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- Homeland Security: Department Organization and Management—Implementation Phase
- This report provides an overview of the implementation phase of the department organization and management of the Homeland Security.
- Secrecy Versus Openness: New Proposed Arrangements for Balancing Competing Needs
- During the latter half of 2004, disputes arose over whether or not to declassify portions of the sensitive content of reports resulting from congressional investigations and national commission inquiries into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the war in Iraq, and related matters. As a result, some called for Congress to create a special mechanism for the impartial and expeditious resolution of such disputes (S. 2672/H.R. 4855; S. 2845 amendment). This report discusses the culmination of one such effort at balancing legitimate competing needs for secrecy and openness.
- Presidential Directives: Background and Overview
- This report provides an overview of the different kinds of directives that have been utilized primarily by twentieth century Presidents. It presents background on their historical development, accounting, use, and effect.
- The Executive Office of the President: An Historical Overview
- This report provides an An Historical Overview about The Executive Office of the President. It consists of a group of federal agencies immediately serving the President.
- Access to Government Information In the United States
- The Constitution of the United States makes no specific allowance for any one of the co-equal branches to have access to information held by the others and contains no provision expressly establishing a procedure for, or a right of, public access to government information. Nonetheless, Congress has legislated various public access laws. These include two records access statutes — the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act — and two meetings access statutes — the Federal Advisory Committee Act and the Government in the Sunshine Act. This report provides background on the issue of government transparency and examines relevant litigation.
- Continuity of Government: Current Federal Arrangements and the Future
- This report reviews the public record concerning federal continuity of government arrangements.
- The Executive Office of the President: An Historical Overview
- This report provides an An Historical Overview about The Executive Office of the President. It consists of a group of federal agencies immediately serving the President.
- Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board: New Independent Agency Status
- This report examines initial responses to the 9/11 Commission's call for a board to oversee adherence to presidential guidelines on information sharing that safeguard the privacy of individuals about whom information is shared, and the implementation of this board.
- Executive Branch Reorganization and Management Initiatives: A Brief Overview
- This report provides a brief overview of recent executive branch reorganization actions and related management initiatives. It reviews the relevant plans and preparations of President-elect Barack Obama as the new Administration transitions to assuming management of the executive branch. Briefly examined, as well, are the organization and management efforts of the most recent regimes.
- Security Classification Policy and Procedure: E.O. 12958, as Amended
- This report describes security classification policy and procedure, largely prescribed in a series of successive presidential executive orders issued over the past 50 years. This policy provides the rationale and arrangements for designating information officially secret for reasons of national security, and for its declassification as well.
- National Emergency Powers: A Brief Overview of Presidential Suspensions of the Habeas Corpus Privilege and Invocations of Martial Law
- This report outlines martial law and the suspension of habeus corpus.
- Development and Organization of White House Conferences.
- This report presents the Development and Organization of White House Conferences. The first White House Conference was held in 1907 whereas the second White House Conference was held in 1909.
- National Emergency Powers
- This report describes Presidents emergency. Federal law provides a variety of powers for the President to use in response to crisis, exigency, or emergency circumstances threatening the nation. Moreover, they are not limited to military or war situations.
- Presidential Directives: Background and Overview
- This report provides an overview of the different kinds of directives that have primarily been utilized by twentieth-century Presidents. It includes background on the historical development, accounting, use, and effect of such directives.
- Public Printing Reform: Issues and Actions
- The Government Printing Office (GPO) is designated the principal agent for almost all federal government printing. This report reviews recent legal, management, policy, and technological challenges to the GPO printing system and public printing reform efforts of the 105th, 106th, and current Congresses, and tracks current efforts to address existing problems in this area.
- 9/11 Commission Recommendations: A Civil Liberties Oversight Board
- This report discusses the recommendation made by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission) regarding the creation of a board within the executive branch to oversee adherence to guidelines on, and the commitment to defend, civil liberties by the federal government.
- The Executive Office of the President: An Historical Overview
- This report provides an An Historical Overview about The Executive Office of the President. It consists of a group of federal agencies immediately serving the President.
- 9/11 Commission Recommendations: New Structures and Organization
- This report discusses proposals addressing shortcomings concerning civil liberties protection, development, intelligence community management. and intelligence expertise as well as implications assessment. This report displays a chronology of development about the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.
- Homeland Security: Department Organization and Management — Implementation Phass
- This report provides an overview of the implementation phase of the department organization and management of the Homeland Security.
