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Drug Safety: Preliminary Findings Suggest Recent FDA Initiatives Have Potential, but Do Not Fully Address Weaknesses in Its Foreign Drug Inspection Program, GAO-08-701T, April 22, 2008. “Recent FDA initiatives – some of which have been implemented and others proposed – could strengthen FDA’s foreign drug inspection program, but these initiatives do not fully address the …
News release: “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today a notice of proposed rulemaking that will establish biometric exit procedures at all U.S air and sea ports of departure. The majority of non-U.S. citizens are already required to submit digital fingerprints and a digital photograph for admission into the country. The US-VISIT Exit …
H.R. 5613, Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act of 2008, April 22, 2008: “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on April 16, 2008.” “H.R. 5613 would extend existing moratoria on certain regulatory actions taken by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) with regard …
News release: “Fuel efficiency standards for both passenger vehicles and light trucks would increase by 4.5 percent per year over the five-year period ending in 2015 a 25 percent total improvement that exceeds the 3.3 percent baseline proposed by Congress last year under an ambitious new proposal announced today by U.S. Transportation Secretary …
Written Statement of Kevin J. Martin, Chairman Federal Communications Commission Before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation hearing, Future of the Internet, April 22, 2008. “Thank you for inviting me here today to provide my thoughts on the future of the Internet and the Commission’s current role on some of the …
News release: “The World Food Programme (WFP) has said that high food prices are creating the biggest challenge that WFP has faced in its 45-year history, a silent tsunami threatening to plunge more than 100 million people on every continent into hunger.” WPF: Soaring food prices are affecting millions of people across the world – …
Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR): Progress on Recommended Improvements to Contract Administration for the Iraqi Police Training Program, April 22, 2008.
News release: “Short-term exposure to current levels of ozone in many areas is likely to contribute to premature deaths, says a new National Research Council report, which adds that the evidence is strong enough that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should include ozone-related mortality in health-benefit analyses related to future ozone standards. The committee that …
News release: Updating the Council on the humanitarian situation in Darfur, John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, said “I am saddened and angry that, after five years of suffering, and four years since this Council became actively engaged, we have still not been able to find a lasting solution to the …
DOT news release: “Railroads will be required to route every train carrying the most toxic and dangerous hazardous materials on the safest and most secure route under a new federal rule announced today by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters…beginning June 1, the rule requires railroads to conduct a comprehensive safety and security risk …
