From the Washington Post:
President Bush’s future presidential library and public policy institute will be housed at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, officials announced yesterday, launching a project that could require hundreds of millions of dollars in private donations.
Archive of entries posted on February 2008
SMU to Host Bush’s Presidential Library
House Rules Offers Updates
From the Open House Project:
The House Rules Committee is making legislation a little easier to follow online, by voluntarily posting updates of special rules, as they are approved, to their website in a structured format. This means that you can receive updates on newly approved special rules that structure floor consideration for impending bills. They’re [...]
Toxic Release Inventory data available for 2006
From the EPA:
Information on the 2006 reporting year is now available as part of the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) database. Today marks the earliest release of the data in the 20-year history of the program. Improvements in electronic reporting and data processing have made this possible. Nation-wide chemical releases into the environment are down by [...]
U.S. Economic Indicators Web Site to Continue
From the U.S. Economic Indicators Web Site:
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA) has decided to continue the economicindicators.gov website. Featuring the economic releases from ESA’s Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), the site was started by this Administration in 2002 to give greater awareness to these economic statistics. ESA [...]
Democrats Seek to Narrow Secrets Law
From the Associated Press:
In a new challenge to President Bush’s use of executive power, Senate Democrats want to make the government produce evidence for a judge to review when it claims disclosing such information would endanger national security.
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s chairman is developing legislation aimed at reining in the administration’s use of a state [...]
F.B.I. Gained Unauthorized Access to E-Mail
From the New York Times:
A technical glitch gave the F.B.I. access to the e-mail messages from an entire computer network — perhaps hundreds of accounts or more — instead of simply the lone e-mail address that was approved by a secret intelligence court as part of a national security investigation, according to an internal report [...]
CDC Watering Down Great Lakes Report on Toxics
From OMB Watch:
After significantly delaying the release of a report that identifies alarming toxic health risks for the Great Lakes region, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now reportedly planning to release a substantially modified document.
OMB Reports $508 Million in E-Gov Savings; Congress Remains Doubtful
From OMB Watch:
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a report to Congress Feb. 14 that calculates the benefits of President Bush’s 24 E-Government (E-Gov) Initiatives at approximately $508 million in Fiscal Year 2007, based on agencies’ estimates. Congressional skepticism of the Initiatives, and subsequent reluctance to fund them, led OMB to develop a [...]
Army Says It Will Restore Public Access to Online Library
From the Washington Post:
The Army will restore public access to the largest online collection of its doctrinal publications within two weeks, an Army spokesman said yesterday.
Col. Michael J. Negard said the Army “underestimated the impact” of its decision to make the Reimer Digital Library password-protected on Feb. 6, a move that shut off public access [...]
Public Attitudes Toward Government Accountability and Transparency 2008
From the Association of Government Accountants:
In January 2008, the Association of Government Accountants (AGA) commissioned a study by leading market research firm Harris Interactive, to conduct the first in a series of annual surveys of public attitudes to government transparency and accountability. The objective of this first survey was to establish a baseline understanding of [...]