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2006Best.-Nr. 63958Washington 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
1974Best.-Nr. 67794Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1974. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. Pencil correction to a date on page iii. x 409 p.; 24 cm. Title continues: "on Role of Dr. Henry A. Kissinger in the Wiretapping of Certain Government Officials and Newsmen Executive hearings held on July 10 15 16 23 and 30 1974; made public September 29 1974 and Executive Hearings held on September 10 and 17 1973 made public October 4 1973 and further declassified and made public September 29 1974 and Executive hearing held on January 29 1974; relevant portions made public February 5 1974 and further declassified and made public on September 29 1974. . U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
2004Best.-Nr. 63264Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2004. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very Good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 146 p. S. Hrg. 107-1043. This hearing was held to explore the effectiveness of the USA PATRIOT Act and the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Reform Act. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
2004Best.-Nr. 60269Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2004. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket. iv 165 p. Occasional footnotes. S. Hrg. 108-275. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
1978Best.-Nr. 62301Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1978. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Sticker residue on front cover. iv 542 p.; 24 cm. Exhibits. This hearing was held on the premise that "The Inspector General bill focuses attention on the fact that Federal departments and agencies ahve long been deficient in the way they manitain financial accounts and records and in failing to audit them properly. A report was prepared for this subcommittee by the General Accounting Office. This report found that approximately one-third of the agencies it surveyed did not receive a proper financial audit during fiscal years 1974 1975 or 1976. " U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
2005Best.-Nr. 64421Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2005. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 136 p. Illustrations. S. Hrg. 109-153. This hearing was part of the process by which the Legislative Branch worked with the Executive Branch to defelop initiatives that would assist in Tsunami recovery. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
2005Best.-Nr. 65858Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2005. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket. Cover has slight wear and soiling. iv 1474 p. Includes illustrations. S. Hrg. 108-868. This group of hearings addressed the treatment of prisoners by the U.S. military. It addressed the abuses that were reported at the Abu Ghraib prison and the report of General Taguba's investigation. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
2004Best.-Nr. 61977Washington 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
2008Best.-Nr. 64602Washington 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
1972Best.-Nr. 58869Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1972. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 257 p. Illustrations. Index. Title continues Ninety-Second Congress Second Session September 26 1972. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
2002Best.-Nr. 63270Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2002. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. iv 275 p. S. Hrg. 107-658. This hearing addressed the issue of going to war with Iraw. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
1983Best.-Nr. 67430Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1983. Wraps. Good. Cover has some wear and soiling. iv 252 p. 24 cm. Illustrations. Title continues: "level radioactive wast March 2 1983." S. Hrg. 98-331. Serial No. J-98-14. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
1998Best.-Nr. 39508Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1998. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Wraps. good. 24 cm 353 Part II only wraps illus. references. S. Hrg. 105-300. Hearings held on July 15 16 and 17 1997. The Senate Majority Leader announced during the first week of December 1996 that the Committee on Governmental Affairs would conduct an investigation into fundraising practices. In all 10 parts related to these hearings were published along with a final report with minority views. In late September 1995 questions arose regarding the Democratic National Committee's fund-raising practices. The following year China's alleged role in the campaign finance controversy first gained public attention after the Washington Post published a story stating that a Department of Justice investigation had evidence that China directed contributions from foreign sources to the DNC before the 1996 campaign. The Post wrote that intelligence had showed the Chinese Embassy was used for coordinating contributions to the DNC. One of the more notable events learned involved Vice President Al Gore and a fund-raising event held at Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights California. The Temple event was organized by DNC fund-raisers John Huang and Maria Hsia. It is illegal under U.S. law for religious organizations to donate money to politicians or political groups due to their tax-exempt status. The U.S. Justice Department alleged Hsia facilitated $100000 in illegal contributions to the 1996 Clinton-Gore reelection campaign through her efforts at the Temple. Hsia was eventually convicted by a jury in March 2000. The DNC eventually returned the money donated by the Temple's monks and nuns. Twelve nuns and employees of the Temple refused to answer questions by pleading the Fifth Amendment when they were subpoenaed to testify before Congress in 1997. Seventeen people were eventually convicted for fraud or for funneling Asian funds into the U.S. elections. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
1978Best.-Nr. 39472Washington DC: GPO 1978. fair. 24 cm 1285 wraps illus. references edges soiled covers worn and soiled some damp staining at bottom edge GPO paperback
