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2006Q-0160763312Senate Historical Office 2006-10-03. hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Senate Historical Office hardcover
2003Q-037325041XRed Dress Ink 2003-12-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Red Dress Ink paperback
200664111Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2006. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Spine and cover has some discoloration. ii 314 p. 109th Congress 2d Session Senate Report 109-288. Calendar No. 527. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
200442876Washington DC: GPO 2004. very good. 546 wraps illus. GPO paperback
2026522175Imprimerie de Deltombe 2026. Reliure frottée en bordure texte en très bon état quelques très rares rousseurs a l'intérieur sinon sur pages de gardes. in-4. 2026. Relié. 218223 pages. Imprimerie de Deltombe unknown
200261975Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2002. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. vi 558 p. Includes illustrations. S. Hrg. 107-315. These hearings were on the interaction between our environmental regulations and our nation's energy policy. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
200658747Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2006. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Very good. v 1 390 pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. References. Tabular Data. No dust jacket as issued. S. Hrg. 108-504. This hearing examined very high levels of lead in the public water supply of the District of Columbia with particular emphasis to the risk posed to children. From the hearing remarks by Senator Warner the acting Chair "My constituents particularly in Arlington County and the city of Falls Church because they are the primary customers of the Washington Aqueduct System along with the District of Columbia. The facts of this situation as they have unfolded over the past 2 months are really very disturbing. It is even more disturbing however that we and the public became aware of this ongoing problem only after reports in the local media. Every one of the government officials sitting before us on the first panel the EPA the Corps the Water and Sewer Authority had some measure of knowledge that testing showed some level of lead. That level we will hear more about today and that that water was used for drinking. The levels we understand here on the committee exceeded the Federal action levels. The rest we know there was no immediate action taken even though that knowledge was in the hands of responsible government officials. We will have the opportunity today to give a full explanation of that. While performing research into premature pipe corrosion for the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority WASA in 2001 Marc Edwards an expert in plumbing corrosion discovered lead levels in the drinking water of Washington D.C. at least 83 times higher than the accepted safe limit. He found that the decision to change from chlorine to chloramine as a treatment chemical had caused the spike in lead levels. The contamination has left thousands of children with lifelong health risks and led to a re-evaluation of the use of monochloramine in public drinking-water systems. After the Washington Post ran a series of front-page articles about Edwards's findings resulting in widespread public concern the United States House of Representatives conducted an investigation. The House found that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC had made "scientifically indefensible" claims in a report that had indicated there was no risk from the high lead levels. The Post investigation uncovered evidence of widespread misreporting of lead levels at water agencies across the United States leading to regulatory crackdowns and changes in Environmental Protection Agency policies. The problem was addressed in 2004 by adding additional treatments to the water preventing the chloramine from dissolving lead in the water mains solder joints and plumbing fixtures. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
200562736Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2005. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. v 535 p. Includes illustrations. Occasional footnotes. S. Hrg. 109-544. This hearing looked at the issues of waste fraud and abuse which were seen as threatening both the financial sustainability and the quality of health care provided by Medicaid. In 2003 Medicaid was listed by the Government Accountability Office as a high-risk program. This hearing record contains a significant amount of data and a variety of perspectives. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
200866628Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2008. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket. iii 249 p. Illustrations. S. Hrg. 110-633. From Wikipedia: "The United States Department of Homeland Security DHS is a cabinet department of the United States federal government created in response to the September 11 attacks and with the primary responsibilities of protecting the United States of America and U.S. Territories including Protectorates from and responding to terrorist attacks man-made accidents and natural disasters. Despite the Department of the Interior's name DHS is the equivalent to the Interior ministries of other countries not the Department of the Interior. In fiscal year 2011 DHS was allocated a budget of $98.8 billion and spent net $66.4 billion. Where the Department of Defense is charged with military actions abroad the Department of Homeland Security works in the civilian sphere to protect the United States within at and outside its borders. Its stated goal is to prepare for prevent and respond to domestic emergencies particularly terrorism. On March 1 2003 DHS absorbed the Immigration and Naturalization Service and assumed its duties. In doing so it divided the enforcement and services functions into two separate and new agencies: Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Citizenship and Immigration Services. The investigative divisions and intelligence gathering units of the INS and Customs Service were merged forming Homeland Security Investigations. Additionally the border enforcement functions of the INS including the U.S. Border Patrol the U.S. Customs Service and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service were consolidated into a new agency under DHS: U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The Federal Protective Service falls under the National Protection and Programs Directorate. With more than 200 000 employees DHS is the third largest Cabinet department after the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. Homeland security policy is coordinated at the White House by the Homeland Security Council. Other agencies with significant homeland security responsibilities include the Departments of Health and