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- Reagan: Remarks on Signing the Garn-St Germain Act (1982)
Government Record · 1982
President Ronald Reagan
President Reagan, October 1982: signed the Garn-St Germain Act loosening limits on savings and loans, calling it 'the first step in our administration's comprehensive program of…
- Reagan: Remarks on the Air Traffic Controllers Strike (1981)
Government Record · 1981
President Ronald Reagan
President Reagan, August 3, 1981: told striking air traffic controllers that if they did not return to work within 48 hours they would lose their jobs.
- Reagan: Veto of the Fairness in Broadcasting Act (1987)
Government Record · 1987
President Ronald Reagan
President Reagan, June 1987: vetoed S. 742, which would have written the Fairness Doctrine into law, calling it unconstitutional content regulation of the press.
- Recommendations for COVID-19 Vaccines in Infants, Children, and Adolescents: 2026-2027
Document · 2026
American Academy of Pediatrics
The AAP's 2026-2027 policy statement maintaining its own COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for infants, children and adolescents despite the federal schedule change and the pending litigation.
- Recommended childhood immunization schedule–United States, 2000
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2000
ACIP, AAP, AAFP
By 2000 the schedule added hepatitis B (3 doses), Hib (4), IPV (4), pneumococcal conjugate PCV7 (4), varicella (1) and 2nd MMR, on top of DTaP…
- Records Reveal ICE Using Mass Surveillance Database to Track People With Aid of Local Law Enforcement
Document · 2019
ACLU of Northern California
ACLU of Northern California, 2019: records obtained through a FOIA lawsuit show more than 9,000 ICE agents had access to Vigilant Solutions' plate database under a…
- Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers v. Regan (8th Cir. 2023)
Court Filing · 2023
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Federal appeals court, November 2023: threw out EPA's total chlorpyrifos food ban as arbitrary, saying EPA should have considered keeping some uses. Chlorpyrifos tolerances went back…
- Regulation (EU) 2024/1183: European Digital Identity Framework
Government Record · 2024
European Parliament and Council of the European Union
The EU law creating the European Digital Identity Wallet. It says use of the wallet shall be voluntary and nonusers must not be disadvantaged.
- Remarks: DoD Acquisition and Logistics Excellence Week Kickoff, Bureaucracy to Battlefield (September 10, 2001)
Transcript · 2001
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's speech the day before 9/11, in which he said the Pentagon could not track $2.3 trillion in transactions.
- Rep. Tony Wied: 10-Year Ban on Members of Congress Becoming Lobbyists (2026)
Government Record · 2026
Office of Rep. Wied (wied.house.gov)
Rep. Tony Wied, July 2026: introduced the SERVE Act, a 10-year lobbying ban for former members of Congress, compared with today's 1 year for House members…
- Reply Brief of Plaintiff-Appellant, Mosley v. Emerson, No. COA26-132 (2026)
Court Filing · 2026
Prisha Mosley, by counsel
Mosley’s reply argues that HB 805 revived malpractice and negligent-infliction claims and that she deserves trial on fraud, facilitating fraud, and civil conspiracy. It is party…
- Report from Special Counsel Robert K. Hur
Government Record · 2024
Robert K. Hur, Special Counsel
Hur declined charges concerning President Biden’s classified documents. The report’s evidence and stated reasoning must be considered rather than reducing the decision to an assertion of…
- Report of Special Counsel David Weiss (2025)
Government Record · 2025
Special Counsel David C. Weiss, U.S. Department of Justice
Special Counsel David Weiss, January 2025: his final report says he won convictions in both Hunter Biden cases, a guilty plea on all tax counts and…
- Report of the Corporate Fraud Task Force 2008
Government Record · 2008
U.S. Department of Justice
Stewart’s five-month prison sentence followed conspiracy, obstruction, and false-statement convictions. It was not an insider-trading conviction.
- Report of the Public Inquiry into the 2022 Public Order Emergency (Rouleau Commission)
Government Record · 2023
Public Order Emergency Commission
The five-volume Rouleau Commission report found the statutory threshold met. Later courts reached contrary legal conclusions; the Commission finding was not the final judicial ruling.
- Report of the Special Deputy Chicago Police Superintendent (Goldston Report)
Government Record · 1990
Chicago Police Department Office of Professional Standards
The 1990 report found systematic abuse and identified at least 50 potential victims, not more than 100. The opened mirror is principally scanned; text accessibility is…
- Report of the Special State’s Attorney (Egan/Boyle Report)
Government Record · 2006
Edward J. Egan and Robert D. Boyle
The special prosecutors found credible evidence supporting prosecution in Wilson’s case and described other abuse allegations, but state prosecutions were barred by limitations.
- Report to the Director of National Intelligence on Commercially Available Information
Government Record · 2022
ODNI Senior Advisory Group Panel on Commercially Available Information
Declassified report to the Director of National Intelligence (2022): location data on millions of Americans is for sale, and intelligence agencies can buy it as "publicly…
- Report to the National Security Council by the Executive Secretary (Lay), NSC 159/4
Government Record · 1953
National Security Council; approved by President Dwight D. Eisenhower
A 1953 National Security Council paper approved by President Eisenhower ordering urgent plans to keep the Executive Branch running in a nuclear war and to relocate…
- Report to the President by the Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States (Rockefeller Commission, 1975)
Government Record · 1975
Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States
The 1975 presidential commission report on CIA domestic activities. It found that some were plainly unlawful, including parts of Operation CHAOS, the CIA's program of collecting…
- REPUBLIC Act, Senate Report 118-316
Government Record · 2024
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
A 2024 Senate committee report stating that Presidential Emergency Action Documents from the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations authorized suspending habeas corpus, detention, censorship and travel…
- Research, Patrick J. Dennis
Document · 2022
Patrick J. Dennis
The airline rebuttal authors expressly disclaim interested-party funding. Together with publication of critical studies, this cuts against an unsupported blanket claim that critical research is purchased…
- Reshoring Initiative 2022 Data Report
Document · 2023
Reshoring Initiative
The Reshoring Initiative's 2022 report: a record 364,904 manufacturing jobs announced as coming back to the U.S. or from foreign investment. These are announcements, not jobs…
- Response to Petition to Commute Chelsea Manning’s Sentence to Time Served
Government Record · 2017
Obama White House
Manning had received a 35-year sentence; President Obama commuted it in January 2017. A commutation reduced the sentence but did not erase the conviction.