CSKT Water Compact/ Union Organizing

Missoulian: CSKT tribe, state officials reach Flathead water deal
Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission, Public Information Audio Recordings
 Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes - Montana – United States

Missoulian: NLRB issues rule to speed up union organizing
NLRB Issues Final Rule to Modernize Representation-Case Procedures
NLRB Representation Case-Procedures Fact Sheet
Federal Register

Wolves/ Federal Budget/ CIA Torture

Missoulian: Killing wolves could hurt, not help, livestock, study finds
Effects of Wolf Mortality on Livestock Depredations
“Predator control and sport hunting are often used to reduce predator populations and livestock depredations, – but the efficacy of lethal control has rarely been tested. We assessed the effects of wolf mortality on reducing livestock depredations in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming from 1987–2012 using a 25 year time series. The number of livestock depredated, livestock populations, wolf population estimates, number of breeding pairs, and wolves killed were calculated for the wolf-occupied area of each state for each year. The data were then analyzed using a negative binomial generalized linear model to test for the expected negative relationship between the number of livestock depredated in the current year and the number of wolves controlled the previous year.”

Missoulian: Budget would raise limits on political money
Missoulian: Multiemployer pensions could face cuts
H.R.4800 - Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015

Missoulian: Anti-terror program leaders had little experience
Senate Select Committee On Intelligence, Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program
“#14: CIA detainees were subjected to coercive interrogation techniques that had not been approved by the Department of Justice or had not been authorized by CIA Headquarters.

Prior to mid-2004, the CIA routinely subjected detainees to nudity and dietary manipulation. The CIA also used abdominal slaps and cold water dousing on several detainees during that period. None of these techniques had been approved by the Department of Justice. At least 17 detainees were subjected to CIA enhanced interrogation techniques without authorization from CIA Headquarters. Additionally, multiple detainees were subjected to techniques that were applied in ways that diverged from the specific authorization, or were subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques by interrogators who had not been authorized to use them. Although these incidents were recorded in CIA cables and, in at least some cases were identified at the time by supervisors at CIA Headquarters as being inappropriate, corrective action was rarely taken against the interrogators involved”

Insider Trading/ Drones/ Government Spending

Missoulian: Appeals court deals blow to US in insider cases
United States v. Newman and Chiasson

Missoulian: FAA issues commercial drone permits to 4 companies
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
FAA Grants Exemptions for Commercial UAS Movie and TV Production
“U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration has granted regulatory exemptions to six aerial photo and video production companies, the first step to allowing the film and television industry the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the National Airspace System. ”

Missoulian: Massive $1.1 trillion spending bill unveiled
H.R.4800 - Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015
Amendments to HR 4800
H.Amdt.864   — 113th Congress (2013-2014)
Description:        Amendment sought to reduce funding for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission by $17,578,000.

H.Amdt.863   — 113th Congress (2013-2014)
Description:        Amendment provides $1 million in funding within the Food and Nutrition Act for making those on the veterans' disability backlog list eligible for SNAP benefits.

H.Amdt.862   — 113th Congress (2013-2014)
Description:        Amendment sought to reduce funding for the Watershed Rehabilitation Program by $10 million and to apply the savings to the spending reduction account.

H.Amdt.861   — 113th Congress (2013-2014)
Description:        Amendment sought to zero out the $25 million in funding for the Watershed Rehabilitation Program and to apply the savings to the spending reduction account.

H.Amdt.860   — 113th Congress (2013-2014)
Description:        Amendment sought to ensure that $50 million will be available for the Emergency Conservation Program (drought relief) under the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978.

H.Amdt.859   — 113th Congress (2013-2014)
Description:        Amendment ensures that $11 million in funding within the Farm Service Agency goes towards the Emergency Conservation Program.

H.Amdt.858   — 113th Congress (2013-2014)
Description:        Amendment sought to increase funds for the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration Food Safety and Inspection Service by $5.5 million and decrease funds for the Farm Service Agency Salaries and Expenses by a similar amount.

H.Amdt.857   — 113th Congress (2013-2014)
Description:        Amendment reduces funding for the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration by $3.4 million and increases the funding for telemedicine and distance learning services in rural areas by a similar amount.

H.Amdt.856   — 113th Congress (2013-2014)
Description:        Amendment reduces funding for the Agricultural Marketing Service by $15.5 million and increases funding for the Foreign Agricultural Service by $10 million.

H.Amdt.855   — 113th Congress (2013-2014)
Description:        Amendment redirects $1 million in funding within the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service for the study of captive marine mammals.

H.Amdt.854   — 113th Congress (2013-2014)
Description:        Amendment sought to reduce funding for the Economic Research Service by $7,726,000 and to apply the savings to the spending reduction account.

H.Amdt.853   — 113th Congress (2013-2014)
Description:        Amendment reduces funding for the Economic Research Service by $3 million and increases funding for the Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer for Children program by a similar amount.

H.Amdt.852   — 113th Congress (2013-2014)
Description:        Amendment reduces funding for the Office of General Counsel by $2,181,000 and to apply the savings to the spending reduction account.

H.Amdt.851   — 113th Congress (2013-2014)
Description:        Amendment sought to reduce funding made available to seven undersecretaries' offices and one assistant secretary's office totaling $40,000 and to apply the savings to the spending reduction account.

H.Amdt.850   — 113th Congress (2013-2014)
Description:        Amendment reduces funding for the Office of Chief Financial Officer by $220,000 and increases funding for Office of Inspector General by a similar amount.

H.Amdt.849   — 113th Congress (2013-2014)
Description:        Amendment increases funding for the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service by $2.5 million for use against specialty crop pests and reduces funding for the Office of the Secretary by a similar amount.

H.Amdt.847   — 113th Congress (2013-2014)
Description:        Amendment increases funding for the USDA Office of Inspector General by $1 million and reduces funding for the Office of the Secretary by a similar mount.

H.Amdt.846   — 113th Congress (2013-2014)
Description:        Amendment increases funding for Child Nutrition Programs for use as grants to States in support of the school breakfast program by $8,150,000.