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Follow-up to yesterday’s posting, GAO Report on Medicare Website Highlights Overall Lack of Usability, today from the White House, Setting the Record Straight: GAO’s Inaccurate, Incomplete, And Outdated Medicare Report.
Press release: “In response to media requests, a list of Hurricane Katrina-Related Audits has been prepared by the Office of the Deputy Inspector General for Auditing.” Office of the Deputy Inspector General for Auditing, Hurricane Katrina-Related Audits
Press release: FCC Adopts Order to Enable Law Enforcement to Access Certain Broadband and VoIP Providers, May 3, 2006: “The Federal Communications Commission today adopted a Second Report and Order and Memorandum Opinion and Order (Order) that addresses several issues regarding implementation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), enacted in 1994. The …
California Online Voter Guide: “Now in its 13th edition, the 2006 guide serves up nonpartisan information on the statewide propositions and all of the congressional, legislative, and statewide constitutional office candidates in this election. This voter guide will be updated throughout the election season.”
Press release, May 3, 2005: “Rep. Waxman, along with Reps. Dingell, Rangel, Stark, and Sherrod Brown, releases a GAO report that finds that the information provided by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services about the complicated new drug benefit is rife with problems. According to GAO, the federal handbooks, website, and 1-800 Medicare hotline …
PandemicFlu.gov: “One-stop access to U.S. Government avian and pandemic flu information. Managed by the Department of Health and Human Services. In the event of a pandemic, this will be the authoritative site for U.S. government information on the pandemic.” The site recently added a News Room (updates available via RSS) offering topical news items, news …
Press release, April 26, 2006: “The Department of Homeland Security announced today the unprecedented predesignation of five teams that will coordinate the Federal government’s role in support of state and local governments in preparing for, and responding to, major natural disasters this storm season. In total, 27 Federal officials have been appointed, each with unique …
Monitoring Medicare Part B Drug Prices: A Comparison of Average Sales Prices to Average Manufacturer Prices (OEI-03-04-00430), 36 pages, PDF, May 3, 2006.
Press release, May 2, 2006: “In an effort to increase taxpayers’ access to federally funded research, U.S. Senators Joe Lieberman (D-CT) and John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced the bi-partisan Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006, today. The bill requires every federal agency with an annual research budget of more than $100 million to implement a …
Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing on FBI Oversight, May 2, 2006. From the Statement of Senator Patrick Leahy: “The FBIs participation in domestic spying — at the expense of the privacy and civil liberties interests of our citizens — is also evident in a recent report on the Bureau’s surveillance activities. According to a …
EPA Provided Quality and Timely Information on Hurricane Katrina Hazardous Material Releases and Debris Management [Report – PDF, 28 pages] [At a Glance – 1 page, PDF]
Podcasting Legal Guide – Rules for the Revolution (38 pages, PDF), by Colette Vogel and Mia Garlick. Published under a Creative Commons license, with an accompanying wiki. “The purpose of this Guide is to provide you with a general roadmap of some of the legal issues specific to podcasting…and covers only US-based legal questions.”