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May 10, 2007
Headlines - FDA's Authority to Ensure That Drugs Prescribed to Children Are Safe and Effective
- Successful Use of Information from the Private Financial Sector
- VA OIG Report Reviews Action Items Pertaining to Suicide Preventation
- Oversight Hearing on the United States Department of Justice
- Hearing on Deficiencies in State and Federal Gun Purchase Laws
- Seventh Circuit Practitioner's Handbook Posted on Judicary Wiki
- Pew Survey Asks Are Americans Ready to Elect a Female President?
- Infrastructure 2007 - A Global Perspective
- State Legislators Comment on Real ID Act
- TIME Profiles People Who Shape Our World
- Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008
 FDA's Authority to Ensure That Drugs Prescribed to Children Are Safe and Effective CRS Report, FDA's Authority to Ensure That Drugs Prescribed to Children Are Safe and Effective, May 1, 2007. "The Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act (BPCA, P.L. 107-109) and the Pediatric Research Equity Act (PREA, P.L. 108-155) allow the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to offer financial and regulatory incentives to manufacturers for testing their products for pediatric use. Unless Congress acts, both programs will end on October 1, 2007. FDA has approved for adult use many products never tested in children. Yet clinicians often prescribe them for children believing that the safety and effectiveness demonstrated with adults would hold for younger patients. However, this off-label prescribing results in children receiving ineffective drugs or too much or too little of a potentially useful drug. Some side effects are unique to children, or children of specific ages, including effects on growth and development." Successful Use of Information from the Private Financial Sector The Successful Use of Information from the Private Financial Sector - Salvador Hernandez, Deputy Assistant Director, Criminal Investigative Division, FBI, Before the House Committee on Financial Services, May 10, 2007: "The analysis of financial records generated by the private financial services sector provides law enforcement and the intelligence community real opportunities to proactively identify criminal enterprises and terrorist networks and disrupt their nefarious designs." Oversight Hearing on the United States Department of Justice House Judiciary Committee Oversight Hearing on the United States Department of Justice, May 10, 2007 Statement of Chairman John Conyers, Jr. Committee on the Judiciary Hearing on DOJ Authorization/Oversight (Attorney General Gonzales) May 10, 2007 Statement of Alberto Gonzales Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice, May 10, 2007 (26 pages, PDF) Friedrich Transcript Excerpt Related postings on U.S. Attorney firings Murray Waas, National Law Journal, May 10, 2007 - article discusses new information on e-mails and documents pertaining to the attorney firings that to date have not been provided to Congress. Hearing on Deficiencies in State and Federal Gun Purchase Laws "On Thursday, May 10..the Domestic Policy Subcommittee...evaluate[d] incompleteness in the federal database used for checking the criminal and mental health records of gun purchasers, as well as the inconsistencies in state compliance with federal gun purchase laws. The hearing...address[ed] inconsistencies among the states in their supplemental gun prohibition laws. The hearing...concern[ed] state compliance with the Gun Control Act of 1968, including states' obligations under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993 to report "prohibited persons" to the National Instant Check System (NICS). It...also address[ed] various state-law firearm restrictions beyond those required by federal law, including purchase and possession prohibitions for certain individuals in the following categories: individuals under mental health care or evaluation, individuals restrained by protective or restraining orders, and former juvenile offenders." [this link includes written statements of witnesses] Seventh Circuit Practitioner's Handbook Posted on Judicary Wiki The Wiki of The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit provides Electronic Access to Seventh Circuit Case Information, Rules, Procedures and Opinions. This is the first public wiki launched by the federal judiciary. According to Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook, who spearheaded the wiki project, and reported by the National Law Journal, "The wiki will welcome comments from lawyers across the nation because issues of federal practice, especially in the appellate courts, are common ones..." Infrastructure 2007 - A Global Perspective Infrastructure 2007 - A Global Perspective, Urban Land Institute (69 pages, PDF): "Today, more than ever before, the ability to build, maintain, and finance infrastructure has become a crisis for communities around the world. Infrastructure is the skeleton around which the city is built. Ranging from radial hub and spoke systems, new town centers, villages, corridors and endless sprawl, infrastructure dictates how we move people and goods. As public funds dwindle, and support through taxation becomes an unviable solution, the private sector, awash in investment capital and looking for secure assets is coming to the rescue. Urban infrastructure has begun to develop as a major investment class promising both an income and capital return." State Legislators Comment on Real ID Act Governors and State Legislators Submit Comments on the Draft Regulations to Implement the Real ID Act, May 8, 2007 DHS's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee Comment on the Real ID, May 7, 2007 FCW.com reports that the DHS Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee announced at a May 7, 2007 meeting that "cannot endorse the Real ID Act or the notice of proposed rulemaking at this time." Related postings on Real ID Act
Via EPIC: "The Department of Homeland Security has received more than 12,000 comments on its draft implementation regulations for the REAL ID Act, even though the comment process was marked with problems. REAL ID faces considerable opposition by the public, the States and in Congress. More than 60 organizations and 215 blogs joined a campaign against the national identification system. Washington (pdf) and Montana (pdf) have opt-outed of REAL ID completely. Arkansas (pdf), Colorado (pdf), Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, and North Dakota have passed resolutions opposing REAL ID." See also "Will REAL ID Actually Make Us Safer? An Examination of Privacy and Civil Liberties Concerns" Senate Judiciary Committee, May 8, 2007, with links to member statements and testimony
TIME Profiles People Who Shape Our World The People Who Shape Our World: "Here's our list of the 100 men and women whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the world." Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 House Report 110-131, May 7, 2007: The Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to whom was referred the bill ( H.R. 2082) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass.
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