Emergency Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Audit of National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ Award Process for a Contract With MDB, Inc. (A-04-06-01036), January 11, 2007. Emergency Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Audit of National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ Award Process for a Contract With Organization Development Systems, Inc. (A-04-06-01034), January 11,… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2007
Postal Service 2006 Annual Progress Report Available Online
Follow-up to January 10, 2007 posting, U.S. Postal Service: ‘Intelligent Mail’ Fully Operational by 2009, see today’s press release: “The U.S. Postal Service has achieved remarkable results and is better prepared than ever to help ensure a prosperous future for mail, according to a progress report on the organization’s transformation efforts. The 2006 Annual Progress… Continue Reading
Lantos Introduces Bill to Preserve Family Records of Descendants of Slaves
Press release, January 11, 2007: “Congressman Tom Lantos (D-San Mateo, San Francisco) today introduced legislation to ensure that many of the genealogical records involving the families of former slaves in this country will be preserved, digitized and catalogued…Unlike most Americans, researching African-Americans family histories from the 19th Century has been hampered by the lack of… Continue Reading
FirstGov is Now USA.gov
“In January 2007, FirstGov.gov announced that it changed its name to USA.gov. We did it because you asked us to. Feedback from the public told us that we need a name that is easier to understand and remember.” The FAQ is here. It includes the following important statement: “There are about 5 million links to… Continue Reading
State of Missouri Launched Website to Compare Rx and OTC Prices
“MoRx Price Compare lists prescription medication prices for the most commonly used prescription drugs in Missouri based on the usual and customary price reported by local pharmacies. This is the retail price an uninsured, cash-paying customer would normally pay without any discounts. Prescription drug prices may vary from day to day. The price you find… Continue Reading
Citizens Group Sues NARA For Access to White House Visitor Logs
Press release, January 10, 2007: “Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sued the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for its failure to adequately respond to CREW’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents related to the destruction of Secret Service visitor record logs. On September 27, 2006, CREW filed a… Continue Reading
Historic Declassification of FBI Records Includes Delay For Public Access
Press release: “Imagine a library filled with a million books, each 270 pages long. That’s how many historic FBI pages we declassified on December 31, in line with an executive order that now applies to the Bureau. “It’s unprecedented,” says David Hardy, chief of the Record/Information Dissemination Section in our Records Management Division. “To historians… Continue Reading
Interim Report on the Administrative Law, Process and Procedure Project for the 21st Century
Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Admnistrative and Commmercial Law, Print No. 10, Interim Report on the Administrative Law, Process and Procedure Project for the 21st Century, December 2006. [NOTE: this document is 1446 pages long]. Continue Reading
Senator Feinstein Reintroduces Bills Aimed At Thwarting ID Theft
Press release: “U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today reintroduced two bills [Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act and the Social Security Number Misuse Prevention Act] aimed at protecting individuals from identity theft by requiring businesses to notify consumers in the event of a security breach and prohibiting the sale or display of an individuals… Continue Reading
National Archives and Footnote Launch Project to Digitize Historic Documents
Press release: “Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein and Footnote, Inc. CEO Russell Wilding today announced an agreement to digitize selected records from the vast holdings of the National Archives. The 4.5 million pages that have been digitized so far are now available at http://www.footnote.com/nara.php.” Press release from OpenTheGovernment.org: “On January 10, 2007, the… Continue Reading
FTC/DOJ Hearings on Single-Firm Conduct to Continue in Berkeley and Chicago
Press release: “The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division today announced that the latest in a series of joint public hearings designed to examine the implications of single-firm conduct under the antitrust laws will take place on January 30, 2007, in Berkeley, California, and on February 13, 2007, in Chicago,… Continue Reading
DOJ OIG Report on Customs and Border Protection Financial Statements
Independent Auditors’ Report On CBP’s FY 2006 Consolidated Financial Statements, OIG-07-19 (PDF, 82 pages), January 10, 2007. Continue Reading
