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• Statement of Project 21’s Deneen Borelli on ACORN Report

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 463
  or Release : December 23, 2009 Contact : David Almasi or Devon Carlin at (202) 543-4110 or e-mail project21@nationalcenter.org or Judy Kent at (703) 759-7476 Statement of Project 21’s Deneen Borelli on ACORN Report New York, NY: Statement of Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli on Congressional Research ...
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• Afghanistan: A Few Numbers You Might Want to Know About the War

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 591
  Jeremy Scahill of Rebel Reports offers some insight into the size and nature of Mr Obama’s War: A hearing in Sen. Claire McCaskill’s Contract Oversight  subcommittee in the US Congress] on contracting in Afghanistan has highlighted some important statistics that provide a window into the extent to which the ...
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• CRS Report on ACORN

  
  CRC Blog — Authority: 469
  The House Judiciary Committee has unveiled the Congressional Research Service report on ACORN. I’m on vacation now but I’ll go through it over coming days. These things have a way of disappearing over time so I’ve archived a copy of the report here . (PDF)
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• Investigation Finds ACORN Didnt Break Laws

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 783
  Filed under: Investigations , Voting A report commissioned by the House Judiciary Committee found ACORN, a community organizing group heavily criticized after an undercover video surfaced, has not violated any federal regulations. The study by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service found that ACORN ...
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• BREAKING: Second Investigaton Finds That ACORN Broke No Laws (UPDATED)

  
  Democrashield.com — Authority: 134
  A little more than two weeks after the Harshbarger commission concluded that ACORN broke no laws , another investigation–this time by the Congressional Research Service–came to the same conclusion:A Congressional Research Service report commissioned by the House Judiciary Committee says ACORN hasn’t violated ...
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• ACORN Properly Spent Federal Funds, Congressional Study Says

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 463
  The beleaguered community organizing group ACORN properly spent all federal dollars it received in the past five years, according to a study by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS).
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• Report Finds No Recent Funding Violations By ACORN

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 774
  ACORN has been investigated 46 times by federal, state, and local agencies as of October 2009, and 11 of those probes are still pending, according to a report by the Congressional Research Service released today. But the report finds no cases in which ACORN violated the terms of federal funding in the last five years. ...
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• CRS — The Rise of China’s Auto Industry and Its Impact on the U.S. Motor Vehicle Industry

  
  Docuticker — Authority: 152
  The Rise of China’s Auto Industry and Its Impact on the U.S. Motor Vehicle Industry (PDF; 312 KB) Source: Congressional Research Service (via Federation of American Scientists/Secrecy News) The automobile industry, a key sector in China’s industrialization and modernization efforts, has been developing ...
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• Conflict Heats Up Over Government’s Firing of Former Military Commission Prosecutor

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  The New York Times editorial board weighs in today in defense of Col. Morris Davis, the Air Force officer fired from the Congressional Research Service after he publicly criticized the government’s handling of Guantanamo detainee cases. That’s sure to ratchet up the pressure on CRS to reinstate Davis. Davis ...
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• Editorial: Fired for Speaking Out

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  A retired Air Force colonel who wrote about how detainees should be tried was unjustly fired by the Congressional Research Service.
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• DOD: Obamas Afghan Surge Will Rely Heavily On Private Contractors

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 774
  Private contractors will make up at least half of the total military workforce in Afghanistan going forward, according to Defense Department officials cited in a new congressional study. As President Obamas escalation of the war in Afghanistan unfolds, the number of contractors will likely jump by between 16,000 and ...
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• CRS — Lobbying the Executive Branch: Current Practices and Options for Change

  
  Docuticker — Authority: 152
  Lobbying the Executive Branch: Current Practices and Options for Change (PDF: 224 KB) Source: Congressional Research Service (via OpenCRS) Under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) of 1995, as amended, individuals are required to register with the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the ...
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• Government pays for 60% of all health care costs

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 446
  Did you know that the federal, state and local governments are responsible for 60% of health care spending in the United States? That’s the word according to the Congressional Research Service , as noted by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK): U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) released the following statement today ...
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• ACLU: Library of Congress Wrongly Fires Former Gitmo Lawyer Over Op-Eds

  
  On The Hill — Authority: 497
  The American Civil Liberties Union has sent a letter to the Library of Congress and the Congressional Research Service (CRS) on behalf of Col. Morris Davis, the former chief prosecutor for the Guantánamo military commissions, who was terminated from his job at CRS because of opinion pieces he wrote about the ...
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• A Closer Look at CRS’s Recent Report “Lobbying and the Executive Branch”

  
  Sunlight Foundation — Authority: 637
  The Congressional Research Service just released a report entitled “ Lobbying and the Executive Branch: Current Practices and Options for Change .” It reaches an unsupported conclusion about the effect of the administration’s lobbying disclosure rules, and also contains several factual and analytical errors. ...
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• Top Congressional Researcher Fired For Criticizing Decision On Gitmo Trials

  
  TPM LiveWire — Authority: 786
  Morris Davis, a top foreign policy researcher for the Congressional Research Service, has been fired after writing an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal that criticizes the Obama administrations decision to bring some Guantanamo detainees to trial, while others will face military commissions. In the November 10 ...
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• As Obama Sends More Troops, Giant Shadow Army Of Contractors Set To Grow In Afghanistan

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 774
  With President Obama addressing the nation tonight about a new escalation in Afghanistan, a perennially underexamined topic is once again receiving short shrift: the huge force of contractors, which as of June outnumbered the size of the U.S. troop presence itself, is likely to swell. The Administration seemingly ...
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• Oil, Oil Everywhere, and Not a Drop to Pump

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  If you had something you needed in your home, would you go to the store to buy it anyway? Of course not! Strangely, however, some members of Congress seem determined to push the country toward making this counterproductive choice.   The Congressional Research Service released a report at the end of October, “U.S. ...
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• Monday Morning News Kick Off: McCain Questions Work by Retired Generals; and is the U.S. Losing its Dominance?

  
  got geoint? — Authority: 469
  Now that everyone has shaken off the tryptophan side-effects from eating too much Thanksgiving turkey, we are ready to get focused and back to work. What better way to dive into the challenging work world than to read up on the latest news and headlines — beyond the Tiger Woods car crash (although it does seem a ...
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• CRS — Advertising Industry in the Digital Age

  
  Docuticker — Authority: 152
  Advertising Industry in the Digital Age (PDF; 309 KB) Source: Congressional Research Service (via Federation of American Scientists/Secrecy News) The advertising industry is a major sector of the U.S. economy, employing hundreds of thousands of workers and accounting for about 2% of the nation’s annual output, ...
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