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After Midnight – The Bush legacy of deregulation and what Obama can do, Reece Rushing, Rick Melberth, and Matt Madia, January 2009. “The Bush administration rushed out a host of problematic regulations in its final months. Many of these midnight regulations actually represent deregulatory actions that weaken or eliminate safeguards protecting health, safety, the environment, …
Troubled Asset Relief Program: Status of Efforts to Address Transparency and Accountability Issues, GAO-09-296, January 30, 2009. “As of January 23, 2009, Treasury had disbursed about $293.7 billion of the $700 billion in program funds. Most of the funds (about $194.2 billion) went to purchase preferred shares of 317 financial institutions under the Capital Purchase …
Politico 44, dubbed “a living diary of the Obama Presidency,” provides readers with an aggregated melange of government documents, issue oriented media coverage in print and video, and well, gossip.
National Gang Threat Assessment 2009 “This intelligence assessment is a collaborative effort between the National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC) and the NDIC to examine the threat posed to the United States by criminal gangs; it supports U.S. Department of Justice strategic objectives 2.2 (to reduce the threat, incidence, and prevalence of violent crime) and 2.4 …
Military Base Realignments and Closures: DOD Faces Challenges in Implementing Recommendations on Time and Is Not Consistently Updating Savings Estimates, GAO-09-217, January 30, 2009 Information Security: Further Actions Needed to Address Risks to Bank Secrecy Act Data, GAO-09-195, January 30, 2009 Meal Counting and Claiming by Food Service Management Companies in the School Meal Programs, …
5 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year: “Data visualization continues to grow online and in the real world. It exists as masterful art pieces and amazingly useful analysis tools. In both cases though it brings data — which is oftentimes cryptic — to the masses and shows that data is more than a bucket …
News release: “The U.S. Department of Justice announced the availability of an on-line computer system to help protect states and consumers from automobile fraud and to provide law enforcement with new tools to investigate fraud, theft, and other crimes involving vehicles. The National Motor Vehicle Title Information System, or NMVTIS, will be available for consumers …
