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You can read the speech he made before the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference on June 21, 2007. According to Gen. Hayden:
...we have completed our declassification review and are preparing to release most of the so-called “Family Jewels,” a very famous set of documents written over three decades ago, when Director Schlesinger asked employees to report activities they thought might be inconsistent with the Agency’s charter. Much of it has been in the press before, and most of it is unflattering, but it is CIA’s history.
Report to the President on Issues Raised by the Virginia Tech Tragedy
http://www.evergreen.edu/library/govdocs/pdf/dhhs/vatech-report.pdf
http://www.hhs.gov/vtreport.html
The report finds that educators, mental-health officials, and law-enforcement officers often do not share information about troubled students because they are confused by what they can disclose under complex and overlapping privacy laws. The report calls on the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services to issue guidelines clarifying how colleges, police departments, and social-service agencies can share information legally under current federal laws governing student records. The federal agencies should study whether the laws should be changed to balance students' privacy with safety concerns, the report said. State officials also should review state limits on the exchange of information to see if they need to be better explained or altered.
]]>During debate two weeks ago in the U.S. House of Representatives, the
House accepted a number of amendments that cut proposed funding for the
Census Bureau for Fiscal Year 2007 by approximately $60 million. The
action now shifts to the Senate, where the Senate Commerce, Justice,
Science Appropriations Subcommittee is expected to mark up its version
of the bill today, and the full Senate Appropriations Committee will
consider the same bill on Thursday, July 13. If your Senator is listed
below, I encourage you to contact him or her
and ask them to support the Administration's Fiscal Year 2007 request
for the Census Bureau, $878 million, and reject any amendments that
would cut proposed funding for the Census Bureau in Fiscal Year 2007.
As members of the Census Project, the PAA and APC signed onto a letter
to the Senate Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Subcommittee
members, asking them to support the Administration's request. If you
would like to review a copy of this letter as background, it is located
at:
http://www.thecensusproject.org/Appropriations%20ltr-July06-Senate.pdf.
Majority Members
Senator Thad Cochran (MS) (Chairman, Full Committee)
Senator Richard Shelby (Chairman, Subcommittee) (AL)
Senator Judd Gregg (NH) Senator Ted Stevens (AK)
Senator Arlen Specter (PA)
Senator Conrad Burns (MT)
Senator Robert Bennett (UT)
Senator Larry Craig (ID)
Senator Mike DeWine (OH)
Senator Wayne Allard (CO) Senator Pete Domenici (NM)
Senator Mitch McConnell (KY)
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX)
Senator Sam Brownback (KS)
Senator Christopher Bond (MO)
Minority Members
Senator Barbara Mikulski (Ranking Member) (MD)
Senator Harry Reid (NV)
Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA)
Senator Richard Durbin (IL)
Senator Tim Johnson (SD)
Senator Mary Landrieu (LA) Senator Daniel Inouye (HI)
Senator Patrick Leahy (VT)
Senator Herb Kohl (WI)
Senator Patty Murray (WA)
Senator Tom Harkin (IA) Senator Byron Dorgan (ND)
Senator Robert Bryd (WVA) Your senators' contact information is available at:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Thank you!
Mary Jo Hoeksema
Public Affairs Specialist
Population Association of America/
Association of Population Centers
1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 520
Washington, D.C. 20009
(202) 939-5456
paaapc@crosslink.net
Draft general management plan, environmental impact statement, Olympic National Park, Washington
National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior
Published in May 2006
Location: TESC Government Documents
Call number: I 29.79/3:OL 9/3/DRAFT
August 14:
Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
411 Tillicum Lane
Forks, WA
(360) 374-6131
2 pm - 4 pm; 5 pm - 8 pm
August 16:
Timberland Library, Amanda Park
6118 U.S. Highway 101
Amanda Park, WA
(360) 288-2725
5 pm - 8 pm
August 17:
Sekiu Community Hall
60 Rice Street
Sekiu, WA
(360) 963-2329
5 pm - 8 pm
August 18:
Vern Burton Main Hall
308 East 4th Street
Port Angeles, WA
(360) 417-4550
2 pm - 4 pm; 5 pm - 8 pm
August 21:
Carrie Blake Park--Guy Cole Hall
202 North Blake Street
Sequim, WA
(360) 683-4139
5 pm - 8 pm
August 22:
Ridgetop Junior High School Cafeteria
10600 Hillsboro Drive NW
Silverdale, WA
(360) 662-1635
5 pm - 8 pm
August 23:
Shelton Civic Center
525 West Cota Street
Shelton, WA
(360) 426-2842
5 pm - 8 pm
August 24:
Seattle REI
222 Yale Avenue N
Seattle, WA
(360) 223-1944
WHOSE AMERICAN DREAM?: A Dialogue About Immigration, Race & Public Policy
Monday May 22, 2006
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Traditions Café
300 5th Ave SW, Olympia
Potluck immediately following
FREE
Nearest bus routes: #41, #44, and #48
Please join Lisa Seifert, nationally recognized expert on Immigration Law; Larry Mosqueda, Instructor in Political Economy and Social Change at The Evergreen State College; and Grace Chang, Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara and author of “Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Workers in a Global Economy”
Requests for reasonable accommodation and interpretation welcome.
No inquiries will be made about participants’ documentation status.
This community forum may be photographed or videotaped
For more information please contact Joelle Brouner via e-mail at joellebrouner@earthlink.net
]]>More about OMB Watch at: http://www.ombwatch.org/article/archive/269
Following is a story from the OMB Watch website released
Save the Toxic Release Inventory
Congress is about to vote on an amendment that would stop the EPA from destroying our nation's premier tool for public notification about toxic pollution.
The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) annually provides communities with details about the amount of toxic chemicals released into the air, land, and water. The information enables groups and individuals to press companies to reduce their pollution, resulting in safer, healthier communities.
Late last year, EPA proposed three changes to TRI, each of which would leave you in the dark about dangerous pollution in your community. The agency wants to:
* Cut this successful annual program in half by eliminating every other year of reporting;
* Allow companies to pollute ten times as much before being required to report the details about how much toxic pollution was produced and where it went;
* Permit facilities to hide information on low production of persistent bioacculuative toxins (PBTs), which are dangerous even in small quantities because they are toxic, persist in the environment, and build up in people's bodies.
The Pallone-Solis Toxic Right-To-Know Amendment to the Interior Appropriations Bill (that decides funding levels for the EPA) would prohibit the EPA from spending any money to implement the changes. By using the "power of the purse strings," lawmakers could stop the dangerous cuts.
Tell your representative to support the Pallone-Solis Toxic Right-To-Know Amendment and stop the EPA from moving forward with these dangerous proposals. Congress needs to know how much you care about this program.
The page for the news release also has a petition you can sign at: http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/ombwatch/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=3766
To find out who your representatives in Congress are, go to:
U.S. House of Representatives
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml
U.S. Senate
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
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