Monthly archives: November, 2007

New CRS Reports: Medicaid Citizenship Documentation, Retirement Savings Accounts, Electronic Rulemaking in the Federal Government

October 17, 2007 – Medicaid Citizenship Documentation October 17, 2007 – Cost-of-Living Adjustments for Federal Civil Service Annuities October 17, 2007 – Retirement Savings Accounts: Fees, Expenses, and Account Balances October 16, 2007 – Electronic Rulemaking in the Federal Government October 15, 2007 – Crop Insurance and Disaster Assistance: 2007 Farm Bill Issues October 15, …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

DHS Publishes Chemicals of Interest List for Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards

Fact Sheet: Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards: Appendix A “The Department of Homeland Security today released Appendix A of the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS), a critical element of its chemical security efforts. The appendix contains a list of chemicals that, if possessed by a facility in a specified quantity, trigger a requirement to complete and …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Web Source Aggregates Links for Finding Canadian Statistics

Finding Canadian Statistics, sponsored by JournalismNet.com, includes the following topical categories: state sponsored news on country, Provincial and territorial statistics; profiles of cities, districts; census data; economic data.

Subjects: Legal Research

Report to Congress on FY 2007 Competitive Sourcing Efforts

M-08-02, Report to Congress on FY 2007 Competitive Sourcing Efforts (October 31, 2007) (14 pages, PDF).

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

CRS Report – National Strategy for Combating Terrorism: Background and Issues for Congress

Via FAS, National Strategy for Combating Terrorism: Background and Issues for Congress, November 1, 2007 (19 pages, PDF): “Inherent in the National Strategy are a number of issues for Congress. These include (1) democratization as a counterterrorism strategy; (2) the validity of the Strategys assumptions about terrorists; (3) whether the Strategy adequately addresses the situation …

Subjects: Government Documents

Article Details Text Mining Services for the UK Academic Community

The National Centre for Text Mining: A Vision for the Future: “Sophia Ananiadou describes NaCTeM and the main scientific challenges it helps to solve together with issues related to deployment, use and uptake of NaCTeM’s text mining tools and services.” “One of the defining challenges of e-Science is dealing with the data deluge information overload …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

New GAO Reports

Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes, GAO-08-203R, November 2, 2007 Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes, GAO-08-202R, November 2, 2007 District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program: Additional Policies and Procedures Would Improve Internal Controls and Program Operations, GAO-08-9, November 1, 2007 State Department: Transparent Cost Estimates Needed to Support …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Quarterly Report to Congress

October 30, 2007 Quarterly Report to Congress: “Two notable developments provide a backdrop for SIGIRs work this quarter. First, total relief and reconstruction investment for Iraq from all sourcesthe United States, Iraq, and international donorspassed the $100 billion mark. And second, total attacks on Coalition forces and Iraqis dropped to their lowest levels in over …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents

EIA: Supplement to Energy Market and Economic Impacts of S. 280

Supplement to: Energy Market and Economic Impacts of S. 280, the Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act of 2007 (11/01/2007) “This paper responds to a September 18, 2007, letter from Senators Barrasso, Inhofe, and Voinovich, seeking further energy and economic analysis to supplement information presented in the Energy Information Administrations (EIA) recent analysis of S. 280, …

Subjects: Congress, E-Commerce, E-Government, Government Documents, Legislation

CBO Report on Long Term Unemployment

Long-Term Unemployment, October 2007 (34 pages, PDF), Prepared at the Request of the House Budget and Ways and Means Committee. “Even in a strong labor market, many people become unemployed for short periods as they enter the labor force or change jobs. But some people take many months to find a job. Over the past …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

2007 Survey of American Attitudes Towards Jews in America

Press release: “A nationwide survey released [November 1, 2007] by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) shows the number of Americans who hold anti-Semitic attitudes remains constant from its 2005 findings, demonstrating once again that “anti-Semitic beliefs endure in America.” The 2007 Survey of American Attitudes Towards Jews in America, a national telephone survey of 2,000 American …

Subjects: Internet

New, Interactive E-Gov SiteTracks Drought

“The government today unveiled a new Web site for the public and civic managers to monitor U.S. drought conditions, get forecasts, and know how drought impacts their communities or what mitigation measures exist. Called the U.S. Drought Portal, the www.drought.govs ite was developed for the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS). A seemingly slow and …

Subjects: E-Government

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