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2006réf. 62297Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2006. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. ix 1589 p. Serial No. J-109-56. S. Hrg. 109-277. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
2002réf. 62769Washington 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
1976réf. 64120Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1976. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some pencil erasure and sticker residue. Stamp on back cover. vi 841 p.; 24 cm. Illustrations. This was an important set of hearings during the last third of the 20th century that sought to 'reform' federal lobbying laws. While recognizing the role that advocacy could positively have in the democratic process the committee was concerned that to assure public confidence "the lobbyist must work in the open. " Time had changed since the Federal Lobbying Act of 1946 and these hearings explored ways to update and modernize the transparency and procedures of lobbying. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
1976réf. 67803Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1976. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. Letter J written in ink on front cover. Cover soiled and scuffed. VOLUME 1 ONLY. iv 245 pages. 24 cm. Title continues: "Storage of Toxic Agents September 16 17 and 18 1975." From a United States Senate website: "In 1973 CIA Director James Schlesinger told Senate Armed Services Chairman John Stennis that he wished to brief him on a major upcoming operation. No no my boy responded Senator Stennis. Don t tell me. Just go ahead and do it but I don t want to know. Similarly when Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J.W. Fulbright was told of the CIA subversion of the Allende government in Chile he responded I don t approve of intervention in other people s elections but it has been a long-continued practice. Late in 1974 investigative reporter Seymour Hersh revealed that the CIA was not only destabilizing foreign governments but was also conducting illegal intelligence operations against thousands of American citizens. On January 27 1975 an aroused Senate voted overwhelmingly to establish a special 11-member investigating body along the lines of the recently concluded Watergate Committee. Under the chairmanship of Idaho Senator Frank Church with Texas Senator John Tower as vice-chairman the select committee was given nine months and 150 staffers to complete its work. The so-called Church Committee ran into immediate resistance from the Ford administration concerned about exposing American intelligence operations and suspicious of Church s budding presidential ambitions. The committee interviewed 800 individuals and conducted 250 executive and 21 public hearings. At the first televised hearing staged in the Senate Caucus Room Chairman Church dramatically displayed a CIA poison dart gun to highlight the committee s discovery that the CIA directly violated a presidential order by maintaining stocks of shellfish toxin sufficient to kill thousands. Lacking focus and necessarily conducting much of its work behind closed doors the panel soon lost any hope of becoming a second Watergate Committee. Critics from Bing Crosby to Paul Harvey accused it of treasonous activity. The December 1975 assassination of a CIA station chief in Greece intensified the public backlash against its mission. The panel issued its two-foot-thick final report in May 1976 without the support of influential Republican members John Tower and Barry Goldwater. Despite its shortcomings the inquiry demonstrated the need for perpetual surveillance of the intelligence community and resulted in the creation of the permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Historian Henry Steele Commager assessed the Committee s legacy. Referring to executive branch officials who seemed to consider themselves above the law he said It is this indifference to constitutional restraints that is perhaps the most threatening of all the evidence that emerges from the findings of the Church Committee. " From Wikipedia: "The Church Committee was the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities a U.S. Senate committee chaired by Senator Frank Church D-ID in 1975. A precursor to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence the committee investigated intelligence gathering for illegality by the Central Intelligence Agency CIA National Security Agency NSA and Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI after certain activities had been revealed by the Watergate affair. By the early years of the 1970s the unpopularity of the Vietnam War and the unfolding Watergate scandal brought the era of minimal oversight to an abrupt halt. The United States Congress was determined to rein in the Nixon administration and to ascertain the extent to which the nation's intelligence agencies had been involved in questionable if not outright illegal activities. A series of troubling revelations started to appear in the press concerning intelligence activities. First came the revelations of Christopher Pyle in January 1970 of the U.S. Army's spying on the civilian population and Sam Ervin's Senate. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
2004réf. 62330Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2004. Presumned first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 105 p. Serial No. J-108-93. S. Hrg. 108-659. In the view of Senator Orrin Hatch "This liability crisis not only robs many patients of access to vital medical care but needlessly raises health care costs for all Americans. " U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
1979réf. 65787Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1979. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Has slight wear and soiling. v 75 p.; 24 cm. Occasional footnotes. 96th Congress 1st Session Senate Report No. 96-141. 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
1941réf. 70061Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office 1941. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. Notation o page 602 Newspaper clipping removed from between pp. 602/3. Cover has some wear and soiling. PART 2 ONLY. v 1 397--712 x 4 p. Illustrations black & white. Fold-outs Title continues: "Seventy-seventh Congress First Session Pursuant to S. Res. 71 A Resolution Authorizing and Directing an Investigation of the National Defense Program Part 2: April 28 29 and 30; May 5 6 7 and 8 1942: Soft Coal Strike; Camp Construction at Fort George G. Meade Location of Seventh Corps Area Training Center" From Wikipedia: "The Truman Committee formally known as the Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program was a United States Congressional investigative body headed by Senator Harry S. Truman. The bipartisan special committee was formed in March 1941 to find and correct problems in US war production. The Truman Committee saved an estimated $10 15 billion in military spending and thousands of lives of US servicemen. From 1941 until its end in 1948 the Committee held 432 public hearings listened to 1 798 witnesses and published almost 2 000 pages of reports. Every committee report was unanimous with bipartisan support. United States Government Printing Office paperback
1979réf. 61973Washington 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
1991réf. 65778Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1991. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some wear and soiling. Edge tear at from page. Ink notation on spine. 225 p. 102d Congress 1st Session Senate Exec. Rept. 102-19. This is the Committee's favorable report on and recommendation of Robert M. Gates to be confirmed by the Senate at Director of Central Intelligence. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
1979réf. 62367Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office 1979. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Tear in front cover. Ink notation on front cover. iii 422 p. 24 cm. Illustrations. The purpose of this hearing was to examing the health policy implications of the President's proposed fiscal year 1980 health budget. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
1992réf. 63485U.S. Government Printing Office 1992. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Three letters written in red on front cover. Some yellow highlighting noted on page one. vii 577 p. Illustrations. S. Hrg. 102-721. This hearing addressed legislation proposed by Senators David Boren and Arlen Specter. The legislation would require the Government to release records to the American public which are relevant to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The bill would have created a presumption on releasing documents. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
2004réf. 62305Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2004. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some wear and soiling. Several corners at front bumped/creased. v 396 p. Includes illustrations. S. Hrg. 108-400. This was Senator Snowe's first hearing as Chairperson of this committee. She replaced Senator Kerry. The focus of this hearing was on the challange of small business health care that was ont only a matter of urgency for small businesses but was also of dual significance to our nation at a time when we are both exploring opportunities to boos the economy and ways of reducing the stunning number of uninsured in America. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
1982réf. 64629Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1982. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Mailing label on back page. iii 88 p.; 24 cm. Table. S/ 2919 was a bill to help ensure the Nation's independent factual knowledge of Soviet-bloc countries to help maintain the national capability for advanced research and training on which that knowledge depends and to provide partial financial support for national programs to serve both purposes. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
2006réf. 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
1974réf. 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
2004réf. 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
2004réf. 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
1978réf. 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
2005réf. 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
2005réf. 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
2004réf. 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
2008réf. 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
1972réf. 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
2002réf. 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
1983réf. 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