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Government Documents in the News/1996 - United States Government and Its Officials
DOCUMENTS IN THE NEWS - 1996
United States Government and Its Officials
Adm. Mike Boorda |
Army Sexual Harassment |
Clinton's 2d Administration
Commerce Dept. Future |
Commerce Secretary Plane Crash
Congressional Medal of Honor |
Cost-of-Living Adjustment
Eliminated Federal Agencies |
Federal Budget/Shutdown
Inauguration |
Income Tax Forms |
State of the Union Address
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Last updated on September 21,
2004
Biography
- Official Navy biography of the Chief of Naval Operations
President
Clinton's Eulogy
Suicide
Note
- Excerpt of suicide note as it appeared in the Detroit News
- The full-text appears in the December 1996 issue of
Washingtonian but does not appear on the
Internet; contact the Washingtonian
for order information
Defense
Department Investigation
- Statement of zero tolerance policy on sexual harassment
- News releases from the Defense Department, Army and Air Force
- Surveys of the problem, case studies on a solution, announcement of
an investigatory panel
Military
Manpower
- Statistics on military and civilian personnel
- Includes number of women
Cabinet
Appointees, 1997-2000 (AllPolitics)
- List of cabinet and related posts
- Biographies of new appointees and related stories
- Front runners for those positions not yet announced
Joint Congressional Committee on
Inaurgural Ceremonies
- Members of committee, inaugural plans
- Inaugural addresses of previous Presidents
Politics
Now
- Extensive article on likely nominees for the cabinet
- Expected changes in the White House staff
Plum
Book
- Positions which the President may appoint
- Listing includes title, incumbent and salary scale
- Official title: United States Government Policy
and Supporting Positions
Lists 238 men receiving the Congressional
Medal of Honor during the Vietnamese War
Biographies and reasons for award
Description
- Boskin report submitted to Senate Finance Committee in December 1996
- Recommends revision of the consumer price index
Washington
Post
- Summary of report, BLS reaction,
testimony
Printed Version
- Toward a More Accurate Measure of the Cost of
Living
- Government Printing Office Distribution Information: Item No.
0769; SuDocs No. L 2.2:T 65/12-996
Web
Version
- Full text in pdf (Adobe Acrobat) format is 225K
- Should be accessible to UMich affiliates due to STAT-USA site
license; unknown whether available to those without general STAT-USA
Access
List of federal agencies eliminated or scheduled to be eliminated
by the 104th Congress
List not related to the government shutdown
Compiled by Bob Lopresti and distributed on GOVDOC-L
Federal Budget FY
1997
- Searchable text of the proposed budget submitted on February 5, 1996
- Includes historical tables of budget expenditures in text or
spreadsheet format
- Detailed appendix of agency expenditures, analyses, and mid-year
review of expenditures
Congressional
Budget Committees
Federal
Budget, FY96 (As proposed)
- Searchable interface to the text and statistical tables
- Midyear budgetary updates
President's
Balanced Budget Proposal
(June 13, 1995)
Balanced Budget Reconciliation
Act is H.R. 2491 (vetoed)
Balanced
Budget
Downpayment Act (H.R. 2880)
Government
Shutdown
- Continuing
Resolutions on the Government Shutdown
- The vetoed Continuing Budget Resolution, causing the
first government shutdown, is H.J.Res. 115
- The Continuing Budget Resolution without Medicare
provisions is H.J.Res. 122
- H.J.Res.125 extended the temporary operating budget
PL 104-31 (H.J.Res.108) until December 15, 1995
- H.J.Res. 134, H.Res. 336, and H.Con.Res. 131
reopened the government in January 1996
- H.J.Res. 170 kept the government open through April
24, 1996
- Omnibus Appropriations Act, meant
to resolve the issue for FY 1996, is H.R. 3019
(passed)
- Connect to THOMAS
for the texts, bill status, and debates
- CNN Coverage
- Articles on the politics of the shutdown and budget proposals
- Voting records on the relevant bills
- Links to the White House and Republican National Committee
- Search the index under "budget and shutdown"
- Costs
of the Shutdown (White House)
- President's Statement on the costs of the government shutdown,
January 3, 1996
- Shutdown '95 (Business
Information Network)
- Places to visit in Washington, D.C. during the December 1995
government shutdown
- The NBC link includes information for furloughed workers on
unemployment benefits
- Public comments on the shutdown
- The web site will be converted to a Washington Visitors' Guide
when the shutdown has ended
Final Congressional Appropriations
- Connect to GPO Access web sites at Purdue or
UCalif/San Diego
- Search Public Law file; use the keywords
appropriations and [name of agency] (e.g. appropriations
and agriculture)
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
- Many reproducible tax forms also available at the Documents
Center
Internal
Revenue Code
- Searchable by keyword or detailed table of contents
State Tax
Forms
- Links to state tax forms and information by state
State
Tax Information
- Annotated list of state tax information and forms
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