- Executive Branch Reorganization and Management Initiatives
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- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Amendments: 110th Congress
- This report provides information about the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Amendments of 110th Congress where that statute specified nine categories of information that may be permissibly exempted from the rule of disclosure.
- Continuity of Government: Current Federal Arrangements and the Future
- This report reviews the public record concerning federal continuity of government arrangements. It will be updated to reflect significant developments.
- Executive Branch Reorganization and Management Initiatives: A Brief Overview
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- Homeland Security: Department Organization And Management—Legislative Phase
- This report provides an overview of the implementation phase of the department organization and management of the Homeland Security.
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Amendments: 109th Congress
- This report examines efforts to amend the FOI Act.
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Amendments: 110th Congress
- This report provides information about the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Amendments of 110th Congress where that statute specified nine categories of information that may be permissibly exempted from the rule of disclosure.
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Amendments: 110th Congress
- This report provides information about the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Amendments of 110th Congress where that statute specified nine categories of information that may be permissibly exempted from the rule of disclosure.
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Amendments: 110th Congress
- This report presents Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) amendments of 110th Congress.
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Amendments: 110th Congress
- No Description Available.
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Amendments: 109th Congress
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- Federal Presidential Libraries
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- Homeland Security: The Presidential Coordination Office
- This report reviews past experience -- principally with the Office of War Mobilization and its successor, the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion -- and its significance for OHS, as well as the administrative development of the new agency.
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Amendments: 109th Congress
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- Access to Government Information In the United States
- The Constitution of the United States makes no specific allowance for any one of the co-equal branches to have access to information held by the others and contains no provision expressly establishing a procedure for, or a right of, public access to government information. Nonetheless, Congress has legislated various public access laws. These include two records access statutes — the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act — and two meetings access statutes — the Federal Advisory Committee Act and the Government in the Sunshine Act. This report provides background on the issue of government transparency.
- The Administrating of the Freedom Information Act: A Brief Overview of Executive Branch Annual Reports for 1975
- This report contains information and explanation about the Freedom of Information Act, including statistics and tables.
- National Security Controls and Scientific Information
- This report is about National Security and Scientific Information
- The Executive Office Of the President: Some Background Information
- This report discusses the precursors, council of national defense organization, council operation, administrative management and many more.
- Executive Branch Reorganization and Management Initiatives: A Brief Overview
- This report provides a brief overview of recent executive branch reorganization actions and related management initiatives. It reviews the relevant plans and preparations of President-elect Barack Obama as the new Administration transitions to assuming management of the executive branch. Briefly examined, as well, are the organization and management efforts of the most recent regimes.
- 9/11 Commission Recommendations: A Civil Liberties Oversight Board
- From Summary: This report discusses recommendations made by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission) which include: "creation of a board within the executive branch to oversee adherence to guidelines on, and commitment to defend, civil liberties by the federal government."
- National Emergency Powers
- This report the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601-1651) that eliminated or modified some statutory grants of emergency authority, required the President to declare formally the existence of a national emergency and to specify what statutory authority, activated by the declaration, would be used, and provided Congress a means to countermand the President's declaration and the activated authority being sought.
- Executive Branch Reorganization
- This issue brief views reorganization as involving the alteration and relocation of both programs and the administrative structure of the executive branch for reasons of efficiency, economy, and direction. The underlying issue is who reorganizes--Congress or the President--and by what authority and, also, for what purpose? Some other related administrative and management reforms are tracked as well.
- Public Printing Reform: Issues and Actions
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- Executive Branch Reorganization
- This issue brief views reorganization as involving the alteration and relocation of both programs and the administrative structure of the executive branch for reasons of efficiency, economy, and direction. The underlying issue is who reorganizes--Congress or the President--and by what authority and, also, for what purpose? Some other related administrative and management reforms are tracked as well.
- Security Classified and Controlled Information: History, Status, and Emerging Management Issues
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- Security Classified and Controlled Information: History, Status, and Emerging Management Issues
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- Security Classified and Controlled Information: History, Status, and Emerging Management Issues
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- Security Classified and Controlled Information: History, Status, and Emerging Management Issues
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- Homeland Security: Department Organization and Management — Implementation Phase
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- Homeland Security: The Presidential Coordination Office
- This report reviews past experience—principally with the Office of War Mobilization and its successor, the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion—and its possible significance for OHS; it will be updated as events recommend.
- Government at the Dawn of the 21st Century: A Status Report
- This report examines the history of the government from beginning of the 20th century, as the federal government entered a new phase—the rise of the administrative state, then goes on to project possible trends for the future.