Post-Government Employment Restrictions and Foreign Agent Registration: Additional Action Needed to Enhance Implementation of Requirements, GAO-08-855, July 30, 2008 Examples of Job Hopping by Commercial Drivers After Failing Drug Tests, GAO-08-829R, June 30, 2008 Veterans Affairs: Health Information System Modernization Far from Complete; Improved Project Planning and Oversight Needed, GAO-08-805, June 30, 2008 Food Stamp… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: July 2008
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Politicized Hiring at the Department of Justice
Follow up to July 28, 2008 Investigation of Allegations of Politicized Hiring by Monica Goodling and Other Staff in the Office of the Attorney General, the Statement of Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Hearing concerning Politicized Hiring at the Department of Justice, July 30,… Continue Reading
Testing the Waters 2008: A Guide to Water Quality at Vacation Beaches
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): “NRDC’s annual survey of water quality and public notification at U.S. beaches finds that pollution caused the number of beach closings and advisories to hit their second-highest level in the 18-year history of the report. The number of 2007 closing and advisory days at ocean, bay, and Great Lakes beaches… Continue Reading
Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 Report Available Online
The text of the Conference Report for H.R. 4040, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (183 pages, PDF). August 15, 2008 news release: “Bipartisan legislation was signed into law on Thursday that protects children and consumers from toxic toys and other dangerous products by strengthening the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and providing… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com – Legal Research Training for Summer Associates
Reference from Coast to Coast: Summer Musings – Jan Bissett and Margi Heinen provide a timely and valuable refresher on a range of well-sourced, reliable, topical websites, guides, print and program materials useful for summer associate legal research training. Continue Reading
FTC Report Sheds New Light on Food Marketing to Children and Adolescents
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission today announced the results of a study on food marketing to children and adolescents. The report, Marketing Food to Children and Adolescents: A Review of Industry Expenditures, Activities, and Self-Regulation [see also Appendices A-F], finds that 44 major food and beverage marketers spent $1.6 billion to promote their products… Continue Reading
NASA and Internet Archive Launch Historical Online Library of Images, Video, Audio
NASA Images is a service of Internet Archive, a non-profit library, to offer public access to NASA’s images, videos and audio collections. NASA Images is constantly growing with the addition of current media from NASA as well as newly digitized media from the archives of the NASA Centers. The goal of NASA Images is to… Continue Reading
HUD's Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress
Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Community Planning and Development – The Third Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, July 29, 2008 (144 pages, PDF) “…on a single night in January 2007, there were 671,888 sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons nationwide. At this point in time, nearly two-thirds of the nations homeless population… Continue Reading
Alaska Senator Ted Stevens Indicted In Probe of Corruption
DOJ press release: “United States Senator Theodore F. Stevens of Alaska was charged today in an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia with seven counts of making false statements related to Stevens financial disclosure forms, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division announced. The seven-count indictment… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: DOD Financial Management, Human Rights, Medicare Part D, Bankruptcy Reform
DOD Financial Management: Adjudication of Butterbaugh Claims for the Restoration of Annual Leave or Pay, GAO-08-948R, July 28, 2008 Financial Management: DOD’s Ability to Prevent, Identify, Investigate, and Report on Antideficiency Act Violations, GAO-08-941R, July 28, 2008 Human Rights: U.S. Government’s Efforts to Address Alleged Abuse of Household Workers by Foreign Diplomats with Immunity Could… Continue Reading
Combating Terrorism Center at West Point Report on al-Qa'ida
Bombers, Bank Accounts, and Bleedout: al-Qa’ida’s Road in and Out of Iraq, July 22, 2008 (126 pages. PDF): “The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point (CTC) launched the Harmony Project in order to release and analyze documents from the Department of Defenses classified Harmony Datbase. The Harmony Project unearths and releases documents that reveal the… Continue Reading
The Seoul Declaration for the Future of the Internet Economy
OECD Ministerial Meeting — The Future of the Internet Economy, Seoul, Korea, 17-18 June 2008. Shaping Policies for Creativity, Confidence and Convergence in the Digital World The Seoul Declaration for the Future of the Internet Economy Chair’s Summary Shaping policies for the future of the Internet economy Shaping policies for the future of the Internet… Continue Reading
