Via Daniel Schuman, The Sunlight Foundation: “SCOUT is a new free alert service that allows you search and create email or text alerts on legislation shaping issues you care about in Congress and across all fifty states. Scout also makes it easy to search federal regulations and what is actually said by lawmakers in the… Continue Reading
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CRS – Unauthorized Alien Students: Issues and DREAM Act Legislation
Unauthorized Alien Students: Issues and DREAM Act Legislation, Andorra Bruno, Specialist in Immigration Policy, June 19, 2012 “Unauthorized aliens in the United States are able to receive free public education through high school. They may experience difficulty obtaining higher education, however, for several reasons. Among these reasons is a provision enacted in 1996 that prohibits… Continue Reading
Appropriations Committee Releases Fiscal Year 2013 Financial Services Appropriations Bill
News release: “The House Appropriations Committee today released the fiscal year 2013 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The bill provides annual funding for the Treasury Department, the Executive Office of the President, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, the Small Business Administration, the General Services Administration,… Continue Reading
Sunlight Foundation: Appropriators May Undercut Legislative Transparency
Daniel Schuman and Eric Mill: “House Appropriators may deal a tremendous blow to prospects for improving public access to legislative information. In a draft report expected to accompany the Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill for 2013…appropriators misunderstand how data can be “authenticated,” and kick responsibility for improving public access to legislative data to a non-public task… Continue Reading
Dodd-Frank Progress Report, June 2012 /DavisPolk
DavisPolk Regulatory Tracker, State of Play to Date, June 2012: “As of June 1, 2012, a total of 221 Dodd-Frank rulemaking requirement deadlines have passed. This is 55.5% of the 398 total rulemaking requirements, and 78.9% of the 280 rulemaking requirements with specified deadlines. Of these 221 passed deadlines, 148 (67.0%) have been missed and… Continue Reading
EFF – House Hearing on Warrantless Wiretapping and the FISA Amendments Act
News release: “This morning, the House Judiciary Committee held an important hearing on the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) and the scope of the NSAs warrantless wiretapping program. The FAA, which gutted privacy protections governing the interception international phone calls and e-mail to and from the United States, is set to expire at the end of… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve assembles inventory of historical materials on central banking in the United States
“The Federal Reserve System is preparing an inventory of historical materials (PDF) to enhance transparency through improved web access to records of the Federal Reserve’s past. The initiative is motivated by the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Federal Reserve Act in December 2013 and the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Federal… Continue Reading
Report – The Military Lending Act Five Years Later
The Military Lending Act Five Years Later – Impact On Servicemembers, the High-Cost Small Dollar Loan Market, and the Campaign against Predatory Lending, Jean Ann Fox, Consumer Federation of America – May 29, 2012 The Military Lending Act set an inclusive 36 percent annual rate cap for loans made to covered service members and their… Continue Reading
FTC Testifies on Efforts to Protect Consumer Privacy
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission testified before Congress about the agencys efforts to protect consumer privacy, including the FTCs support for implementation of a Do Not Track mechanism that would allow consumers to control the tracking of their online activities across websites, and other approaches recommended in its recent privacy report. In delivering Commission… Continue Reading
CRS – Intelligence Authorization Legislation: Status and Challenges
Intelligence Authorization Legislation: Status and Challenges – Richard F. Grimmett, Specialist in International Security. May 21, 2012 Continue Reading
CRS – Table Egg Production and Hen Welfare: The UEP-HSUS Agreement and H.R. 3798
Table Egg Production and Hen Welfare: The UEP-HSUS Agreement and H.R. 3798, May 14, 2012 “The United Egg Producers (UEP), the largest group representing egg producers, and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the largest animal protection group, have been adversaries for many years over the use of conventional cages in table egg… Continue Reading
Not Coming to America: Why the US is Falling Behind in the Global Race for Talent
Not Coming to America: Why the US is Falling Behind in the Global Race for Talent – May 22, 2012, “is a first-ever comparative study of the immigration reforms other countries employ to boost their economies and lure the high and low-skilled workers needed for continued economic growth. The report by the Partnership for a… Continue Reading
