DHS Privacy Office: Annual Report to Congress
DHS Privacy Office: Annual Report to Congress

Author: Mary Ellen Callahan

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 1437924220

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The 5th annual report by the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) Privacy Office, which focuses on 3 key activities: (1) requiring compliance with the letter and spirit of fed. laws promoting privacy and centralizing Freedom of Info. Act (FOIA) and Privacy Act operations within the DHS Privacy Office; (2) providing educ. and outreach to build a culture of privacy and adherence to Fair Info. Practice Principles across the Dept.; and (3) communicating with the public through publications, public workshops, and meetings. This report provides a detailed explanation of the activities of the DHS Privacy Office, and the various methods employed in order to ensure that privacy is given appropriate consideration, weight, and protection throughout the Dept. Illus.

The Pig Book
The Pig Book

Author: Citizens Against Government Waste

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Published: 2013-09-17

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 146685314X

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The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of: - $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa - $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil - $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri - $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!) - $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California - $1 million for ornamental fish research Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, The Pig Book proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king!