DOCUMENTS IN THE NEWS - 2003
United States Government and Its Officials
Documents in the News identifies issues about
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Last updated on August 28,
2003
Federal
Budget FY 2004
- Budget and appendix can be downloaded by chapter or in their
entirety
- Receipts and expenditures available in several spreadsheet formats
- Historical Tables in one pdf file
Budget and
Economic Outlook: An Update (CBO)
- Congressional Budget Office projects a total budget deficit of $480
billion in FY 2004 before budget situation improves
- Does not include the costs of rebuilding Iraq
- Released August 2003
Bureau of Public
Debt
- Annual public debt to the penny beginning 1791
- Monthly figures for past year and daily figures for last
month
Government Secrecy
- Access to
Information Post 9/11 (OMB Watch)
- Describes federal information taken off the web, including
EPA's
Risk
Management Plans for chemical accidents
- Pipeline mapping from the Dept. of Transportation
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (chemical security)
- FAA enforcement materials
- Maps from the National Imagery and Mapping Service and Bureau of
Transportation Statistics
- Cites alternative resources, including the Right-to-Know Network for toxic
spills
- Balancing
Information Access Since September 11 (ALA GODORT)
- Annotated bibliography of articles on federal news, FOIA, and web
shutdowns between September 11, 2001 and May 2002
- Government Openness at Issue as Bush Holds on to
Records
- Article by Adam Clymer appearing in the New York Times on January 3,
2003, p. A1
- Reviews restrictions on filling Freedom of Information Act requests,
court proceedings, and Presidential Records since 9/11
- Available online through Academic Universe (UMich
Only)
- Memo
from Andrew Card (FAS)
- White House memo asking agencies to review and scrub web sites of
information that might assist terrorists
- Memo dated March 19, 2002
- See also Presidential
Records
Government
Information Collection
Background
- Mission launched on January 16, 2003
- Broke up over Texas, 15 minutes before landing in Florida, on February
1, 2003
Columbia Accident
Investigation Board Report
- Report blames piece of foam at launch and NASA's corporate culture for
the accident
- Board headed by Harold Gehman and released on August 26, 2003
NASA STS-107
Mission
- Information about Columbia and crew of STS-107
- Experiments planned, press kit
Astronaut
Biographies (ABC)
- Group photos and brief biographies
Columbia
Shuttle Breaks Up Over Texas (CNN)
NASA Press Briefings
President's
Address to the Nation
- Statement on the Columbia tragedy made on Feb. 1, 2003 at 2 p.m.
Report
of the Special Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident
(Rogers Commission)
- Causes of the accident on liftoff in January 1986
- Likely cause was O rings
- Recommendations for future
Safety Reports
- Aerospace Safety
Advisory Panel (NASA)
- Annual reports since 1971 on safety, budget, and contracting issues in
the space program
- The 2001 report includes the recommendation for a crew escape module
in the space shuttle
- General
Accounting Office
- Numerous reports on the space shuttle, cost and safety issued since
1994
- Keyword search: "space shuttle" (using quotation marks)
- Protecting
the Space Shuttle from Meteoroids and Orbital Debris (NAS,
1997)
- Space shuttle not designed for dealing with orbital debris, the result
of previous space launches
- Report encourages NASA to undertake additional risk assessments
Space
Shuttle Columbia Accident (Evergreen College)
- Extensive links to world news coverage (Israel, Russia, Britain),
Texas and Louisiana State Government
- Articles from Nacogdoches, Texas and Baton Rouge,
Louisiana
Space Shuttle Columbia
and Her Crew (NASA)
- Press releases on the investigation
- Alerts on handling the debris field
- Mission and crew information
- Memorial services and thoughts of the families
Space
Shuttle Tragedy (CBS)
- News coverage
- Biographies of astronauts and interactive display of Challenger
tragedy
State
of
the Union Address - 2003
- Speech delivered by President Bush to Congress and the nation on
January 28, 2003
- Outlines the weapons Iraq has not destroyed and their possible impact
on terrorism
- Proposed tax cuts, Medicare reform, AIDS assistance, energy reduction
programs, mentoring for children of prisoners
Canadian Tax
Forms
- Site includes forms and instructions for individuals, business and
non-profits
- Recommendations for tax advice
Detroit Tax Forms
- Tax forms for the 1998-2001 filing years as of 1/6/03
Federal
Tax Forms (IRS)
- Tax forms, instructions, and publications in PDF (Adobe Acrobat),
PCL, PostScript, and SGML format
- See "eyeglasses" at the bottom of the screen for keyword searching
- Although the tax forms print well, the tax booklets may be too long to
effectively print
- Many reproducible tax forms also available at the Documents
Center
Michigan
2002 Tax Forms (Treasury Department)
- All forms available in Adobe Acrobat
- Provides link for free Acrobat software and tax assistance
information
Michigan State and
City Tax Forms
- Alternative source for state tax forms since 1996
- Best links to Michigan city tax forms
State Tax Forms
(LSU)
- Clear listing of links to tax forms from various states
President's
Proposal
- Official White House summary of President's tax cut proposal
- Reduces tax percentages, eliminates double tax on dividends, and
extends unemployment benefits
Tax
Cut Law (PL 108-27)
- Text and summary of the tax cut bill (H.R. 2)signed into law on May
28, 2003
- Includes rate reduction, elimination of marriage penalty, downsizing
dividend tax
- Web site includes legislative history, roll call votes
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