlong project to reorganize, reclassify and update the roughly 25,000 reference works on the rooms open shelves. When they are done, officials promise, readers will have a much easier time locating …
State Department Web Resources on Upcoming 9/11 Anniversary
eJournal USA: Rebuilding and Resilience – Five Years After 9/11 9/11/2006 – Fifth Anniversary – Web Resources
Studies Addressing EPA's Organizational Structure
EPA OIG Report No. 2006-P-00029, Studies Addressing EPA’s Organizational Structure, August 16, 2006 [Report PDF – 41 pages] [At a Glance]
Vault Report on Top 100 Most Prestigious Firms
The Top 100 Most Prestigious Firms, 2006.
Federal Judge Rules NSA Domestic Surveillance Program Unconstitutional
Via ACLU, ACLU v. NSA Federal Court Decision,(8/17/2006) Via U.S. District Court, ED of Michigan, ACLU v National Security Agency, 44 pages, PDF. “Description: In the first federal challenge ever argued against the Bush administration’s NSA spying program, U.S. District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor rules that the program to monitor the phone calls and …