“Tomorrow, the Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Michael McCaul (TX) will hold a hearing to examine waste, fraud and abuse of federal funds in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Thousands of victims of the disaster were given debit cards and other types of tax payer funds to help them pay for food and shelter. The hearing… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2006
CRS Report, Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses
Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses, CRS Report, June 2, 2006 (47 pages, PDF) Continue Reading
Treasury IG Audit of the Microsoft Consulting Services Contract
Department of the Treasury’s Office of the Inspector General on Tax Administration Report: Invoice Audit of the Microsoft Consulting Services Contract – TIRNO-03-K-00191, June 2006 (30 pages, PDF). Continue Reading
Review of National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2007
Democratic Policy Committee Report, June 12, 2006: “Summary, S. 2766, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007, would authorize $467.7 billion in budget authority for defense programs in Fiscal Year 2007, an increase of $26.2 billion, or 4.1 percent in real terms, above the amount authorized for Fiscal Year 2006. It also would… Continue Reading
Report Highlights Frequency of Congress Overriding State Laws
Press release: “Rep. Waxman releases a report evaluating how many times Congress has voted over the last five years to preempt state laws and regulations. Republican leaders in Congress and President Bush have repeatedly promised to respect the role of states as laboratories of democracy. But the report documents that there is a wide gulf… Continue Reading
New Searchable Database of Congressional and NJ Legislative Documents
From John P. Joergensen, Rutgers University School of Law – Camden Law Library, news about the launch of a searchable online collection of U.S. Congressional documents, hearings and prints that are being scanned from their holdings. This is an ongoing project, and the collection will expand over time. In addition, see also the New Jersey… Continue Reading
New Corporate Affiliations Database Service
“The CorporateAffiliations.com database provides corporate linkage information on nearly 200,000 of the most prominent parent companies and their affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions – down to the seventh level of corporate linkage…[the] database is compiled and updated from information supplied by the listed companies themselves, as well as from research gathered from business publications and annual… Continue Reading
House Prices in America 2006
Press release: “A new study, House Prices in America, using Global Insight’s extensive proprietary databases on the housing market – which combined data and forecasts for home prices, home sales, housing stock, and household income with a methodology developed by the economics department of National City Corporation examines current and expected housing prices in… Continue Reading
FDA's Counterfeit Drug Task Force Report: 2006 Update
Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA or Agency) Counterfeit Drug Task Force: 2006 Update, released June 8, 2006. “Counterfeit prescription drugs are illegal, generally unsafe, and pose a serious threat to the public health. Many are visually indistinguishable from authentic drugs… We have witnessed an increase in counterfeiting activities and a more sophisticated ability to introduce… Continue Reading
GAO Warns of Future Problems With FBI IT Infrastructure Modernization Project
Follow-up to postings on the FBI’s Trilogy Information Technology Modernization Program, today GAO released a report, FBI Trilogy: Responses to Posthearing Questions, Full-text GAO-06-853R, which stated in part, “…unless the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) strengthens its controls over contractor payments and purchased equipment, future projects, including the new Sentinel project, will be highly vulnerable… Continue Reading
Arguments Heard on Constitutionality of NSA Domestic Surveillance
Arguments by the DOJ (Anthony J. Coppolino) and the ACLU were heard today in U.S. District Court – Eastern District of Michigan. The government maintains that the domestic surveillance program is legal. Continue Reading
FDA Offers Food Safety Info Online and By Phone
FDA Food Safety Website “For general food safety questions, call the FDA Food Safety Hotline at 1-800-723-3366. If the situation is critical, phone FDA’s emergency number, (301) 443-1240, which is staffed 24 hours a day. If your questions involve meat or poultry products, call the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s hotline at 1-800-535-4555.” Continue Reading
