National Do Not Call Registry

Do you remember registering your phone number on the Do Not Call Registry website a few years ago? Well, your registration is only effective for 5 years, so now is the time to re-register your phone number(s) so those pesky telemarketers can't call you! For more information on the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) National Do Not Call Registry program, visit the FAQ site. To dispel rumors of telemarketers calling your cell phones, the FTC released a statement explaining how Federal Communications Commission(FCC) regulations "prohibit telemarketers from using automated dialers to call cell phone numbers". Phew!

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Hurricanes, Petraeus, and Benchmarks, Oh My!

What a month September has been...Hurricane Humberto sprang up suddenly and struck the coast of Texas and Southwest Louisiana, General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker release their reports on the progress of the surge operations in Iraq, and several reports state that Iraq has failed to meet half of their benchmark goals.

Whether you are doing research on these topics for a paper, or you are tired of hearing/reading about these current events second hand and wish to read the original sources (and make your own judgments!) then this blog entry should make your day. Here are some government web sources on all things Humberto and Petraeus:

Hurricane Humberto

Senator Landrieu's Statement on Hurricane Humberto, FEMA Considerations

Census Bureau Media Advisory: "4.5 Million People Impacted"

FEMA Readies Response to Humberto

NOAA's Hurricane Humberto Advisory Archive

NOAA's Hurricane Preparedness Page

NOAA's National Hurricane Center


Iraq Progress & Benchmarks

Benchmark Assessment Report

GAO's Report to Congressional Committees-"Securing, Stabilizing, and Rebuilding Iraq: Iraqi Government Has Not Met Most Legislative, Security, and Economic Benchmarks"

Address by the President to the Nation on the Way Forward in Iraq

Videos of Iraq Report Testimonies by General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker Sept. 10, 2007

Statement of Ambassador Crocker Sept. 10, 2007

Statement of General Petraeus Sept. 10, 2007 "Report to the Congress on the Situation in Iraq

Renewal in Iraq-WhiteHouse.gov

Dept. of Defense-Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq, Quarterly Reports

Hearing Information on the Iraq War from U.S. House of Representatives, Armed Services Committee

U.S. House of Representative's Committee on Armed Services-Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations-Report

Report on the Independent Commission on the Security Forces in Iraq, General Jones, Sept. 6, 2007

Conducting a keyword search (i.e. "iraq progress") in our library catalog or at GPO's Catalog of U.S. Government Publications will also retrieve results from previous years.