1976Best.-Nr. 55626Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1976. presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. Senate document 94th Congress 2d Session Report No. 94-755. viii 651 5 pages. Wraps. Figures. Footnotes. Appendices. Glossary. Small tears at spine slight soiling to text staples in front cover small stains on title page. Inscribed to Nancy Brooks by Michael Madigan Staff Counsel and Spencer Davis Staff Press Secretary. In 1973 the Senate Watergate Committee investigation revealed that the executive branch had directed national intelligence agencies to carry out constitutionally questionable domestic security operations. In 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh published a front-page New York Times article claiming that the CIA had been spying on anti-war activists for more than a decade violating the agency's charter. Former CIA officials and some lawmakers including Senators William Proxmire and Stuart Symington called for a congressional inquiry. On January 21 1975 Senator John Pastore introduced a resolution to establish a select committee to investigate federal intelligence operations and determine "the extent if any to which illegal improper or unethical activities were engaged in by any agency of the Federal Government." The Senate approved the resolution 82-4. The final report included 96 recommendations legislative and regulatory designed "to place intelligence activities within the constitutional scheme for controlling government power." The committee recommended strengthening oversight of intelligence activities. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield cautioned the Senate "against letting the affair become a ‘television extravaganza.'" He and Republican Leader Hugh Scott carefully selected committee members balancing experienced lawmakers with junior members and ensuring that members represented a variety of political viewpoints. Mansfield selected Democrat Frank Church of Idaho to serve as chairman. A 16-year member of the Committee on Foreign Relations Church recognized the strategic value of the nation's top intelligence agencies and was also mindful of the need for American institutions to function within the confines of U.S. constitutional law. He had aggressively lobbied to lead the investigation. Republican John Tower of Texas a member of the Armed Services Committee was selected as the committee's vice-chairman. The committee decided that most of its hearings would be held in closed executive session in order to protect intelligence sources and methods. The committee held a series of public hearings in September and October of 1975 to educate the American public about the "unlawful or improper conduct" of the intelligence community highlighting a few carefully selected cases of misconduct. These hearings examined a CIA biological agents program a White House domestic surveillance program IRS intelligence activities and the FBI's program to disrupt the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements. These nationally televised events offered the American public an opportunity to learn about the secret operations conducted for decades by U.S. intelligence agencies. The committee faced a formidable task: to conduct a wide-ranging investigation of the nation's most secret agencies and programs and based on those findings write a detailed report including legislative recommendations. All of this work was to be completed within one year later extended to 16 months. After a meeting with President Gerald Ford and his top national security advisors Church and Vice-Chairman Tower secured from the president a pledge that the White House would cooperate with Senate investigators. Staff identified potential programs for study and began requesting documents from intelligence agencies. Though staff did not always receive documents in a timely fashion they enjoyed unprecedented access to materials that had never before been made public. Perhaps the most well-known of these internal reports the CIA's so-called "Family Jewels" outlined the agency's misdeeds dating back to President Dwight Eisenhower's administration. This report as well as those found in other agencies provided road maps that staff investigators used to piece together complicated histories of domestic foreign and military intelligence programs during the Cold War era. Even with a peak staff of 150 however organizing and analyzing these materials proved to be an arduous task. After holding 126 full committee meetings 40 subcommittee hearings interviewing some 800 witnesses in public and closed sessions and combing through 110000 documents the committee published its final report on April 29 1976. Congress approved legislation to provide for greater checks and balances of the intelligence community. In 1978 Congress approved and President Jimmy Carter signed into law the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act FISA requiring the executive branch to request warrants for wiretapping and surveillance purposes from a newly formed FISA Court. Today the Church Committee reports and hearings are frequently used by scholars who continue to examine U.S. intelligence activities during the Cold War era. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
2003Best.-Nr. 51165Washington 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
1980Best.-Nr. 43222Washington DC: GPO 1980. First Edition. First Printing. good. 793 wraps Part 1 only Serial No. 92-62. GPO paperback
1986Best.-Nr. 53478Place_Pub: Washington DC: GPO 1986. good. 24 cm 835 wraps appendices red underlining & notation on p.275 small tears to top edge of rear cover some foxing on top edge. Topics covered include the Cuban missile crisis the growing U.S. involvement in Vietnam the Cuba and Berlin resolutions the U-2 incident and nuclear test ban and disarmament talks. GPO paperback
1996Best.-Nr. 46891Washington DC: GPO 1996. First Edition. First Printing. Wraps. fair. 935 pages. Wraps. Name of previous owner present. Some curving at bottom edge. S. Hrg. 104-422 Part II. This Congressional inquiry followed the first World Trade Center bombing and the Oklahoma City bombing. GPO paperback
1989Best.-Nr. 49285Washington DC: GPO 1989. very good ex-lib. 728 Appendix B Volume 27 only a few library stamps. Senate Report No. 216 United States Congressional Serial Set Serial Number 13768. Bound in publisher's full beige buckram with smooth spine lettered in black. Contains the depositions of Gen. Maxwell Thurman Stephen S. Trott James L. Tull John Vessey William G. Walker Samuel J. Watson III Caspar Weinberger William Weld John Wickham and Gregory Zink. GPO hardcover
1999Best.-Nr. 51860Place_Pub: Washington DC: GPO 1999. very good. 440 wraps Volume XV only footnotes minor wear and soiling to covers. Volume XV subtitled Committee Report to Accompany H. Res. 611 Impeaching the President of the United States H. Rept. 105-830. Printed at the direction of Gary Sisco Secretary of the Senate pursuant to S. Res. 16 106th Cong. 1st Sess. 1999. 106th Congress 1st Session Senate Document 106-3. GPO paperback
1983Best.-Nr. 51609Washington DC: GPO 1983. good. 91 wraps footnotes corners of a few pages bent text slightly darkened Report No. 98-65. GPO paperback
1995Best.-Nr. 49474Washington DC: GPO 1995. good. 135 illus. boards heavily spotted. Printed by authority of S. Res. 235 103d Congress. Senate Document 103-32. Includes statements by Senators and Representatives tributes and eulogies at the memorial services and commentary and tributes from various newspapers and magazines. GPO hardcover
1979Best.-Nr. 25906Washington DC: GPO 1979. good. 24 cm 131 wraps. GPO paperback
1975Best.-Nr. 26275Washington DC: GPO 1975-1976. good. 24 cm 453 & 745 wraps 2-vol. set appendix minor soiling to covers slight waviness to text pencil erasure on title pages. GPO paperback