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Daily Archives: May 3, 2006
GAO Report on Medicare Website Highlights Overall Lack of Usability
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… Continue Reading
E-Gov Site on Avian and Pandemic Flu Resources
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… Continue Reading
DHS Names Lead Federal Officials for the 2006 Storm Season
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… Continue Reading
HHS OIG Report on Monitoring Medicare Part B Drug Prices
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. Continue Reading
Bill Requires Federal Agency Research to be Posted Online Within 6 Months of Publication
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… Continue Reading
Hearing on FBI Oversight
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… Continue Reading
OIG Review of EPA Oversight of Post Katrina Hazardous Materials Releases Info
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] Continue Reading
Podcasting Legal Guide
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.” Continue Reading
American Lawyer Media Content Moves to Westlaw
Press release, May 1, 2006 – New ALM/West Strategic Partnership Brings ALM Content Exclusively to Westlaw: “Specific material from ALM to be offered exclusively on Westlaw includes the full content of ALM magazines, state and national newspapers, including The American Lawyer®, The National Law Journal®, Corporate Counsel®, New York Law Journal® and Legal Times®, as… Continue Reading
Journalists’ Report Identifies 10 Most Censored Countries
Special Report 2006: “North Koreans live in the most censored country in the world, a new analysis by the Committee to Protect Journalists has found. The world’s deepest information void, communist North Korea has no independent journalists, and all radio and television receivers sold in the country are locked to government-specified frequencies. Burma, Turkmenistan, Equatorial… Continue Reading
