“In connection with a markup scheduled by the Senate Committee on Finance for July 17, 2007, the Joint Committee on Taxation has issued Description Of The Revenue Provisions For Markup Of The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (JCX-43-07), and the estimated revenue effects (JCX-44-07) In connection with a hearing scheduled by the Senate Committee on… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: July 2007
New GAO Reports: DHS Recruitment and Retention and DOD National Security Personnel System
Homeland Security: DHS’s Actions to Recruit and Retain Staff and Comply with the Vacancies Reform Act, GAO-07-758, July 16, 2007 Human Capital: DOD Needs Better Internal Controls and Visibility over Costs for Implementing Its National Security Personnel System, GAO-07-851, July 16, 2007 Continue Reading
Chapters from Forthcoming Book on Patents As Property Rights
Innovation at Risk, a forthcoming book from Princeton University Press by James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer. The following content is currently available online: Synopisis If You Cant Tell the Boundaries, Then It Aint Property Abstract Patents and Software Continue Reading
DHS OIG Marshals Service's Workforce Planning and Management Audit
The United States Marshals Service’s Workforce Planning and Management, Audit Report 07-38, July 2007 (102 pages, redacted for public release) Continue Reading
Second Quarter Earnings Reports from Major Companies
WSJ free feature – Earnings cheat sheets Q2 07: “See what to expect as companies report quarterly earnings.” See also New Feature at Markets Data Center: Historical Tables Now you can use an archive of past editions of more than 30 of the most popular tables in Markets Data Center.” Continue Reading
WSJ Reports on 2008 Presidential Money Race
WSJ free feature: “Compare fund-raising by Clinton, Giuliani, McCain, Obama and other major candidates, in this interactive graphic. Second-quarter data.” Continue Reading
Committee Objects to Withholding of Tillman Documents
Follow up to previous postings on matters related to the death of Corporal Patrick Tillman, on July 13, 2007 “Chairman Waxman and Ranking Minority Member Davis sent a letter to the White House objecting to the withholding of documents related to the death of U.S. Army Corporal Patrick Tillman, who was killed by friendly fire… Continue Reading
Interview With FTC Chairwoman Includes Issues of Privacy and Fraud
sfgate.com – ON THE RECORD: DEBORAH MAJORAS CHAIRWOMAN, FTC: “She shares her thoughts on what her agency can — and cannot — do on everything from mergers to fraud to privacy to gas prices to infomercials,” Sunday, July 15, 2007 Continue Reading
President's Intelligence Oversight Board Sent No Reports to AG for Over 5 Years
The Washington Post reports that the President’s Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB), (see Executive Order 12334, December 4, 1981) … “did not send any reports to the attorney general of legal violations during the first 5 1/2 years of the Bush administration’s counterterrorism effort…” “The President’s Intelligence Oversight Board (lOB) was established by President Gerald Ford… Continue Reading
Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman's 2007 Annual Report
Press release: “On June 11, 2007, Mr. Prakash Khatri, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman (CISOMB) delivered the 2007 Annual Report to Congress. The Ombudsmans annual reports focus on identifying systemic issues that cause delay in granting immigration benefits as well as pervasive and serious problems faced by individuals and… Continue Reading
Scholars Discuss Impeachment, Congress and the Constitution
Bill Moyers Journal, July 13, 2007: “Bill Moyers gets perspective on the role of impeachment in American political life from Constitutional scholar Bruce Fein, who wrote the first article of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, and THE NATION’s John Nichols, author of THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT.” Related links: WATCH MOYERS ON IMPEACHMENT More on the… Continue Reading
Secrecy and U.S. Satellite Reconnaissance, 1958-1976
Press release: “Throughout the 1960s and most of the 1970s, while the U.S. government conducted its space reconnaissance program under a veil of absolute secrecy, officials debated whether information about the program (including the “fact of” its existence and certain photographs) should be disclosed to other elements of the government, public, allies, and even the… Continue Reading
