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Daily Archives: April 5, 2006
Advocacy Groups Oppose Sunset Proposals
OMBWatch: “Nonprofit groups spoke out today against sunset proposals now being pushed by House conservatives. The proposals could create a single unelected commission to review every federal program, and would mandate that all federal programs automatically “sunset”–completely cease–after a fixed period, unless Congress intervened.” Read the letter to Congress Learn more about sunset proposals EPIC:… Continue Reading
IRS Where’s My Refund Site Very Popular
FCW.com: ‘Where’s My Refund?’ Users flock to find out Where’s My Refund? Continue Reading
The World Factbook 2006 Online Edition Now Available
Press release: “The World Factbook 2006 is now available on the Central Intelligence Agency Web site. The World Factbook remains the CIA’s most widely disseminated and most popular product, now averaging almost 6 million visits each month.” Download page Continue Reading
Pentagon Collection of Info on Peace Activists Prompts Investigation
Reuters, via Washington Post: Pentagon Says Improper Data in Security Database Continue Reading
GAO Report on Junk Fax Enforcement
Telecommunications: Weaknesses in Procedures and Performance Management Hinder Junk Fax Enforcement, Full-text GAO-06-425, April 5, 2006. Highlights. “FCC has procedures for receiving and acknowledging the rapidly increasing number of junk fax complaints, but the numbers of investigations and enforcement actions have generally remained the same. In 2000, FCC recorded about 2,200 junk fax complaints; in… Continue Reading
Treasury OIG Audit on Oversight of Tax Practitioners
The Office of Professional Responsibility Can Do More to Effectively Identify and Act Against Incompetent and Disreputable Tax Practitioners Report, prepared by the Department of the Treasury Office of the Inspector General, March 31, 2006. (43 pages, PDF) “The overall objective of this review was to determine whether the IRS has an effective process to… Continue Reading
CRS Legal Analysis of Patriot Act
USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005: A Legal Analysis (74 pages, PDF): “This report describes the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (the Act) and, where appropriate, discusses the modifications to law made by the USA PATRIOT Act Additional Reauthorizing Amendments Act of 2006.” Continue Reading
