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Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans: Summary Update for Fiscal Year 2008, December 2007: “The 2008 FYDP [Future Year’s Defense Program ]reflects changes to the departments programs and priorities between February 2006 and February 2007. The 2008 FYDP and CBOs projections of its long-term implications both exclude potential future supplemental or emergency appropriations, although the …
“Have you ever wanted to find more information on government spending? Have you ever wondered where federal contracting dollars and grant awards go? Or perhaps you would just like to know, as a citizen, what the government is really doing with your money. The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Transparency Act) requires …
DLA Piper press release: “Senator George J. Mitchell, the chairman of DLA Piper, today released the report of his independent investigation into the illegal use of steroids and other performance enhancing substances by players in Major League Baseball. Senator Mitchell was named in March 2006 by the Commissioner of Baseball, Allan H. Selig, to conduct …
Nuclear Power in a Warming World – Findings and Recommendations in Brief: “Global warming demands a profound transformation in the ways we generate and consume energy. Because nuclear power results in few global warming emissions, an increase in nuclear power could help reduce global warmingbut it could also increase the threats to human safety and …
Electric Power Monthly (12/13/2007): “The latest EPM issue (December 2007) is now available on EIA’s Electricity page. Data being published in the December 2007 EPM include September 2007 data. Historical copies of the EPM tables in Excel format have also been posted on the EIA website, dating back to the May 2003 publication of the …
Press release: “Violent and property crime rates in United States urban and suburban communities remained stable between 2005 and 2006, the Justice Departments Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. Last year BJS introduced a new sample of households and adopted automated data collection procedures that limited comparisons to urban and suburban areas.” The report, …
Fact Sheet: Select Department of Homeland Security 2007 Achievements, December 12, 2007: Protecting the Nation from Dangerous People
Press release: “Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has been named 2007s Lawyer of the Year by the ABA Journal, the flagship publication of the American Bar Association.” The top legal story of 2007 was unquestionably the unraveling of support for the Bush administrations expansive view of presidential power during wartime, and with it, the …
Historical Effective Federal Tax Rates: 1979 to 2005, December 2007 and Supplemental Tables
Homeland Security Strategic Planning: Mission Area Analysis, March 28, 2007 Underlying Reasons for Success and Failure of Terrorist Attacks: Selected Case Studies, June 4, 2007 2007 Homeland Security Science and Technology Stakeholders Conference, held May 2124, 2007 -Available presentations
Government Technology: “A new white paper designed to help public officials develop policies for removing Social Security numbers and other sensitive information from public documents is now available online. The National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), in collaboration with the National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council (eC3), today released a joint white paper on redaction …
“For the past 16 months, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has been investigating allegations of political interference with government climate change science under the Bush Administration. During the course of this investigation, the Committee obtained over 27,000 pages of documents from the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the Commerce Department, …
