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200863056Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2008. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 115 p. S. Hrg. 110-610. This hearing sought to explore the short and long term casues of the recent political and social unrest in Kenya and what could be done to address problems and how the United States might contribute to solutions. 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
200562355Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2005. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. 307 p. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. S. Hrg. 109-234. This was a hearing on the future of Medicaid focusing on a process for strengthing this program. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
200263335Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2002. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 100 p. S. Hrg. 107-764. The committee asked the witnesses to comment on NATO enlargement issues on the role of NATO in the global fight against terrorism the organizational and transformational changes if an that NATO needed to make the technological and capabilities gap that had developed between the U.S. and the other members; the NATO-Russia relationship and how an enlarged NATO could functione ffectively as a military organization. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
200761960Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2007. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iv 707 p. Some portions redacted. COver has slight wear and soiling. 110th Congress 1st Session Committee Print S. Prt. 110-28. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
200366623Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2003. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket. iii 133 p. Illustrations. S. Hrg. 107-977. Serial No. J-107-109. From Wikipedia: "Feres v. United States 340 U.S. 135 1950 combined three pending federal cases for a hearing in certiorari in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the United States is not liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act for injuries to members of the armed forces sustained while on active duty and not on furlough and resulting from the negligence of others in the armed forces. The opinion is an extension of the English common-law concept of sovereign immunity. The practical effect is that the Feres doctrine effectively bars service members from collecting damages from the United States Government for personal injuries experienced in the performance of their duties. It also bars families of service members from filing wrongful death or loss of consortium actions when a service member is killed or injured. The bar does not extend to killed or injured family members so a spouse or child may still sue the United States for tort claims nor does it bar service members from filing either in loco parentis on their child's behalf or filing for wrongful death or loss of consortium as a companion claim to a spouse or child's suit. There have been exceptions to the Feres doctrine where active duty members have been allowed to sue for injuries when the court found that civilians could have been harmed in the same manner under the same circumstances in which the service member's injuries occurred. Injuries experienced by service members while on active duty are covered by various Veteran Administration benefit legislation. Feres v. United States combined three cases pending in the federal courts: The Feres case the Jefferson case and the Griggs case. A common issue arising under the Federal Tort Claims Act as to which Courts of Appeals are in conflict makes it appropriate to consider three cases in one opinion. The Feres case: The District Court dismissed an action by the executrix of Feres against the United States to 3 recover for death caused by negligence. Decedent perished by fire in the barracks at Pine Camp New York while on active duty in service of the United States. Negligence was alleged in quartering him in barracks known or which should have been known to be unsafe because of a defective heating plant and in failing to maintain an adequate fire watch. The Court of Appeals Second Circuit dismissed the case. The Jefferson case: Plaintiff while in the Army was required to undergo an abdominal operation. About eight months later in the course of another operation after plaintiff was discharged a towel 30 inches long by 18 inches wide marked "Medical Department U.S. Army " was discovered and removed from his stomach. The complaint alleged that it was negligently left there by the army surgeon. The District Court being doubtful of the law refused without prejudice the Government's pretrial motion to dismiss the complaint. After trial finding negligence as a fact Judge Chesnut carefully reexamined the issue of law and concluded that the Act does not charge the United States with liability in this type of case. The Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit affirmed dismissed the case. The Griggs case: The District Court dismissed the complaint of Griggs' executrix which alleged that while on active duty he met death because of negligent and unskillful medical treatment by army surgeons. The Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit reversed and one judge dissenting held that the complaint stated a cause of action under the Act. The case is heard by the United States Supreme Court in certiorari." U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
200250481Washington DC: GPO 2002. First Edition. First Printing. good. 152 wraps figures footnotes appendix front cover through p. 2 creased. S. Hrg. 107-376. GPO paperback
200351165Washington DC: GPO 2003. First Edition. First Printing. very good. 112 wraps figures. S. Hrg. 107-804. This hearing explored the issues and rationale associated with the cancellation of the Crusader Artillery System. GPO paperback
2005Q-0373895585Red Dress Ink 2005-12-27. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Red Dress Ink paperback
200247362Washington DC: GPO 2002. good. 131 wraps appendix top corner of front cover through p.8 bent. GPO 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
