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Note: The following text is a quote: www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-presidents-council-advisors-science-and-technology Home • Briefing Room • Presidential Actions • Executive Orders The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release April 21, 2010 Executive Order -- President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to establish an advisory council on science, technology, and innovation, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Establishment. The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) is hereby established. The PCAST...

Note: The following text is a quote: www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-establishing-presidents-management-advisory-board Home • Briefing Room • Presidential Actions • Executive Orders The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release April 19, 2010 Executive Order-- Establishing the President's Management Advisory Board EXECUTIVE ORDER ESTABLISHING THE PRESIDENT'S MANAGEMENT ADVISORY BOARD By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Establishment. There is established within the General Services Administration (GSA) the President's Management Advisory Board (PMAB). Sec. 2. Mission. (a) The PMAB shall provide...

... The real issue at stake in Cheney is the right of executive-branch officials to seek private advice as they see fit. The Court unfortunately chose not to take this on directly, though Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion makes it clear that the majority believes courts ought to be wary of intruding on the Executive Branch. "Special considerations applicable to the president and the vice president suggest that the courts should be sensitive to requests by the government" in such cases, he writes. Then there's the 1972 Federal Advisory Committee Act or FACA. In Cheney, a couple of activist groups...

<p>As members of the guild, we realize editorial writers have to be angry about something. But the standards for outrage are clearly slipping when papers all over America are reduced to denouncing a hunting trip by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Vice President Dick Cheney.</p>

WORKING DOCUMENT MOVES ANGLICAN CHURCHES CLOSER TOGETHER Special Report By David W. Virtue ORLANDO, FL-A working document that could unite multiple branches of the Anglican Church in the US was unveiled to 50 leaders including bishops, priests and laity, with the working title of Federation of Anglican Churches in America (FACA) at the third U.S. Anglican Congress being held here. "FACA is a spiritual organization and fellowship of Anglican Jurisdictions and/or Dioceses in the United States and Canada that hold to the primacy of Holy Scripture, the Ecumenical Creeds and Councils and adhere to the 39 Articles of Religion, and...