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Weekly Digest Bulletin … USA.gov
Congress.gov Launched Today – New Website for Finding Free Legislative Information
The Library of Congress unveiled Congress.gov today. It’s a new website that will eventually replace THOMAS.gov as the government’s site for accessing free, fact-based legislative information.
The Congress.gov site includes bill status and summary, bill text, House and Senate member profiles, and a number of new features, including effective display on mobile devices. Learn more about the new site.
Pollution Prevention Week – Find Out How You Can Prevent Pollution
It’s Pollution Prevention Week. The best way to protect the Earth and its people is to stop creating pollution in the first place – that realization became America’s official policy in 1990 with the Federal Pollution Prevention Act’s, declaration that, “Pollution should be prevented or reduced at its source, whenever possible.”
Learn how to prevent pollution at home, work and at school.
Current Travel Warnings from the State Department
The U.S. State Department recommends that Americans avoid or consider the risk of travel to certain countries.
These travel warnings are issued when:
- long-term, protracted conditions make a country dangerous or unstable.
- the U.S. Government‘s ability to assist American citizens is constrained due to the closure of an embassy or consulate or because of a drawdown of its staff.
See the current list of countries.
2014 Diversity Visa Lottery Registration is from October 2 – November 3
Online registration for the 2014 Diversity Visa Lottery will begin on Tuesday, October 2, 2012 at 12:00 noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), and end on Saturday, November 3, 2012 at 12:00 noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4).
This congressionally mandated program makes available up to 55,000 diversity visas every year. Winners are randomly drawn from the people who enter and meet strict eligibility requirements. In order to be eligible, you must be from a country with low rates of immigration to the United States and meet the education or work experience requirements.
If you plan to apply, watch out for fraudulent websites posing as official U.S. government websites. Some companies posing as the U.S. government have sought money in order to “complete” DV entry forms. There is no charge to download and complete the Electronic Diversity Visa Entry Form. To learn more, see the Department of State warning.
Find out if you’re eligible to enter the Diversity Visa Lottery and learn how to apply.
If You’re Feeling Anxious or Depressed, You Can Find Help
More than 350,000 people took their own lives in the past year, and today we are losing more military soldiers to suicide than battle, according to Secretary of Army, John McHugh, who recently briefed America on the National Suicide Prevention Strategy.
If you or someone you know is feeling anxious or depressed, you can call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline 24 hours a day at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or you can chat with a counselor online.
Veterans and their families can call 1-800-273-8255 or go to Veterans Crisis Line for help preventing suicide.
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UCS – September 25: Center for Science and Democracy symposium
Lewis M. Branscomb Science and Democracy Forum Symposium: Improving Citizen Access to Governmental Scientific Information
The Union of Concerned Scientists invites you to a free symposium focusing on identifying and removing barriers to citizen access to governmental scientific information on Tuesday, September 25. You can attend via webcast or in person at the Newseum in Washington, DC. As space is limited, people who register by September 12 will receive first priority.
We have a great line-up of speakers, including: The Honorable John Porter, Research!America Chair and former representative (R-IL) Representative Ed Markey (D-MA) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Adminstrator Jane Lubchenco USA Today Reporter Dan Vergano Consumer Product Safety Commission Chair Inez Tenenbaum Curtis Brainard of the Columbia Journalism Review
The symposium will run from 8:30 a.m. – noon EDT, with breakfast available to in-person attendees at 8:00 a.m.
The event is co-sponsored by the UCS Center for Science and Democracy and the First Amendment Center.
The symposium will be preceded by two events: A webinar on Wednesday, September 19, at 2:00 p.m. EDT (note date change). To kick off the series, UCS will host a webinar to highlight the consequences of inadequate access to government scientific information and recent attempts to restrict access. The webinar will feature reporter Joe Davis from the Society of Environmental Journalists and Daniel Schuman from the Sunlight Foundation. A conference call on Monday, September 24, at 7:00 p.m. EDT. UCS will introduce Dr. Andrew Rosenberg, the new director of the UCS Center for Science and Democracy, and provide insight as to how the new center plans to address the challenge of access to government data.
Click here for the agenda and more information on the forum. We look forward to you joining us and contributing to the conversation!
For more information, please contact Pallavi Phartiyal at pphartiyal@ucsusa.org.
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Tonight: Kick-off call with Barack Obama and Joe Biden
Yesterday, Barack Obama and Joe Biden began their 2012 campaign.
Tonight, they want to talk to you.
At 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time, the President and Vice President will be holding a campaign conference call for the supporters and volunteers who’ve powered this movement for the past two years. I hope you can join us.
As the 2012 campaign kicks off, we want to thank you for all that you’ve done, give a briefing on next steps as we build a new organization upon the foundation we’ve built together, and get everyone fired up for what lies ahead.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/m/55c11136/6c0d017d/178a4de3e/118825e7/4248304169/VEsH/
We’ve accomplished a lot over the last two years — but our work is far from done.
President Obama needs to continue his efforts to put Americans back to work and more fundamentally change the way business gets done in Washington. And while he keeps his focus on the job he was elected to do, he’s relying more than ever on supporters like you to start laying the groundwork — so we’re prepared for when the race hits full speed next year.
You can get in on the ground floor as we build this campaign.
Please join the President on tonight’s phone call. RSVP here to get a call at 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time, or to listen in online:
http://my.barackobama.com/2012KickoffCall
If you can’t make tonight’s kick-off call, there will be another one this Thursday, April 7th, at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time. David Axelrod and I will talk about the strategy for the first few months of this campaign — RSVP here for that second call.
Talk to you soon,
Messina
Jim Messina
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From Wisconsin to Washington D.C.
I don’t know about you, but I am getting sick of this crap. People are really hurting. Jobs are not coming back fast enough, people are still losing their homes, and what are Republicans doing? The GOP is using the budget crisis to wage a war on working people.
Join our DFA Live call on Tues., March 1 at 8PM EST with Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) to talk about what Republicans are planning to do and what you can do to stop them.
From Wisconsin to Washington D.C., Republicans are taking advantage of a crisis they created when they gave away tax cuts to the rich.
Seriously, Speaker Boehner is threatening to shut down the government by March 4th if they can’t cut funding of groceries for low-income pregnant women and children, but two months ago he insisted upon tax cuts for people making more than a quarter of a million dollars a year.
That’s not all, Republicans in Congress are insisting on cutting many vital programs to support police, fire fighters, teachers, nurses, and the list goes on and on. Not to mention the fact that even though Social Security does not contribute to the deficit, Republicans are insisting that cuts to Social Security should be on the table.
This DFA Live will also feature Nancy Altman, Co-Director of Social Security Works. She will explain how the budget, Social Security and jobs are linked and what we can do to protect the vital programs that keep our communities strong.
Sign up now for the DFA Live on March 1 at 8PM EST with Sen. Sherrod Brown and Nancy Altman.
Cuts to Social Security and other vital programs are job killers. Speaker Boehner says that if the Republicans kill jobs, then “So be it.”
We believe Americans deserve a budget that creates jobs and protects vital programs with no cuts to Social Security.
Join our DFA Live on Tues., March 1 at 8PM to learn more about the issues and find out what you can do before March 4th to stop the Republicans.
Thanks for everything you do,
-Levana
Levana Layendecker, Communication Director
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