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FDA's Authority to Ensure That Drugs Prescribed to Children Are Safe and Effective

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CRS Report, FDA’s Authority to Ensure That Drugs Prescribed to Children Are Safe and Effective, May 1, 2007.

  • “The Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act (BPCA, P.L. 107-109) and the Pediatric Research Equity Act (PREA, P.L. 108-155) allow the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to offer financial and regulatory incentives to manufacturers for testing their products for pediatric use. Unless Congress acts, both programs will end on October 1, 2007. FDA has approved for adult use many products never tested in children. Yet clinicians often prescribe them for children believing that the safety and effectiveness demonstrated with adults would hold for younger patients. However, this off-label prescribing results in children receiving ineffective drugs or too much or too little of a potentially useful drug. Some side effects are unique to children, or children of specific ages, including effects on growth and development.”

    • Successful Use of Information from the Private Financial Sector

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    The Successful Use of Information from the Private Financial Sector – Salvador Hernandez, Deputy Assistant Director, Criminal Investigative Division, FBI, Before the House Committee on Financial Services, May 10, 2007: “The analysis of financial records generated by the private financial services sector provides law enforcement and the intelligence community real opportunities to proactively identify criminal… Continue Reading

    Oversight Hearing on the United States Department of Justice

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    House Judiciary Committee Oversight Hearing on the United States Department of Justice, May 10, 2007 Statement of Chairman John Conyers, Jr. Committee on the Judiciary Hearing on DOJ Authorization/Oversight (Attorney General Gonzales) May 10, 2007 Statement of Alberto Gonzales Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice, May 10, 2007 (26 pages, PDF) Friedrich Transcript Excerpt Related… Continue Reading

    Hearing on Deficiencies in State and Federal Gun Purchase Laws

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    “On Thursday, May 10..the Domestic Policy Subcommittee…evaluate[d] incompleteness in the federal database used for checking the criminal and mental health records of gun purchasers, as well as the inconsistencies in state compliance with federal gun purchase laws. The hearing…address[ed] inconsistencies among the states in their supplemental gun prohibition laws. The hearing…concern[ed] state compliance with the… Continue Reading

    White Collar Crime Prosecutions Lowest in Five Years

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    “In January 2007, there were 490 federal prosecutions of white collar crime, according to timely enforcement data from the Justice Department. Filings in this category are down 13% from the previous month, reaching their lowest level in the last five years….Reports on the latest enforcement trends.” [Jeff Lamicela, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)] Continue Reading

    Seventh Circuit Practitioner's Handbook Posted on Judicary Wiki

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    The Wiki of The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit provides Electronic Access to Seventh Circuit Case Information, Rules, Procedures and Opinions. This is the first public wiki launched by the federal judiciary. According to Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook, who spearheaded the wiki project, and reported by the National Law Journal, “The… Continue Reading

    Infrastructure 2007 – A Global Perspective

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    Infrastructure 2007 – A Global Perspective, Urban Land Institute (69 pages, PDF): “Today, more than ever before, the ability to build, maintain, and finance infrastructure has become a crisis for communities around the world. Infrastructure is the skeleton around which the city is built. Ranging from radial hub and spoke systems, new town centers, villages,… Continue Reading

    State Legislators Comment on Real ID Act

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    Governors and State Legislators Submit Comments on the Draft Regulations to Implement the Real ID Act, May 8, 2007 DHS’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee Comment on the Real ID, May 7, 2007 FCW.com reports that the DHS Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee announced at a May 7, 2007 meeting that “cannot endorse… Continue Reading

    Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008

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    House Report 110-131, May 7, 2007: The Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 2082) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes, having… Continue Reading