Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2003: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session, on S. 2778 ... for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2003, and for Other Purposes

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Page 107 - Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin by some recipients of financial assistance from SBA.
Page 93 - Government and does not create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or equity by a party against the United States, its agencies or instrumentalities, its officers or employees, or any other person.
Page 454 - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia, as well as Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
Page 456 - Treasury to assist in their efforts to facilitate the exchange of criminal intelligence with state and local law enforcement. RISS...
Page 195 - It is the purpose of this Act, among other things, to, maintain the control of the United States over all the channels of interstate and foreign radio transmission; and to provide for the use of such channels, but not the ownership thereof, by persons for limited periods of time, under licenses granted by Federal authority, and no such license shall be construed to create any right, beyond the terms, conditions, and periods of the license.
Page 104 - Severe forms of trafficking in persons means sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained...
Page 275 - In 1979 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and, 187 nations have signed it.
Page 460 - There are a number of reasons for this demand, including the success of grant programs such as the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program, the Local Law Enforcement Block Grants Program, the COPS Technology Grant Program, and the Crime Identification Technology Act, which have provided seed money for justice information systems automation and integration. Also impacting the demand for SEARCH technical assistance and training services is the critical need of the nation's...
Page 460 - ... criminal justice system with respect to the development, operation, improvement and/or integration of all types of justice information systems. This significant program not only helps state and local agencies work more efficiently and effectively through the use of advanced information technology, but it also creates the foundation for a national information infrastructure for justice systems. SEARCH continues to experience an explosive growth in demand for the program.
Page 363 - Shaw, if you have a prepared statement, you may give that statement. It will be included in its entirety in the record and you may proceed as you wish.

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