Day archives: June 13th, 2011

New GAO Reports: DOE's Depleted Uranium Tails, VA Health Care, Abusive Tax Avoidance Transactions, Private Pensions

Legislative Restrictions on Contractor Use of Mandatory Arbitration Agreements Have Had No Reported Impacts on National Security, GAO-11-717R, June 13, 2011 Nuclear Material: DOE’s Depleted Uranium Tails Could Be a Source of Revenue for the Government, GAO-11-752T, June 13, 2011 VA Health Care: Improvements Needed for Monitoring and Preventing Sexual Assaults and Other Safety Incidents, …

Subjects: Government Documents

Report – FBI Expands Surveillance Power of Agents

NYT: “The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or use surveillance teams to scrutinize the lives of people who have attracted their attention. The F.B.I. soon plans to issue a new edition of its manual, called …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Legal Research, Privacy

Stateline Legislative Review 2011

Legislative Review 2011 by John Gramlich, Stateline Staff Writer: “Holding a lock on the governorship and both houses of the legislature in 20 states, GOP conservatives advanced an agenda that may change the face of state government for decades. They honored pledges not to raise taxes by enacting huge spending cuts to balance budgets in …

Subjects: Government Documents, Legislation

FCC: The Information Needs of Communities

The Information Needs of Communities – The changing media landscape in a broadband age, Steven Waldman and the Working Group on Information Needs of Communities, June 2011 “In most ways todays media landscape is more vibrant than ever, offering faster and cheaper distribution networks, fewer barriers to entry, and more ways to consume information. Choice …

Subjects: Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

Bank of England Working Paper: Domestic financial regulation and external borrowing

Working Paper No 429 – Domestic financial regulation and external borrowing, Sergi Lanau “This paper studies the relationship between domestic financial regulation and the incentive of non-banks to borrow from banks abroad using BIS banking data in a gravity framework. Conditional on a large set of macroeconomic controls, we find that under tighter domestic financial …

Subjects: Government Documents

NY AG Sues Feds For Failure to Study Fracking

News release: [On May 31, 2011] New York “Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced he was filing a lawsuit against the federal government for its failure to commit to a full environmental review of proposed regulations that would allow natural gas drilling including the potentially harmful fracking technique in the Delaware River Basin. …

Subjects: Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

House Appropriations Committee Report – Full Committee Print of the Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal 2012

House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, FY 2012 Defense Bill – Report “The Presidents fiscal year 2012 budget request for activities funded in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act totals $538,940,292,000 in new budget obligational authority for the base military bill…The Committee recommendation for the fiscal year 2012 Department of Defense base budget is $530,024,959,000, …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents

SEC Guide – Implementing the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

Implementing the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: “This law creates a new, more effective regulatory structure, fills a host of regulatory gaps, brings greater public transparency and market accountability to the financial system and gives investors important protections and greater input into corporate governance.” SEC Chairman Mary L. Schapiro

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

McKinsey Global Institute Report: An economy that works: Job creation and Americas future

An economy that works: Job creation and America’s future, June 2011 “For the United States to return to full employmentfinding work for the currently unemployed and accommodating new entrants into the labor force this decadethe US economy will need to create 21 million jobs by 2020, according to MGI’s analysis. To understand how this might …

Subjects: Government Documents

GPO Releases Congressional Pictorial Directory: 112th Congress

“The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has made available the Congressional Pictorial Directory: 112th Congress on GPOs Federal Digital System (FDsys), a one-stop site to authentic, published Government information. GPO employees designed and created the Pictorial Directory, which features a color photograph of each Member of the House of Representatives and the Senate and details …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents

Federal Reserve – Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States

Z.1 Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States – Flows and Outstandings, First Quarter 2011, June 9, 2011: “Debt of the domestic nonfinancial sectors expanded at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 2¼ percent in the first quarter of 2011, about two percentage points less than the pace registered in 2010. Household debt declined …

Subjects: Government Documents

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