News release: “A judge ordered the government Thursday to release more records about the lobbying campaign to provide immunity to the telecommunications giants that participated in the NSA’s warrantless surveillance program. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White ordered the records be provided to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) by October 9, 2009. The decision is… Continue Reading
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Expedited CARD Reform for Consumers Act of 2009
News release: “Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), author of the credit card reform bill signed earlier this year by President Obama, and Barney Frank (D-MA), Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, today introduced legislation which changes the effective date for the reforms in that bill to December 1, 2009. H.R. 3639, the Expedited CARD Reform… Continue Reading
Additional Information on Insurance Coverage for Unauthorized Immigrants Under Proposed Health Care Legislation
CBO: Additional Information on Insurance Coverage for Unauthorized Immigrants Under Proposed Health Care Legislation, September 22, 2009 – Letter to the Honorable Chuck Grassley “Under current law, CBO projects that the non elderly unauthorized immigrant population will total about 14 million in 2019. Of those individuals, nearly 60 percent (about 8 million) will be uninsured.… Continue Reading
DHA OIG Audit of TSA Privacy Stewardship
OIG-09-97 – Transportation Security Administration Privacy Stewardship (PDF, 36 pages), August 28, 2009 “We performed an audit of the Transportation Security Administrations (TSA) privacy stewardship. Our audit objective was to determine whether TSAs plans and activities instill and promote a privacy culture and comply with federal privacy laws and regulations. As part of this audit,… Continue Reading
JUSTICE Act Would Fix Long Standing Problems with PATRIOT Act and Other Surveillance Laws
News release and Fact Sheet: “U.S. Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Jon Tester (D-MT), Tom Udall (D-NM), Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Daniel Akaka (D-HI) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) have introduced legislation to fix problems with surveillance laws that threaten the rights and liberties of American citizens. The Judicious Use of Surveillance… Continue Reading
Preliminary Analysis of Specifications for the Chairman's Mark of the America's Healthy Future Act
Senate Finance Committee: Baucus Releases Americas Healthy Future Act Chairmans Mark – Americas Healthy Future Act of 2009 Scheduled for Markup By the Senate Committee on Finance On September 22, 2009 [223 pages, PDF] 9-16-09 JCT Analysis of the America’s Healthy Future Act 9-16-09: Finance Committee Memo on Estimates of the Americas Health Future Act… Continue Reading
Council of Economic Advisors: Economic Impact of American Recovery Act
Council of Economic Advisors: Economic Impact of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 – First Quarterly Report, September 10, 2009. “Among the key finding of the study are: As of the end of August, $151.4 billion of the original $787 billion has been outlaid or has gone to American taxpayers and businesses in the… Continue Reading
Clean Water Act Violations: The Enforcement Record
New York Times: Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost to Health “Across the nation, the system that Congress created to protect the nations waters under the Clean Water Act of 1972 today often fails to prevent pollution. The New York Times has compiled data on more than 200,000 facilities that have permits to… Continue Reading
President's Speech on Health Insurance Reform
White House: “Tonight the President will make clear to Congress exactly what he would like to see in the health insurance reform legislation that gets sent to his desk. With four out of five committees in Congress having finished their work and the fifth announcing today that they are moving forward, more progress has been… Continue Reading
FDA Opens the Reportable Food Registry – Electronic Portal for Industry
“The Reportable Food Registry (RFR or the Registry) is an electronic portal for Industry to report when there is reasonable probability that an article of food will cause serious adverse health consequences. The Registry helps the FDA better protect public health by tracking patterns and targeting inspections. The Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of… Continue Reading
GPO Releases 8 new collections into the Federal Digital System
The Government Printing Office (GPO) is pleased to announce the release of 8 new collections into the Federal Digital System (FDsys). The new collections are: Congressional Directory (105th Congress to present) Congressional Record (Bound) (1999 to 2001) Congressional Record Index (Daily) (1983 to Present) Economic Report of the President (1996 to present) GAO Reports and… Continue Reading
Remarks by the Vice President on the 200 Days of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Remarks by the Vice President on the 200 Days of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: “First, we had to stabilize the financial system. We took the unpopular but necessary step of rescuing the banks. And now, although there’s a long way to go, eight out of 10 of the largest financial institutions in America… Continue Reading
