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Monthly Budget Review, November 2007 Cost Estimate for Food and Energy Security Act of 2007 November 6, 2007: “The amendment would modify and extend the major farm income support, food and nutrition, land conservation, trade promotion, rural development, research, forestry, energy, specialty crops, and crop insurance programs administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). …
“The OECD broadband portal provides access to a range of broadband-related statistics gathered by the OECD. Policy makers must examine a range of indicators which reflect the status of individual broadband markets in the OECD. The OECD has indentified five main categories which are important for assessing broadband markets…Penetration (actual lines); Usage (household surveys); Coverage …
Fact Sheet: “Secretary Chertoff highlighted the Departments progress on immigration efforts. More than 76 miles of pedestrian fence have been completed on the Southwest border, and the number of Border Patrol agents is increasing: currently roughly 15,000, it is scheduled to be more than 18,300 by the end of next year. Over the past year, …
Press release: “Today Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, and Rep. Tom Allen introduced the Non-Prescription Drug Modernization Act which would permit FDA to act quickly to protect consumers from unsafe or ineffective over-the-counter drugs. An FDA advisory panel recently recommended that over-the-counter (OTC) cough and cold medications for children under the age …
The New Yorker: Digitization and its discontents, by Anthony Grafton, November 5, 2007 “…the Internet will not bring us a universal library, much less an encyclopedic record of human experience. None of the firms now engaged in digitization projects claim that it will create anything of the kind. The hype and rhetoric make it hard …
Press release: “The Secretary of the Interior today released the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (FPEIS) for the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Alternative Energy and Alternate Use (AEAU) Program and announced an interim policy for authorization of the installation of offshore data collection and technology testing facilities in federal waters.” OCS Alternative Energy and Alternate …
“For the seventh year, FOREIGN POLICY partners with A.T. Kearney to measure countries on their economic, personal, technological, and political integration. Find out whos climbing the ranks, and whos sliding down.” The Globalization Index 2007 Download the Raw Index Data
“The Internet is becoming increasingly embedded in everyday life. Drawing on an expanding array of intelligent web services and applications, a growing number of people are creating, distributing and exploiting user-created content (UCC) and being part of the wider participative web. This study describes the rapid growth of UCC and its increasing role in worldwide …
Press release: “Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) offered White House Counsel Fred Fielding yet another opportunity to negotiate terms and agree on compliance with the committee’s subpoenas issued to Joshua Bolten, for documents, and Harriet Miers, for documents and testimony. The two were subpoenaed earlier this year as part of the …
The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change, Kurt M. Campbell, Jay Gulledge, J.R. McNeill, John Podesta, Peter Ogden, leon Fuerth, R. James Woolsey, Alexander T.J. lennon, Julianne Smith, Richard Weitz, and Derek Mix, November 2007 “Global climate change poses not only environmental hazards but profound risks to …
Border Security: Despite Progress, Weaknesses in Traveler Inspections Exist at Our Nation’s Ports of Entry, GAO-08-219, November 5, 2007 School Mental Health: Role of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and Factors Affecting Service Provision, GAO-08-19R, October 5, 2007 Securing U.S. Nuclear Material: DOE Has Made Little Progress Consolidating and Disposing of Special …
Audit of Security and Controls Over the National Driver Register, October 29, 2007, Project ID: FI-2008-003 (32 pages, PDF) “Summary: On October 29, we issued a final report on the audit of the National Driver Register (NDR) system administered by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). NDR is a central register that enables state …
