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Hastert Issues Preliminary Report on Ex-Rep Foley's Improper Email Exchanges

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  • Roll Call, September 29, 2006: “Foley Interviewed About Page Last Year; Democrats Not Told – Ex-Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.), who resigned Friday after reports of his improper communications with a former male House page were made public, was interviewed about some of those contacts by the chairman of the House Page Board and the then-Clerk of the House last year.”
  • “Following is the full text of the release issued Saturday [September 30, 2006] by Speaker Dennis Hastert’s (Ill.) office regarding events leading up to Rep. Mark Foley’s (R-Fla.) resignation.
    INTERNAL REVIEW OF CONTACTS WITH THE OFFICE OF THE SPEAKER REGARDING THE CONGRESSMAN MARK FOLEY MATTER
    On Friday, September 29, the Speaker directed his Chief of Staff and Outside Counsel to conduct an internal review to determine the facts and circumstances surrounding contact with the Office of the Speaker regarding the Congressman Mark Foley matter. The following is their preliminary report.” [Link to full text]

  • Press release: “Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) calls upon the House of Representatives to appoint an outside counsel to investigate the House leadership’s role in covering up Rep. Mark Foley’s (R-FL) inappropriate email exchanges with a sixteen-year-old former House page.”

  • House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct
  • The Hill: “Foley, who served on the Ways and Means Committee, also chaired the Missing and Exploited Children Caucus.” [note: the caucus website is currently offline]
  • Joint Statement from Speaker Dennis Hastert, Majority Leader John Boehner and Majority Whip Roy Blunt on the Congressman Mark Foley Matter, September 20, 2006
  • CNN: Foley in alcoholism treatment center, October 2, 2006
  • AP: FBI Examining Foley’s E-Mail to Teens, October 2, 2006

    • GAO Report, Human Capital: Trends in Executive and Judicial Pay

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    Human Capital: Trends in Executive and Judicial Pay Suggest a Reexamination of the Total Compensation Package, Full-text GAO-06-1116T, and Highlights, September 20, 2006. “People are critical to the success of the federal government’s overall transformation effort. Yet the government has not transformed, in many cases for decades, how it classifies, compensates, develops, and motivates its… Continue Reading

    U.S. Becomes Party to Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime

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    Press release: “On September 22, 2006, the President signed the United States’ instrument of ratification for the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime. Today, the United States became a party to the Convention upon deposit of the instrument of ratification at the headquarters of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. The Convention will enter… Continue Reading

    ICANN Joint Project Agreement: With Commerce

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    Press Release, September 29, 2006: “The Commerce Department announced it has signed a Joint Project Agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to continue the transition of the coordination of the technical functions relating to the management of the Internet Domain Name and Addressing System to the private sector.” Joint Project… Continue Reading

    Public Libraries and the Internet 2006: Study Results and Findings

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    “The 2006 national study presents findings from both a national survey and case sites. The national survey provides provides longitudinal data regarding public library Internet connectivity and public access computing services and resources, but also explores the impacts and benefits that communities derive from public library connectivity. The case sites focused primarily on successfully networked… Continue Reading

    Conference Report on DHS Appropriations Act for FY 2007

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    Conference Report (H. Rept. 109-699) to HR 5441 as agreed by the House and Senate conferees. House Committee on Appropriations press press release, September 25, 2006: “The conference agreement provides $34.8 billion for operations and activities of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in fiscal year 2007, an increase of $2.3 billion above fiscal year… Continue Reading

    Hearing on Hezbollah’s Global Reach

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    House Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation and the Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia, joint hearing, September 28. 2006: Hezbollah’s Global Reach. Statements (PDF): The Honorable Edward R. Royce, The Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Mr. Frank C. Urbancic, Jr., Mr. John Kavanagh, Eitan Azani, Ph.D., Mr. Christopher Hamilton, Mr.… Continue Reading

    DOD IG Audit of Internal Control Issues

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    D-2006-123 Program Management of the Objective Individual Combat Weapon Increment I (09/29/2006) View Summary Only (Project D2006-D000AE-0154.000) “This special version of the report has been revised to omit attorney client privilege, predecisional, and source selection sensitive data. The full report is For Official Use Only (FOUO). To request a copy of the full report, file… Continue Reading

    FDA Findings on E. Coli Outbreak in Spinach

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    Press release: “FDA is announcing today that all spinach implicated in the current outbreak has traced back to Natural Selection Foods LLC of San Juan Bautista, California. This determination is based on epidemiological and laboratory evidence obtained by multiple states and coordinated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Natural Selection Foods issued a… Continue Reading

    FTC Testifies on Protecting Consumers' Telephone Records

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    Press release: “The Federal Trade Commission today told the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations that protecting the privacy of consumers’ telephone records requires a multi-faceted approach. Joel Winston, Associate Director of FTC’s Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, said that coordinated law enforcement efforts targeting pretexters, steps by telephone… Continue Reading

    Government Reform Minority Office Posts Abramoff Investigation Website

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    Press release, Friday, September 29, 2006: “Following Mr. Abramoff’s guilty plea in January, President Bush and other top White House officials issued repeated statements that Mr. Abramoff was a virtual stranger to the White House. The documents reviewed by the Committee tell a different story. They show that between January 2001 and March 2004, there… Continue Reading