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2005ref. 63339Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2005. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 83 p. S. Hrg. 108-853. The Chairman felt that the hearing came at an important time. Progress made by our armed forces together with our coalition partners presented an opportunity to fully defeat violence and terror in Iraq. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
1982ref. 60165Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1982. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket. iv 140 p. Serial No. J-97-68. This was a very important hearing on the process and impact of Indochiness refugee resettlement. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
1997ref. 60163Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1997. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket. iii 200 p. Illustrations. S. Hrg. 105-197. This was the first of a series of QDR hearings that were intended to provide to the Congress with a general understanding of the administration's proposals and its implications for national security. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
1980ref. 63934Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1980. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Has some wear and soiling. iv 213 p.; 24 cm. Serial No. 96-45. This nomination was controversial with significant opposition from the Hispanic community. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
1986ref. 65777Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1986. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has slight wear and soiling. iii 83 p. 24 cm. Includes Forms. S. Hrg. 99-620. The purpose of this hearing was for the purpose of confirming Robert Gates as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence. This hearing was in essence an oversight responsibility of the Committee over the intelligence process in the United States. The effectiveness of national intelligence in support of the policymakers the conformance of intelligence activity with the law and the wise expenditure of funds invested in collection analysis and operation are dependent in the final analysis on the leadership at the top of the intelligence structure. The Committee was charged with assessing the qualifications of Robert Gates to assume the mantel of one of the senior leaders in the U.S. Intelligence Community. While recognizing Mr. Gates' past achievements the Committee was going to base its judgment on their view of Mr. Gates' ability to perform in this new and challenging role. Not only was Mr. Gates to be responsible for providing direction to the intelligence community as they faced myriad challenges he was to be personally held accountable for the outcomes. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
2002ref. 64112Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2002. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iv594 p. Includes illustrations. S. Hrg. 107-318. This fireld hearing heard from local citizens and officals and national experts on a range of issues important to the community including children's health childhood leukemia cancer clusters and environmentally-related health problems. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
2002ref. 64114Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2002. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 409 p. Includes illustrations. S. Hrg. 107-227. The Strategic Subcommittee recieved testimony from the National Commission for the Review of the Natioanl Reconnaissance Office NRO and from the Independent Commission on the National Imagery and Mapping Agency NIMA. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
2008ref. 66628Washington 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
2008ref. 64604Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2008. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 71 p. S. Hrg. 110-564. It was the subcommittee's intention to conduct a broad reevaluation of the policies that were shaped by the U.S. assistance package to Pakistan. The United States had provided about $10 billion in financial assistance to Pakistan since 2001. The Chairman was interested in discussing how the United States should use our foreign assistance to develop and support a moderate center in Pakistan. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
1994ref. 62364Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1994. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. 428 p. 103d Congress 2d Session Senate Report 103-317. Calendar No. 525. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
1981ref. 61692Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office 1981. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Bottom edge has some soiling. vi 769 p. 24 cm. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Serial No. J-97-47. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
1981ref. 60230Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1981. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket. iv 175 p. 24 cm. Illustrations. Endnotes. The Law of the Sea negotiations were among the most important issues confronting the then Administration. The new Administration determined to conduct a thorough review of the draft treaty in an effort to develop realistic positions on such issues as deep seabed mining. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
2006ref. 61680Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2006. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 114 p. Illustrations. S. Hrg. 107-1155. Serial No. J-107-91. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
1982ref. 70405Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office 1982. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket. Pencil erasure residue on cover. Some curling at the top corner. Item has some wear and soiling. v 1 232 2 p. 24 cm. Illustrations. Title continues: "nuclear arms January 20 21 and 25 1982. From Wikipedia: "Arms control is a term for international restrictions upon the development production stockpiling proliferation and usage of small arms conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction. Arms control is typically exercised through the use of diplomacy which seeks to impose such limitations upon consenting participants through international treaties and agreements although it may also comprise efforts by a nation or group of nations to enforce limitations upon a non-consenting country." U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
2007ref. 61960Washington 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