Human Services Justice and Energy. According to the Homeland Security Research Corporation the combined financial year 2010 state and local HLS markets which employ more than 2.2 million first responders totaled $16.5 billion whereas the DHS HLS market totaled $13 billion. According to the Washington Post "DHS has given $31 billion in grants since 2003 to state and local governments for homeland security and to improve their ability to find and protect against terrorists including $3.8 billion in 2010." According to Peter Andreas a border theorist the creation of DHS constituted the most significant government reorganization since the Cold War and the most substantial reorganization of federal agencies since the National Security Act of 1947 which placed the different military departments under a secretary of defense and created the National Security Council and Central Intelligence Agency. DHS also constitutes the most diverse merger of federal functions and responsibilities incorporating 22 government agencies into a single organization." Also from Wikipedia: Michael Chertoff born November 28 1953 was the second United States secretary of homeland security under President George W. Bush and co-author of the USA PATRIOT Act. He previously served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit as a federal prosecutor and as Assistant U.S. Attorney General. He succeeded Tom Ridge as United States secretary of homeland security on February 15 2005. Since leaving government service Chertoff has worked as senior of counsel at the Washington D.C. law firm of Covington & Burling. He also co-founded the Chertoff Group a risk-management and security consulting company which employs several senior officials from his time as secretary of homeland security as well as Michael Hayden a former director of the National Security Agency and the Central. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
200964854Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2009. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor chip on front edge. iii 124 p. S. Hrg. 111-189. The hearing was called to recieve testimony on the incidence of suicides amongunited states servicemembers and initiatives within the Services and the Department of Defense to prevent military suicides. The Subcommittee was alarmed at the rising suicide rates by military servicemembers. The Chairman while recognizing the focused efforts underway felt that more needed to be done to prevent military suicides. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
200276905Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2002. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. iv 272 4 pages. S. Hrg. 107-622. The Chairman stated that these hearings were to begin its consideration of the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty SORT which the President submitted to the Senate on June 20 2002for its advice and consent to ratification. It was hoped that the treaty signed in May by Presidents Bush and Putin was a very important step forward in U.S>-Russian relations and toward a mores secure world. Cutting the number of each country's deployed strategic nuclear warheads from approximately 6000 to between 1700 and 2200 could move the U.S. another step away from the cold war preparations for massive nuclear exchange. The Treaty Between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions SORT also known as the Treaty of Moscow was a strategic arms reduction treaty between the United States and Russia that was in force from June 2003 until February 2011 when it was superseded by the New START treaty. At the time SORT was positioned as "representing an important element of the new strategic relationship" between the two countries with both parties agreeing to limit their nuclear arsenal to between 1700 and 2200 operationally deployed warheads each. It was signed in Moscow on 24 May 2002. After ratification by the U.S. Senate and the State Duma SORT came into force on 1 June 2003. It would have expired on 31 December 2012 if not superseded by New START. Either party could have withdrawn from the treaty upon giving three months written notice to the other. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
200649551Washington DC: GPO 2006. First Edition. First Printing. good. 632 wraps illus. S. Hrg. 109-382. GPO paperback
200251776Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2002. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. very good. iv 204 pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Figures Tables. S. Hrg. 107-739. In the aftermath of the Enron collapse this hearing considered executive compensation and stock options. From the Opening Statement of Hon Max Baucus Chairman Committee on Finance. Today we are addressing some interrelated issues of corporate governance and executive compensation. Based upon questions that have arisen with the collapse of Enron we have been inundated with reports of accounting restatements disclosure concerns SEC files and so forth. Congress certainly is reacting to all of these questions. There must be what over a dozen two dozen committees and subcommittees in the Congress who have held hearings on issues related to Enron. Now we in the Congress are starting to turn to legislation. For our part the Finance Committee is working on three pieces of legislation: pensions tax shelters and executive compensation and stock options. At the same time corporations are also reacting themselves from the collapse of Enron. Some of them are reforming their practices. We now seek delays in financial reports as internal changes are made to reflect improved and probably more conservative accounting practices. The Financial Accounting Standards Board is considering reforms and the Securities Exchange Commission appears to be cracking down on enforcement. With that in mind however I think it is also critical for us to take a couple of steps back from the canvas and look at the larger picture. Before we go down this road too far I think it is important to take a good look at what we are doing where we are and what got us to this point. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
200551792Place_Pub: Washington DC: GPO 2005. very good. 171 wraps footnotes figures tables references. S. Hrg. 109-559. This hearing examines whether several widely used provisions of the tax code which were due to expire before 2010 are accomplishing what Congress intended and if the cost is worth the economic benefit--expensing to small businesses the saver's credit intended to encourage retirement savings by low-income taxpayers and the 15-percent individual rate for most dividends and capital gains. GPO paperback
200250497Washington DC: GPO 2002. First Edition. First Printing. very good. 215 wraps appendix tables charts footnotes. S. Hrg. 107-471. GPO paperback
