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“EPA’s new Greenhouse Gas Calculator helps you turn greenhouse gas savings into more easily understood everyday terms. The calculator converts greenhouse gas-related savings estimates, typically presented in “million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents,” into familiar terms such as the greenhouse gas emissions that would result from: Driving a particular number of cars for a …
Press release: “Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) today called for the papers of the Founding Fathers Project [Pew Charitable Trusts: “The Project was established more than a half century ago to publish the complete, annotated writings of the countrys founding fathersincluding George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin …
Corporate Integrity Agreement Between the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General and Merck & Co. Inc., February 7, 2008. “Merck & Company has agreed to pay more than $650 million to resolve allegations that the pharmaceutical manufacturer failed to pay proper rebates to Medicaid and other government health care programs and …
The Department of Defense’s Civilian Human Capital Strategic Plan Does Not Meet Most Statutory Requirements, GAO-08-439R, February 6, 2008 Department of Homeland Security: Status and Accountability Challenges Associated with the Use of Special DHS Acquisition Authority, GAO-08-471T, February 7, 2008 Federal Aviation Administration: Challenges Facing the Agency in Fiscal Year 2009 and Beyond, GAO-08-460T, February …
CDT: “The Senate yesterday gave final congressional approval to legislation making “Do Not Call” listings permanent. Without the legislation, consumers’ phone numbers would have been automatically removed from the FTC controlled list after five years. CDT applauds the decision to eliminate the list’s current expiration policy, which would require consumers who want to remain on …
Monthly Budget Review, February 2008: “The federal government incurred a deficit of $90 billion in the first four months of fiscal year 2008, CBO estimates, about $48 billion more than the shortfall in the same period last year. Shifts in the timing of certain payments and receipts account for about one-third of that increase in …
Press release: “Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who also sits on the panel, sent a letter Thursday urging Attorney General Michael Mukasey to clarify testimony given to the Committee during last weeks Department of Justice oversight hearing. In the letter, they ask the Attorney General to explain the …
All prior editions (1949-2006) and revisions of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) are now available in PDF on the MPEP webpage.
Annual Threat Assessment of the Intelligence Community for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, 7 February 2008, J. Michael McConnell, Director of National Intelligence (46 pages, PDF)
Press release: “More than 15 years after Congress required the federal government to set up a national database to allow car buyers to determine whether a vehicle has been stolen or rebuilt after a wreck, the system is still not in place, three consumers groups said Wednesday in a lawsuit filed against the Department of …
Central Intelligence Agency Freedom Of Information Act Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2007, Unclassified. “For those FOIA cases closed in FY 2007, 80% were closed in 175 days; median response time was 40 days; average response time was 223 days. For those Privacy Act cases closed in FY 2007, 80% were closed in 58 days; …
Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization, A White Paper by Oya Y. Rieger, February, 2008. 52 pp. Published by the Council on Library and Information Resources. Executive Summary: “The digitization of millions of books under programs such as Google Book Search and Microsoft Live Search Books is dramatically expanding our ability to search and …
