From: Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
Posted by Phil Swagel, CBO Director on February 24, 2025.
Fifty years ago today, Alice Rivlin was appointed to lead the Congressional Budget Office as the agency’s first director. Gathering in a single room in the Dirksen Senate Office Building (CBO’s original home), Rivlin and a few assistants began the process of standing up a new nonpartisan agency dedicated to supporting the Congressional budget process.
FROM: Jenny S. Silbiger, AALL Vice President.
“I am so grateful to all of our members who make AALL an informed, educated, and wholehearted organization. I know we are not alone in the work that we do, as access to legal information impacts all aspects of the legal profession, and I am heartened to know that we are just one organization of many who are working diligently to make a positive difference in the world.”
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The White Collar Crime Institute of the American Bar Association is considered the “premier gathering for legal professionals specializing in white-collar crime”. It is being held in Miami, FL , March 4-7, 2025. For additional information and registration, click here.
During the week ending February 21, 2025 we have received listings of 25 Government and Administrative Law Summaries, 24 Constitutional Law summaries, 63 Criminal Law Summaries, 1 White Collar Law Summary , 1 Internet Law Summary . We plan is to continue posting opinion summaries, under corresponding areas of law, weekly whenever possible in order to keep blog readers updated. To gain access to these case summaries, click on the corresponding links below:
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Report: February 13, 2025.
Congressional Budget (CBO) cost estimates, which represent the agency’s best assessment of a bill’s budgetary effects, can be subject to uncertainty arising from various sources. CBO describes how it addresses six common sources of uncertainty.
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Materials consulted in preparing this posting were curated from various sources including the recently introduced Deep Research by OpenAI.
With Elon Musk at the helm of the Department of Government Efficiency, various agencies within the U.S. government may experience restructuring aimed at streamlining operations, reducing costs, and integrating advanced technologies. One area likely to be affected is government agency libraries—institutions that provide critical research, archival, and information services to federal employees, policymakers, and researchers. These libraries, usually housed within agencies such as the Library of Congress, the National Archives, and the Department of Defense (DoD), play an essential role in supporting government functions. This essay explores how Musk’s efficiency-driven policies might reshape these libraries, with potential consequences for automation, digitization, data management, funding, privacy and information security. Although the focus of this posting is U.S. government libraries, its implications are far reaching.
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During the week ending February 14, 2025 we have received listings of 19 Government and Administrative Law Summaries, 18 Constitutional Law summaries, 59 Criminal Law Summaries, 3 White Collar Law Summaries , 4 Intellectual Property summaries . We plan is to continue posting opinion summaries, under corresponding areas of law, weekly whenever possible in order to keep blog readers updated. To gain access to these case summaries, click on the corresponding links below:
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A message from William R. Bay, President of the American Bar Association, February 10, 2025:
It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accordance with the rule of law and in an orderly manner that respects the lives of affected individuals and the work they have been asked to perform.Instead, we see wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself, such as attacks on constitutionally protected birthright citizenship, the dismantling of USAID and the attempts to criminalize those who support lawful programs to eliminate bias and enhance diversity.
