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Troubled Asset Relief Program: Additional Actions Needed to Better Ensure Integrity, Accountability, and Transparency, GAO-09-266T, December 10, 2008. “Treasury has taken a number of steps to try to stabilize the U.S. financial markets and banking system, including injecting billions of dollars into financial institutions. Although Treasury initially planned to buy mortgages and mortgage-related assets through …
News release: “The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) today outlined the key policies that President-elect Obama and the Congressional leadership must address to expand the use of solar energy and help put over 1 million Americans back to work by 2011. SEIA released Solar Energy: A Blueprint for Job Creation and Economic Security, which recommends …
Mr. Frank of Massachusetts introduced the following bill on December 10, 2008: Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act (1) to immediately provide authority and facilities to restore liquidity and stability to the domestic automobile industry in the United States; and (2) to ensure that such authority and such facilities are used in a manner that(A) …
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing on investments in clean energy and natural resources projects and programs to create green jobs and to stimulate the economy: Testimony of Bracken Hendricks, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Action Fund, December 10, 2008: “In this testimony, the Center for American Progress Action Fund offers some …
Via Taxpayers for Common Sense: “The Congressional Oversight Panel for Economic Stabilization has released its first report on the $700 billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Act.” Hensarling Testifies Before House Financial Services Committee – [here] is a copy of the testimony (as prepared for delivery) by Congressman Jeb Hensarling, Chairman of the Republican Study Committee and …
“The Center for American Progress Action Fund, along with New Democracy Project, presents Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President [Download 10 chapters free here], to help guide the presidential transition process and steer the government in a new, more progressive direction.”
The National Academies: “A new report from the National Research Council finds serious weaknesses in the government’s plan for research on the potential health and environmental risks posed by nanomaterials, which are increasingly being used in consumer goods and industry. An effective national plan for identifying and managing potential risks is essential to the successful …
“The mission of Let’s Say Thanks is to provide a way for individuals across the country to recognize U.S. troops stationed overseas. By submitting a message through this site you have the opportunity to send a free personalized postcard greeting to deployed servicemen and women. The postcards, depicting patriotic scenes and hometown images, were selected …
