{"id":6223,"date":"2010-12-03T11:05:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T17:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=6223"},"modified":"2018-02-09T08:38:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T14:38:25","slug":"the-u-s-govt-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/6223","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Gov&#8217;t in the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Government has been in the news lately for quite a few reasons, including these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The military&#8217;s &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; policy &#8211; <\/strong>read the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/home\/features\/2010\/0610_gatesdadt\/DADTReport_FINAL_20101130%28secure-hires%29.pdf\">Report of the<br \/>\nComprehensive Review of the Issues Associated with a Repeal of &#8216;Don\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell&#8217;<\/a>&#8221; (Nov. 30, 2010)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The deficit, the economic downturn, and the proposal on what steps must be taken to improve our financial future &#8211;<\/strong> read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/templatelab.com\/the-moment-of-truth-final-report\/\">The Moment of Truth: Report of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform<\/a>&#8221; (Dec. 2010)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Internet tracking and the need for the equivalent of a &#8220;Do Not Call&#8221; list &#8211; <\/strong>read the Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/opa\/2010\/12\/privacyreport.shtm\">news release<\/a> (Dec. 1, 2010) and the staff report &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/os\/2010\/12\/101201privacyreport.pdf\">Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change: A Proposed Framework for Businesses and Policymakers<\/a>&#8221; (Dec. 2010)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The leaked State Dept.&#8217;s embassy cables<\/strong>, dubbed &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/213.251.145.96\/cablegate.html\">Cablegate: 250,000 US Embassy Diplomatic Cables<\/a>&#8221; by WikiLeaks (released beginning Nov. 28, 2010), and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/secretary\/rm\/2010\/11\/152078.htm\">Remarks to the Press on the Release of Confidential Documents<\/a>&#8221; (Nov. 29, 2010). (WikiLeaks was forced forced to move from WikiLeaks.org when its U.S. domain host terminated its relationship with the site, and it now is hosted by a Swiss domain. You can read about that via various news sites online including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2010\/12\/03\/131776036\/wikileaks-dropped-by-domain-name-provider\">National Public Radio<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Congressional approval and anticipated signing of the Claims Settlement Act<\/strong> that will &#8220;provide long-awaited funding for the agreements reached in the Pigford II lawsuit, brought by African American farmers; the Cobell lawsuit, brought by Native Americans over the management of Indian trust accounts and resources; and four separate water rights suits made by Native American tribes &#8211; read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bia.gov\/idc\/groups\/public\/documents\/text\/idc012370.pdf\">Bureau of Indian Affairs news release<\/a> (Nov. 30, 2010), the <a href=\"http:\/\/origin.www.usda.gov\/wps\/portal\/usda\/usdahome?contentidonly=true&amp;contentid=2010\/11\/0625.xml\">transcript of a media briefing<\/a> by the Dept. of Agriculture (Nov. 29, 2010), and the <a href=\"http:\/\/frwebgate.access.gpo.gov\/cgi-bin\/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&amp;docid=f:h4783enr.txt.pdf\">text of the legislation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/gpologo.gif\" alt=\"Government Printing Office logo\" width=\"60\" height=\"58\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"small\">UWW\u2019s Andersen Library is a federal depository with many federal, state, local, and international documents on a variety of current and relevant issues available to you in print, microfiche, CD-ROM, and online. Come check out your government at Andersen Library!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Government has been in the news lately for quite a few reasons, including these: The military&#8217;s &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; policy &#8211; read the &#8220;Report of the Comprehensive Review of the Issues Associated with a Repeal of &#8216;Don\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/6223\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,35],"tags":[3290,3291,3285,335,783,3295,988,3294,3287,3284,3244,545,3292,3293,3286],"class_list":["post-6223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","category-infogov","tag-claims-settlement-act","tag-cobell","tag-dont-ask-dont-tell","tag-federal-government","tag-government-info","tag-government-policy","tag-lawsuits","tag-military-policy","tag-national-commission-on-fiscal-responsibility-and-reform","tag-online-reports","tag-policy","tag-state-dept","tag-u-s-dept-of-agriculture","tag-usda","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6223"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20595,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6223\/revisions\/20595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}