200464494Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2004. Presumed first edition first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 101 p. Includes illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Serial No. J-108-44. S. Hrg. 108-443. The hearing addressed rising concerns that radical islamic beliefs were developing within military and prison populations and there were questions as to the role played by chaplains in this process. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
200664609Washington DC: U.S. Governement Printing Office 2006. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 105 p. Illustrations. S. Hrg. 109-222. Serial No. J-109-46. Hurricane Katrina exposed the weakness of our Nation's emergency preparedness. The subcommittee in this hearing focused on the question of whether we are prepared for a possible terrorist attack involving problems similar to those caused by the natural disaster in the Gulf Coast. The Chairman believed that the emergency response would be even more difficult to coordinate because we would not have much time in terms of warning if any as to when or where such an attack might occur. U.S. Governement Printing Office paperback
200149186Washington DC: GPO 2001. good. 107 wraps illus. appendix lower corner of covers and a few pages bent. Hearing examining proposals to further amend the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act FSIA and related terrorism issues focusing on efforts to help families of the victims of international terrorism receive compensation. Serial No. J-106-55. S. Hrg. 106-941. GPO paperback
200544794Washington DC: GPO 2005. First Edition. First Printing. very good. 217 wraps illus. S. Hrg. 109-81. GPO paperback
200651773Place_Pub: Washington DC: GPO 2006. very good. 6370 total 4-vol. set wraps illus. figures tables charts some creasing at spines. S. Hrg. 109-797. Volume 1 contains hearing transcripts; an appendix containing Tax Haven Abuses: The Enablers the Tools and Offshore Secrecy a Report prepared by the Minority and Majority Staff of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in conjunction with the Subcommittee hearing held on August 1 2006; and 45 exhibits. Volumes 2 3 and 4 contain footnotes and additional documents cited in the Tax Haven Abuses report. GPO paperback
200649359Place_Pub: Washington DC: GPO 2006. good. 1447 v.4 only wraps illus. figures tables charts some creasing at spine lower corner front cover & a few pages creased. S. Hrg. 109-797. This volume contains footnotes and additional documents cited in Tax Haven Abuses: The Enablers the Tools and Offshore Secrecy a Report prepared by the Minority and Majority Staff of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in conjunction with the Subcommittee hearingheld on August 1 2006. GPO paperback
200951582Washington DC: GPO 2009. First Edition. First Printing. very good. 952 wraps appendices. S. Hrg. 111-30. GPO paperback
200651775Place_Pub: Washington DC: GPO 2006. good. 1588 v.3 only wraps illus. figures tables charts some creasing at spine lower corner front cover & a few pages bent. S. Hrg. 109-797. This volume contains footnotes and additional documents cited in Tax Haven Abuses: The Enablers the Tools and Offshore Secrecy a Report prepared by the Minority and Majority Staff of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in conjunction with the Subcommittee hearingheld on August 1 2006. GPO paperback
200649358Place_Pub: Washington DC: GPO 2006. very good. 1588 v.2 only wraps illus. figures tables charts some creasing at spine. S. Hrg. 109-797. This volume contains footnotes and additional documents cited in Tax Haven Abuses: The Enablers the Tools and Offshore Secrecy a Report prepared by the Minority and Majority Staff of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in conjunction with the Subcommittee hearing held on August 1 2006. GPO paperback
200651774Place_Pub: Washington DC: GPO 2006. good. 1742 v.1 only wraps illus. figures tables charts appendix some creasing at spine lower corner fr cover & a few pgs bent. S. Hrg. 109-797. Volume 1 contains hearing transcripts; an appendix containing Tax Haven Abuses: The Enablers the Tools and Offshore Secrecy a Report prepared by the Minority and Majority Staff of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in conjunction with the Subcommittee hearing held on August 1 2006; and 45 exhibits. GPO paperback
200363060Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2003. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 88 p. S. Hrg. 108-208. The Committee held this hearing to examine the United States policy toward Haiti. The Committee had previously examined 'failed States' and the risk such entities posed to the United States' national security. The Commitee concluded that within the Western Hemisphere Haiti had been a continuing tragedy. Its prospects for advancement had been marred by authoritarian rule and periods of political instability. Organization of American States Resolution 822 laid out specific steps that the government of Haiti needed to take to fulfill the promise of true democracy in Haiti. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
200461977Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2004. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Rough edge where overage of several pages removed. Otherwise very good. v 409 p. Includes illustrations. S. Hrg. 108-637. The purpose of this hearing was to review proposals to improve access to Medicaid home and community based services. One of the proposes was the President's New Freedom Initiative. ANother was the Medicaid Community Based Attendant Services and SUpport Act of 2003 also know as MiCASSA. The hearing addressed aspects of both proposals. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
200661679Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2006. Hardcover. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 103 p. S. Hrg. 109-470. The purpose of the hearing was for the Committee to recieve testimony on the current status of our ground forces in fighting the global war on terrorism. U. S. Government Printing Office hardcover
200249087Washington DC: GPO 2002. First Edition. First Printing. good. 219 wraps illus. S. Hrg. 106-1068. GPO paperback