200445017Washington DC: GPO 2004. very good. Quarto 511 wraps appendices glossary classified material has been redacted in the text crossed out heavily in black print This is the unclassified version of the report. Topics covered include Niger Iraq's nuclear program Iraq's biological weapons program Iraq's chemical weapons program Iraq's delivery systems weapons of mass destruction intelligence in Secretary of State Colin Powell's United Nations speech Iraq's links to terrorism Iraq's threat to regional stability and security Saddam Hussein's human rights record and United Nations inspectors among other topics. GPO paperback
200547936Washington DC: GPO 2005. First Edition. First Printing. good. 289 wraps. S. Hrg. 109-151. GPO paperback
200347323Washington DC: GPO 2003. good. 487 wraps illus. footnotes covers somewhat worn and soiled cover creased. Complete title: The Role of Bilateral and Multilateral Arms Control Agreements in Controlling Threats from the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Hearings before the International Security Proliferation and Federal Services Subcommittee of the Committee on Governmental Affairs United States Senate One Hundred Seventh Congress First and Second Session November 7 2001 Current and Future Weapons of Mass Destruction WMD Proliferation Threats November 14 and 29 2001 Combatting Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction WMD with Nonproliferation Programs: Nonproliferation Assistance Coordination Act of 2001 February 12 2002 Multilateral Nonproliferation Regimes Weapons of Mass Destruction Technologies and the War on Terrorism July 29 2002 Strengthening Multilateral Nonproliferation Regimes. S. Hrg. 107-383. GPO paperback
200650265Washington DC: GPO 2006. First Edition. First Printing. very good. 24 cm 416 wraps figures tables slight wear and soiling to covers S. Hrg. 109-916. The hearing focused primarily on the state of the corporate tax system but also addressed the basic issues to consider in the context of business tax reform--lowering the rates and broadening the base. GPO paperback
200647939Washington DC: GPO 2006. First Edition. First Printing. good. 313 wraps illus. S. Hrg. 109-386. GPO paperback
20081348146PN. New. 2008. Soft Cover. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
200663958Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2006. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 385 p. Includes illustrations. S. Hrg. 109-846. This hearing examined domestic efforts to promote early diagnosis of HIV infection and ensure access to AIDS treatment. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
200864602Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2008. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 213 p. Includes illustrations. S. Hrg. 108-925. In this hearing the Judiciary Committee began its discussion of the portions of the 9/11 Commission's report and recommendations that related to areas under the Committee's jurisdiction such as border security and the rold of the FBI in the field of counterintelligence. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
200666482Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2006. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Usual library markings. Cover has some wear and soiling. xvii 3 499 p. Includes illustrations. Oversized. Some illustrations in color. Selected Bibliography. Index of Artists & Subjects. Esasays by Diane K. Skvarla and Donald A. RItchie. 109th Congress 1st Session Senate Document 109-2. From the Senate website: " The United States Catalogue of Graphic Art marks the first comprehensive publication of the approximately 1 000 prints that constitute the Senate's collection. Offering a variety of perspectives on the Senate of the 19th and 20th centuries the prints provide insight into a time quite different than the media-saturated world of today. While politics was a major topic in the post-Revolutionary War press limitations in printing technology meant that engravings or other visuals were uncommon. Thus most people formed their views of the new government through written or oral sources. However in 1839 with the introduction of the daguerreotype the country was familiarized with the faces of notable senators such as Henry Clay Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun. By the early 1850s further innovation in engraving procedures enabled publishers to create engravings in hours rather than days or weeks. At the same time the growth of railroads and improvements in roads allowed for relatively rapid distribution of illustrated magazines such as Harper's Weekly The Graphic Puck and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and for the first time readers could "see" an event within a week and later within days of it happening. Like the print and broadcast media of today these illustrated news magazines included both hard news and softer features and the graphic art catalogue reflects this coverage mix. The catalogue includes prints depicting important events of the day such as the debate over slavery the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson and presidential inaugurations. But also featured are prints capturing the daily rhythms of the Senate such as the crowded Capitol corridors Senate pages delivering documents lobbyist pleading their case meals in the Senate dining room and idyllic scenes of the Capitol building and grounds. The catalogue is organized into eight thematic chapters: Senate Chamber Capitol Interior Capitol Exterior & Grounds Senate Art Portraits Group Portraits Beyond Capitol Hill and Political Cartoons & Caricatures. Detailed information is given for each print including title creator date of publication printing technique and dimensions. In addition accompanying approximately 30 prints are short essays giving background and context for the scene people or events depicted in the illustration. For the chapter on political cartoons which includes the work of such notable artists as Thomas Nast and Joseph Keppler there is an introductory essay as well as brief commentaries on 15 cartoons. This catalogue will undoubtably become a valuable resource for anyone wanting to learn more about the history of the Senate the Capitol and American political history." From Wikipedia: "The United States Senate Curator is an employee of the United States Senate who is responsible for developing and implementing the museum and preservation programs for the Senate Commission on Art. The Curator Office collects preserves and interprets the Senate's fine and decorative arts historic objects and architectural features. Through exhibits publications and other programs the Office educates the public about the Senate and its collections. The current curator is Diane K. Skvarla." U.S. Government Printing Office hardcover
2024280842Skilled Books 2024 Brand New. Quarto tooled leatherbound binding. Gold spine lettering. Facsimile reprint. Hand made. Beautiful copy. Ships fast from USA. 219pp. Limited Edition. Hardcover. New. Skilled Books hardcover
