2013 Formal Statements

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• Comment on proposed rule making on Inmate Access to Legal Reference Materials

  Letter to Brian Callahan, Associate Attorney, New York State Commission of Correction
  May 17, 2013

• To urge you to promptly establish and provide active White House leadership for a Security Classification Reform Steering Committee to help correct what you have called “the problem of overclassification.”

  Letter to President Obama
  April 23, 2013

• To express our support for Chairman Leahy’s and Sen. Lee’s ECPA Amendments Act, S. 607

  Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Leahy and Ranking Member Grassley
  April 22, 2013

• To express our continued opposition to CISPA following its markup by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI)

  Letter to House of Representatives
  April 15, 2013

• To urge you to open the markup of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), HR 624, scheduled for the week of April 8th

  Letter to Members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
  April 3, 2013

• In support of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 funding requests for the Government Printing Office (GPO) and the Library of Congress (LC)

  Testimony of Jean M. Wenger on Behalf of AALL, Medical Library Association, and Special Libraries Association
  House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Legislative Branch
  March 29, 2013

• To encourage the White House to renew its promise to veto the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA)

  Letter to Michael Daniel, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator
  March 19, 2013

• In support of the Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act

  Letter to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and Committee on House Administration
  March 12, 2013

• To let you know about our grave concerns with HR 624, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA)

  Letter to Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
  March 11, 2013

• In support of motion for issuance of peremptory writ and for preliminary injunction

  Declaration of AALL President Jean M. Wenger
  March 7, 2013

• To express our support for the Congressional Research Service Electronic Accessibility Act

  Letter to Representatives Lance and Quigley
  March 1, 2013

• To thank you for introducing “The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act” (FASTR)

  Letter to Senator Wyden
  February 25, 2013

• To thank you and share our support for your work to hold agencies accountable for implementation of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

  Letter to House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Issa and Ranking Member Cummings
  February 19, 2013

• To ask you to bring renewed attention to issues that continue to plague government-wide implementation, compliance, and enforcement of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

  Letter to President Obama
  February 19, 2013

• To express the appreciation of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) for the leadership of the Government Printing Office in providing no-fee permanent public access to federal information resources in tangible and electronic formats.

  Letter to Acting Public Printer Davita Vance-Cooks
  February 04, 2013

• Reply Comments to Notice of Inquiry Concerning Orphan Works and Mass Digitization

  Comments to US Copyright Office from American Association of Law Libraries, the Medical Library Association and Special Library Association
  February 1, 2013

• Public Policy Positions for the 113th Congress

  January 22, 2013