Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1985. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some war and soiling. Label residue on back cover. iv 584 p. : ill.; 24 cm. Includes Illustrations. S. Hrg. 99-26. The Grace COmmission was established in June 1982 by Executive Order to identify ways to reduce the cost of the Federal Government. Overall the Commission came up with nearly 2 500 recommendations resulting in projected cost savings of some $424 billion over a three year period. In procurement alone the Commission estimated that $34.5 billion could be saved over three years if the GOvernment improved its procurement practices. This hearing concentrated on those Grace Commission recommendations which accounted for most of the projected savings in procurement. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1980. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some tears/chips/scuffs at front. with minor damage to following page. Rear cover chipped and creased. v 653 p. 24 cm. Illustrations. This hearing focussed attention on regulatory reform specifically agency compliance with Executive Order 12044 and the two-part agency report card that had been released shortly prior to the hearing by the Office of Management and Budget. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1979. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some wear and soiling. vi 808 p.; 23 cm. Serial No. 96-69. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2003. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has slight wear and soiling. iii 79 p. Includes illustrations. Occasional footnotes. S. Hrg. 107-785. The chariman Ernest Hollings stated. that "it was an eyeopener for me to find out how well the Coast Guard is coordinated hos sophisticated Customs is. I think to this day that is the best briefing that this particular Senator and Commitee has had in quict some time. This hearing was part of a series of hearing after the 9/11 attacks that addressed aspects of the Homeland Security reorganization of the U. S. Government. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2003. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 88 p. Occasional footnotes. S. Hrg. 106-1108. Includes testimony by Jack Valenti and Brent Scowcroft. The subject of this hearing was China's entry into the WOrld Trade Organization WTO; and the question of granting pernmanent normal trade relations to that country. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 61987 ISBN : 0160707315 9780160707315
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1997. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iv 116 p. S. Hrg. 105-45 Part I. This was the first of a series of hearings which the Committee planned to hold in Washington and at field locations. The two major issues which the Committee intended to llok at at least initially related to what happened to the GUlf War Veterans where they being adequately treated and compensated for their exposure to a variety of problems in the Gulf War; and the second was what action was taken by the Department of Defense the other branches of Government to find out what happened whether the veterans were exposed to chemical warfare and just exactly what occurred back at Khamisiyah in March 1991 when an Iraqi chemical compound was detonated and why it was not made public until 1996. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64419 ISBN : 0160552982 9780160552984
Washington City: Duane & Son 1807. Disbound. Very Good binding. Octavo. 49 1 pp. Removed from volume. Light toning throughout but generally quite clean. Uncommon document related to early Washington infrastructure. Shaw & Shoemaker 13910. Duane & Son unknown
Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1993. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Very good. xii 1223 5 pages. Footnotes. Some cover wear. The POW/MIA issue has proven almost as emotional and controversial as the Vietnam War itself. The Committee has sought to transform this troubled atmosphere by encouraging all participants in the debate to join forces in an objective search for the truth. Because the overriding hope and objective of the Committee was to identify information that would lead to the rescue or release of one or more live U.S. POWs the Committee gave first priority to investigation of issues related to our most recent war the conflict in Vietnam. Nevertheless substantial resources were devoted to seeking and reviewing information concerning Americans missing from World War II the Korean War and the Cold War. The Committee has operated on a nonpartisan basis with a nonpartisan staff directed by Members equally divided between the two parties. The Committee sought the guidance of family members activists veterans' organizations and many others about how to conduct the investigation where to focus whom to consult and what issues to address. Former POWs were contacted and asked to share their knowledge and all previous inquiries and investigations on the subject were reviewed. The Committee requested and received access to the records of a wide range of U.S. Government agencies including intelligence agencies and the White House. Unlike previous investigators we refused to accept "national security" as grounds for denying information and obtained assurances from the highest levels of government that no relevant information would be withheld. The Select Committee was created because of the need to reestablish trust between our government and our people on this most painful and emotional of issues. It was created to investigate and tell publicly the complete story about what our government knows and has known and what it is doing and has done on behalf of our POW/MIAs. It was created to examine the possibility that unaccounted for Americans might have survived in captivity after POW repatriations at Odessa in World War II after Operation Big Switch in Korea in 1953 after Cold War incidents and particularly after Operation Homecoming in Vietnam in 1973. It was created to ensure that accounting for missing Americans will be a matter of highest national priority not only in word but in practice. It was created to encourage real cooperation from foreign governments. It was created in short to pursue the truth at home and overseas. Whether the Committee has succeeded in its assigned tasks will be a matter for the public and for history to judge. Clearly we cannot claim nor could we have hoped to have learned everything. We had neither the authority nor the resources to make case by case determinations with respect to the status of the missing. The job of negotiating conducting interviews visiting prisons excavating crash sites investigating live-sighting reports and evaluating archival materials can only be completed by the Executive branch. This job long frustrated by the intransigence of foreign governments will take time to complete notwithstanding the recent improvements in cooperation especially from Vietnam. The Committee takes considerable pride however in its contribution through oversight to improvements in the accountability process and in the record of information and accomplishment it leaves behind. That record includes the most rapid and extensive declassification of public files and documents on a single issue in American history. It includes a set of hearings and Committee files in which virtually every part of the POW/MIA controversy has been examined. It includes disclosure after disclosure about aspects of U.S. policy and actions that have never before been made public. It includes a rigorous public examination of relevant U.S. intelligence information. It includes an exposure of the activities of some private groups who have sought inexcusably to exploit the anguish of POW/MIA families for their own gain. It includes a contribution to changed policies that is reflected on the ground in Vietnam in the form of unprecedented access to prisons military bases government buildings documents photographs archives and material objects that bear on the fate of our missing servicemen. And it includes encouraging the Executive branch to establish a process of live-sighting response investigation and evaluation that is more extensive and professional than ever before. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2006. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 109 p. Illustrations. S. Hrg. 109-403. With this hearing the Committee continued its investigation into Hurricane Katrina. Ten hearings had preceded this one. Bacause of the response to Hurricane Katrina the Committee felt that it must surely question our preparedness for dealing with a stealthier more sinister terrorist attack. The foucs of this hearing was on the simulation called Hurricane Pam a federally funded exercise to plan for a catastrophic hurricane in southeast Louisiana. THe hearing examined both the lessons learned and the lessons that which such terrible consequences went unlearned. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64701 ISBN : 0160777992 9780160777998
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2000. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. v 222 p. Includes illustrations. Footnotes. S. Hrg. 106-842. Medicare paid for medically necessary prescription drugs provided to inpatients of hospitals or skilled nursing facilities. At the time of the hearing Medicare was spending over $3 billion annually for this coverage. The Congress was interested in addressing Medicare outpatient prescription drug coverage. The Chairman wanted to be careful not to displace existing privately offered drug coverage. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2002. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 76 p. S. Hrg. 107-631. This hearing examined to some extent the practice of cost-shifting of medical expenditures and the cost of prescription drugs within the Veterans Affairs system. The committee was interested in ensuring that the Department of Veterans Affairs was properly resourced to provide the care needed by veterans. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
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