http://netvouz.com/garoldstone/tag/reform?feed=rss&pg=12 garoldstone's bookmarks tagged "reform" on Netvouz http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/20/AR2006092001356.html A week after the primary election was plagued by human error and technical glitches, Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) called yesterday for the state to scrap its $106 million electronic voting apparatus and revert to a paper ballot system for the November election. September 21, 2006; Page A01 garoldstone Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:52:47 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/20/AR2006092001908.html four dozen cards -- holding potentially hundreds or more votes -- had not yet been uploaded into a central server. Sep 21, 2006 garoldstone Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:46:05 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/27/AR2007062702828.html Linda H. Lamone, Maryland's elections administrator, is featured prominently promoting a Diebold Election Systems product that caused delays in last year's elections. Her appearance in the company's new marketing and sales brochure has critics asking whether she violated state ethics law by publicly promoting a vendor. garoldstone Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:55:24 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/23/AR2006012301855.html A new rule by the Environmental Protection Agency governing pesticide tests on humans is sparking protests from congressional Democrats and environmentalists, who say it fails to adequately protect vulnerable test subjects. Washington Post Jan 24, 2006 garoldstone Wed, 25 Jan 2006 02:40:53 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/13/AR2005101301810.html?nav=rss_print/asection garoldstone Sat, 15 Oct 2005 02:15:31 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/23/AR2007062301125.html A federal judge who used to authorize wiretaps in terrorism and espionage cases criticized yesterday President Bush's decision to order warrantless surveillance after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. "We have to understand you can fight the war [on terrorism] and lose everything if you have no civil liberties left when you get through fighting the war," said Royce C. Lamberth, a U.S. District Court judge in Washington and a former presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, speaking at the American Library Association's annual convention. July 30, 2007 garoldstone Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:21:01 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/24/AR2007012401956.html Economists are still sorting out the implications of the broad health-care proposals President Bush unveiled this week, but already some clear winners and losers are emerging. Jan 25, 2007 garoldstone Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:18:40 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/24/washington/24cong.html?hp&ex=1148443200&en=b4f58da213ff8a64&ei=5094&partner=homepage Resentment boiled among senior Republicans for a second day on Tuesday after a team of warrant-bearing agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation turned up at a closed House office building on Saturday evening, demanded entry to the office of a lawmaker and spent the night going through his files. May 24, 2006 NYT garoldstone Wed, 24 May 2006 13:27:54 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/03/AR2007080300696.html?nav=rss_nation A federal appeals court today ruled that the FBI violated the Constitution during a search of Rep. William J. Jefferson's Capitol Hill office last year and ordered the agency to return all privileged materials. Aug 3, 2007 The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia did not say that a raid on a congressional office was unconstitutional. But it ruled FBI agents skirted the law when they viewed paper documents during the May raid before giving the Louisiana Democrat an opportunity to challenge whether the papers were protected under the Constitution's "speech or debate" clause. garoldstone Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:13:18 GMT http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nationalsecurityletters/31580prs20070906.html A federal court today struck down the amended Patriot Act's National Security Letter (NSL) provision. The law has permitted the FBI to issue NSLs demanding private information about people within the United States without court approval, and to gag those who receive NSLs from discussing them. The court found that the gag power was unconstitutional and that because the statute prevented courts from engaging in meaningful judicial review of gags, it violated the First Amendment and the principle of separation of powers. garoldstone Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:46:50 GMT