NextGovreports on privacy questions surrounding a Department of Homeland Security data-sharing project:For the third year in a row, Congress as part of the Homeland Security spending bill prohibited DHS from using appropriated funds to stand up the National Immigration Information Sharing Operation. To start the flow of funding, the Homeland Security secretary must certify that the project — designed to give intelligence and law enforcement agencies access to DHS immigration information — compli

From the news that all 600,000 African elephants will be extinct by 2025 at current rates of poaching, according to figures from the International Fund for Animal Welfare, to Congress' approval of a bill that will allow three wheelers to get funding from the Department of Energy, a lot happened this week in green. Our Best of Green winner Chris Jordan visited the Midway Atoll, right in the heart of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and photographed sobering pictures of albatrosses stuffed with pla

by P.J. Blount with the blog faculty H.R. 3853: To provide for the establishment of Commercial Space Transportation Cooperative Research and Development Centers of Excellence, and for other purposes was introduced on October 20, 2009 by Rep Kosmas, Suzanne M. (FL-24): HR 3853 IH 111th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3853 To provide for the establishment of Commercial Space Transportation Cooperative Research and Development Centers of Excellence, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE

Credit: Johnson There’s a small office on Capitol Hill that is playing a major role in determining whether Americans will have affordable health care or more renewable energy in the coming year. The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan body in charge of providing economic data to Congress, has an incredible amount of power over our political system. In June, this office released a report on the Affordable Health Choices Act showing that enacting the proposal would increase the def

A “corrupt criminal organization” that caused the global financial crisis. That’s right. But Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, is not referring to any bonus-loving cowboys’ Wall Street hedge fund or renegade bank department. He is speaking about that low-income housing and voter registration powerhouse ACORN. Video after the jump by David Weigel, who has been following this story for TCI sister site The Washington Independent. “Now Congress has voted in the House and the Senate to unfund ACOR