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		<title>Justice Department Asks the Supreme Court to Review the Affordable Care Act</title>
		<link>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/1606</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Justice filed a cert petition today asking the Supreme Court to review the 2-1 decision of the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit striking down a portion of the Affordable Care Act.   The following statement was released today regarding this action.
“The Department has consistently and successfully defended this law in several court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Justice Department Celebrates the United States&#8217; Entry into the Open Government Partnership</title>
		<link>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/1586</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/1586#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama made openness a priority of his Administration, committing to an “unprecedented level of openness in Government” on his first full day in office. 
In the years since that declaration more information has been released under Freedom of Information Act, and made available on government websites, than ever before. The federal government continues to use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Affordable Care Act Cases Dismissed by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals</title>
		<link>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/1551</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the Commonwealth of Virginia v. Kathleen Sebelius and Liberty University v. Geithner cases challenging the Affordable Care Act.  The Department of Justice issued the following statement: 
 “We welcome the dismissal of these two challenges to the Affordable Care Act.  We also continue to appreciate the rulings of other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Documenting How a Bill Becomes a Law</title>
		<link>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/1530</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/1530#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered about the legislative process that led to the creation of the Department of Justice in 1870? Or how Congress changed the law concerning telemarketers in 1998?
A number of digitized legislative histories compiled by the Department of Justice library staff throughout the years on laws of interest to department have now been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Victory for the Affordable Care Act</title>
		<link>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/1435</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/1435#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s ruling in the Thomas More Law Center v. Obama case dismissing the challenge to the Affordable Care Act – upholding the law as constitutional.  Tracy Schmaler, Deputy Director of the Office of Public Affairs released the following statement:
“We welcome the Sixth Circuit’s ruling today dismissing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improving Regulations: With Your Help</title>
		<link>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/1411</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/1411#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 18, 2011, President Obama ordered federal agencies (via Executive Order 13563) to review existing significant regulations to determine whether they should be modified, streamlined, expanded, or repealed.
As time passes and technologies, legal standards, and circumstances change, regulations may become outmoded, ineffective, insufficient, or excessively burdensome.
We want to make our regulatory program more effective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Northern District Court in Florida&#8217;s Order of a Stay of the Court&#8217;s Affordable Care Act Ruling</title>
		<link>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/1225</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/1225#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Judge Vinson of the Northern District Court in Florida ordered a stay of the court’s ruling  that would have halted implementation of the Affordable Care Act, pending the government’s appeal. Tracy Schmaler, Deputy Director of the Office of Public Affairs released the following statement:
“We appreciate the court&#8217;s recognition of the enormous disruption that would have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The District Court in Washington, DC&#8217;s Affordable Care Act Ruling</title>
		<link>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/1211</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/1211#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the ruling today out of the District Court in Washington, DC on the Affordable Care Act, Tracy Schmaler, Deputy Director of the Office of Public Affairs released the following statement:

&#8220;We welcome this ruling, which marks the third time a court has reviewed the Affordable Care Act on the merits and upheld it as constitutional. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Northern District Court in Florida&#8217;s Affordable Care Act Ruling</title>
		<link>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/1182</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/1182#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the ruling today out of the Northern District Court in Florida on the Affordable Care Act, Tracy Schmaler, Deputy Director of the Office of Public Affairs released the following statement:
&#8220;The department intends to appeal this ruling to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
&#8220;We strongly disagree with the court’s ruling today and continue to believe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honoring Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy</title>
		<link>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/1149</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/1149#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today, on the 50th anniversary of his swearing-in as Attorney General, the Department of Justice came together to celebrate the achievements and enduring contributions of Robert F. Kennedy.  Joined by Kennedy family members, including his wife, Ethel Kennedy, renowned civil rights leaders, historians and current and former Justice Department employees this event commemorated the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Government Plan 1.1</title>
		<link>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/908</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/908#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Justice Department’s revised Open Government Plan was ranked among the top 10 government agencies (ranked 8th) by outside groups. Furthermore, the department&#8217;s plan, “Version 1.1” was celebrated for “biggest improvement” over the original plan, with our new ranking nearly double the old one. To see the revised plan, released June 25, 2010, click here.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Justice Department: Committed to Environmental Stewardship</title>
		<link>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/558</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/558#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today , the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive announced the winners of the fourth annual Electronics Reuse and Recycling Campaign (ERRC). The Department of Justice is proud to have made that list – receiving the award for Centralized Agency Participation. Between October of 2008 and September of 2009 the Department of Justice recycled or reused 3,264,646 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Criminal Justice System as a Counterterrorism Tool: A Fact Sheet</title>
		<link>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/541</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/541#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration is committed to using every instrument of national power to fight terrorism – including intelligence and military operations as well as the criminal justice system.  As a counter-terrorism tool, the criminal justice system has proven incredibly effective in both incapacitating terrorists and gathering valuable intelligence from and about terrorists.  In every instance, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Statement on the Interrogation and Prosecution of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab</title>
		<link>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/536</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/536#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following statement was released by Matthew Miller, Director, Office of Public Affairs regarding the interrogation and prosecution of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab:
Since September 11, 2001, every terrorism suspect apprehended in the United States by either the Bush administration or the Obama administration has been initially arrested, held or charged under federal criminal law. Al Qaeda terrorists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Day at Justice.gov</title>
		<link>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/129</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/129#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the new Justice.gov. If you’re a regular visitor to our site, you’ll notice some changes today. If you are joining us for the first time, welcome.
The Department of Justice launches Justice.gov today in an effort to increase openness and transparency in government. Utilizing a variety of online tools, we will be able to [...]]]></description>
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