1992ref. 65781Washignton DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1992. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Covers have some wear and soiling. Some minor creasing. 3 volume set. S. Hrg. 102-7899 3 volumes. Volume 1 0-16-039540-2 iv 961 p. ; Volume 2 0-16-039541-0 v 1 740 p.0; Volume 3 0-16-039542-9 iii 1 317 p. The Director of Central Intelligence commands vast capabilities to collect and analyze information far beyond those imagined by the earlier DCIs. On the basis of the information the DCI provides policy decisions are made diplomatic initiatives are mounted military operations are planned and carried out and research and development efforts are targeted. The DCI's job is unique interms of ranges of sensitive activities that the CIA is asked to carry out. The Committee felt that it must also examine the process by which intelligence analysis was developed for policymakers and felt that the DCI that they confirmed would need to preside over the first sweeping redesign of American intelligence since the National Security Act was passed in 1947. This three volume record of the hearings are increasingly scare and provide insight into Mr. Gates before he rose to the position of Secretary of Defense which he held over two administrations for Presidents of different parties. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
1986ref. 67457Washington: U.S. G.P.O. 1986. Wraps. Good. Inkinitials on front cover. iv 681 p. 24 cm. Illustrations Maps. Title continues: "Ninety-ninth Congress First Session on S. 1517 and S. 1578 October 8 1985. S. Hrg. 99-349. This joint hearing was convened to address the serious issue of low-level radioactive waste disposal. The states had been negotiating regional compacts. The hearing was for the purpose of assisting the consideration of what courses of action the Congress should take with regard to those compacts that had been submitted to the Congress and to determine what interim measures might be taken to ensure that the remaining states moved forward to assume responsiblity for the wasts generated in their States. U.S. G.P.O. paperback
1968ref. 70342Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office 1968. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. Signed by previous owner. Cover has some wear and soiling. iv 300 p. Title continued: "17 1968". From Wikipedia: "The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament. Opened for signature in 1968 the Treaty entered into force in 1970. On 11 May 1995 the Treaty was extended indefinitely. More countries have adhered to the NPT than any other arms limitation and disarmament agreement a testament to the Treaty's significance. A total of 191 states have joined the Treaty though North Korea which acceded to the NPT in 1985 but never came into compliance announced its withdrawal in 2003. Four UN member states have never joined the NPT: India Israel Pakistan and South Sudan. The treaty recognizes five states as nuclear-weapon states: the United States Russia the United Kingdom France and China also the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council." U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
2007ref. 64115Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2007. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iv 350 p. Includes illustrations. S. Hrg. 110-815. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
1980ref. 60186Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1980. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket. Has some wear and soiling. iv 114 p.; 24 cm. The witnesses at this hearing represent the three voting members of the Chrysler Loan Guarantee Board. The purpose of the oversight hearing was to examine the decision to provide a $500 million loan guarantee. The law provided that before a guarantee can actually be issues the Board must transmit a written report to the committee of the Congress setting forth the determinations required to be made under the act and the reasons for making each determination. The hearing examined the report and the supporting materials and considered whether the requirements of the Act had been met. The intervention by the Federal Government to intervene to avert bankruptcy by the Chrysler Corporation was at the time a remarkable and largely unprecedented action. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
1980ref. 62337Washington: U.S. Govt. Print Off 1980. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 78 p. : graph; 24 cm. Title continues "to amend Chapter 5 of Title 37 United States Code to revise the special pay provisions for certain health professionals in the Uniformed Services S. 1100 to amend Chapter r of Title 37 United Sttes Code to revise the special pay provisions for certain health professionals in the Uniformed Services H. R. 5235 to amend Chapter 5 of Title 37 United Sttes Code to revise the special pay provisions for certain health professionals in the Uniformed Services December 5 1979" U.S. Govt. Print Off paperback
2007ref. 62783Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2007. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 80 p. Includes illustrations. S. Hrg. 109-884. The Committee met to recieve testimoney on the contributions of immigrants to the United States Armed Froces throughout America's history. Service in the Armed Forces of the United States is an avenue for some to achieve naturalization and citizenship status. It was authorized by law in 1952. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
1996ref. 64070Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1996. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Some edge curling on front cover and first few pages. iv 443 p. Illustrations. Some footnotes. S. Hrg. 104-471. The first agreement between the U.S. and EURATOM was reached in 1958. This is a hearing on a new undated agreement reached among negotiators in July 1995. The new agreement would replace existing agreements with EURATOM as well as well as bilateral agreements with Austria Finland Spain and Sweden. This hearing heard from those who supported the agreement and those who opposed it as well as obtaining the views of Federal agencies directly involved in the agreement negotiations. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
1978ref. 61976Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1978. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some corner creasing. iv 452 p.; 24 cm. Illustrations. These hearings addressed flexible and compressed work schedule options. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
1990ref. 65790Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1990. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Has slight wear and soiling. v 28 p.; 24 cm. 101st Congress 1st Session Senate Report No. 101-219. This is the report on the activities of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence which was given the responsibility to carry out oversight over the intelligence activities of the United States. The Committee believed that intelligence activities should be as accountable as possible to the public and this public report was intended to meet this requirement. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback