Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1960. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. v, [1], 23, [1], 1, [1] p. Index. More

Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1957. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. vi, 20, 1, [3] p. More

Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1962. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. vi, 939-987, [1], i, [3] p. Illustration. More

Washington DC: Blair & Rives, Printers, 1836. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. 131, [1] pages. Some pages uncut. Some pagination issues (page 16 has only the 6 printed) Worn and frayed edges. Bound with one string at center of left side. Some page soiling and foxing. Table on Free White Persons, including heads of households at pages 21-24. The Admission to the Union Clause of the United States Constitution, found at Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1, authorizes the Congress to admit new states into the United States beyond the thirteen already in existence at the time the Constitution went into effect. The Constitution went into effect on June 21, 1788, after ratification by 9 of the 13 states, and the federal government began operations under it on March 4, 1789. Each new state has been admitted on an equal footing with those already in existence. Of the 37 states admitted to the Union by Congress, all but 6 have been established within an existing U.S. organized incorporated territory. When the people of a territory or a region thereof have grown to a sufficient population and make their desire for statehood known, in most cases Congress passed an enabling act authorizing the people of that territory or region to frame a proposed state constitution as a step toward admission to the Union. Although the use of an enabling act was a common historic practice, several states were admitted to the Union without one. The entry of several states into the Union has been delayed by complicating factors. Among them, Michigan, which petitioned Congress for statehood in 1835, was not admitted to the Union until 1837, because of a boundary dispute with the adjacent state of Ohio. More

Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2015. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. iii, [1], 116 pages. Minor wear and soiling noted. Serial No. 114-46. Senator Tim Murphy (Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania); Hon. Diana DeGette (Representative from Colorado); and Hon. Frank Pallone, Jr. (Representative from New Jersey) offered opening statements. Witnesses included Jerome Adams, Monica Bharel, Larry Wolk, and Mark Stringer were Witnesses. This was the fourth in a series of hearings examining prescription drugs and heroin addiction, the growing nightmare of one of America's biggest public health crises. More

Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1974. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. iii, [1], 163, [1] pages. Footnotes. [Excerpt] It is our view that the proper test is whether, in voting for impeachment, the member feels the President should be removed from office, that the prosecution should succeed. The standard of proof does not apply to the law. Standards of proof never apply to the law. One must be convinced as a matter of law that the offense, if proved, is constitutionally a valid charge. One then, we feel, must be convinced in the exercise of his political judgment that the best interests of the Nation warrant removal rather than retention of the officer. More

Washington DC: United States Congress, House of Representatives, House Armed Services Committee, Special Panel on Department of Energy Reorganization, 2000. Contemporary Xerox-style copy. Staplebound. [3], 5p pages, Appendix A (1 page), Appendix B (1 page), Appendix D (30 pages--statutory language). Congress passed a substantial reorganization of the Department of Energy (DOE) in Title 32 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 (P.L. 106-65). The legislation created a new semi-autonomous agency within DOE, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), with responsibility for the nation's nuclear weapons, non-proliferation, and naval reactors programs. Congress took this action in response to a major espionage scandal, decades of documented mismanagement at the Department, and numerous reports and studies that detailed weak management, confused lines of authority, and lack of mission focus within the Department's military nuclear programs. A Special Oversight Panel on DOE Reorganization was created to work with the NNSA on the timely and effective implementation of the DOE reorganization mandated by the new law. The Panel has a number of concerns with the implementation plan. Key among them is that the plan overemphasizes DOE control over the NNSA, undermines the semi-autonomy of the NNSA, and would violate key provisions of Title 32. It would place DOE personnel and officers in key NNSA positions by "dual-hatting" them. The plan would also retain DOE management and budget processes, organizational structures, and lines of authority that the Panel believes to be flawed and that Title 32 was intended to reform. The implementation plan provided no guidance concerning budget reforms required by Title 32 or use of tools to restructure. More

Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1930. Presumed First Edition, First printing [only 6500 copies printed]. Hardcover. [6], 92, [2] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Cover has wear and soiling. Some page soiling. Two names in ink noted on different end papers. This includes a scarce address by Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon. The purpose of the meeting was so that those representing the Government could consider plans to make more beautiful the city of Washington. Twenty-five years previously the key speaker was President Theodore Roosevelt. Those plans had not been sufficiently acted upon. Secretary Mellon, in his address, stated that "economy demands that the Government's activity should be adequately housed in buildings owned by the Government itself." The responsibility for the condemnation and purchase of sites and erection of most of these buildings has been placed by Congress on the Treasury Department and became, therefore, an integral part of Treasury activities. More

Washington DC: A. Boyd Hamilton, 1852. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [2], 550, [4] pages. Numerous Tables/tabular information. Some page foxing and discoloration noted. Bound in a 'library style' blue buckram binding. This volume includes the Report of The Secretary of the Navy, the annual report of the public sevice under the supervision of the Navy Department. The Report was submitted by William A. Graham, Secretary of the Navy on November 29, 1851. Following the short (16 page) summary report were a series of papers, identified by letters A through I and numbers 1 through 15. Among the topics of these attachments are: List of deaths, resignations and dismissions in the nave, since last report; Report of Lieutenant Edwin J. De Haven, relating to the expedition to the arctic seas in search of the British commander Sir John Franklin, and his companions (pages 23 to 41), Report of the board of examiners, in relation to the condition...of the naval academy at Annapolis, MD, and Report of Professor Page, relating to his experiments on the application of electro-magnetism as a motive poser in mechanics. More

Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 2006. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. iii, [1], 85, [5] pages. [H.A.S.C. No. 109-40]. Cover has some wear. Page corner creased toward rear. The Chairman stated "Our concern today is technology transfer of tools useful in combating terrorism, a broader topic than one may think. DOD has been working on force protection and installation protection mechanisms for long as we have had military installations, and continues to seek improvements. Not everything done by DOD is directly applicable to DHS and first responders needs, but much clearly is. We understand that much has been done on a largely informal basis to share good ideas between the departments." More

Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 2004. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. iv, 142, [6] pages. Illustrations. The Vision for Space Exploration (VSE) was a plan for space exploration announced on January 14, 2004 by President George W. Bush. It was conceived as a response to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the state of human spaceflight at NASA, and as a way to regain public enthusiasm for space exploration. The President's plan can be seen as having three distinct, but related aspects. The first aspect concerns current human space flight programs. The President proposes to complete construction of the International Space Station (ISS) by the end of the decade and to retire the Space Shuttle at that point. ISS research is to be reconfigured to focus on questions related to the impact on human health of spending long periods in space. Under the proposal, the U.S. participation in ISS is slated to end around 2016, although the Administration has said that that date may shift. More

Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1989. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. iii, [1], 183, [5] pages. Illustrations. Appendix. Ink notation and pencil erasure residue on front page. Mail label mark on back page. The hearing addressed: Usefulness of space power research to ground-based nuclear reactor systems --Personnel development and educational needs of the universities as they relate to the development of space nuclear power systems --Nuclear power plants for space vehicles developed --and Role of the universities in supporting the space nuclear power technology development. Witnesses from the Air Force, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Energy, the General Accounting Office, Westinghouse Hanford, Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory testified. More

Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 2005. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. iii, [1], 72 pages. Footnotes. Tables. The purpose of H.R. 2933 was to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to make an alien inadmissible for U.S. entry if: (1) such alien has been deported for criminal street gang participation; or (2) the consular officer or the Secretary of Homeland Security knows or has reasonable grounds to believe that such alien is a member of a criminal street gang seeking U.S. entry in furtherance of gang-related crimes or activities, or is a member of a designated criminal street gang. Defines: (1) criminal street gang; and (2) gang crime. Makes an alien deportable who: (1) is a street gang member convicted of committing or attempting to commit a gang crime; or (2) is determined by the Secretary to be a member of a designated criminal street gang. More