Day archives: December 12th, 2012

Presidential Appointee Positions Requiring Senate Confirmation and Committees Handling Nominations

CRS – Presidential Appointee Positions Requiring Senate Confirmation and Committees Handling Nominations, November 15, 2012 “This report identifies, by Senate committee, presidentially appointed positions requiring Senate confirmation based on referrals as of the date of passage of S. 679, which became P.L. 112-166 on August 10, 2012. This public law removed numerous presidentially appointed positions …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legislation

Pew – Social Networking Popular Across Globe

“Social networking has spread around the world with remarkable speed. In countries such as Britain, the United States, Russia, the Czech Republic and Spain, about half of all adults now use Facebook and similar websites. These sites are also popular in many lower-income nations, where, once people have access to the internet, they tend to …

Subjects: Blogs, Internet

CRS: Presidential Reorganization Authority

Presidential Reorganization Authority: History, Recent Initiatives, and Options for Congress, December 11, 2012: “On January 13, 2012, President Barack Obama announced that he would ask Congress to reinstate so-called presidential reorganization authority, and his Administration conveyed a legislative proposal that would renew this authority to Congress on February 16, 2012. Bills based on the proposed …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legislation

New GAO Reports – Mineral Resources, DOD Financial Management, Higher Education, Federal Contracting, DISH Network, International Food Assistance

Mineral Resources – Mineral Volume, Value, and Revenue, GAO-13-45R, Nov 15, 2012 DOD Financial Management – Actions Needed to Address Deficiencies in Controls over Army Active Duty Military Payroll, GAO-13-28, Dec 12, 2012 Higher Education – A Small Percentage of Families Save in 529 Plans, GAO-13-64, Dec 12, 2012 Federal Contracting – Slow Start to …

Subjects: Government Documents

Commentary – The life span of email

Curt Hopkins for The Daily Dot: “When a user deletes an email in the normal fashion, it becomes invisible to that user and is immediately a candidate to be overwritten. But until it is in fact overwritten, it exists. And it may persist longer on company servers. So, even if it is taken off your …

Subjects: E-Mail, Knowledge Management, Privacy

Travel expenditures, 20052011: spending slows during recent recession

“Expenditures on travel for pleasure declined sharply in response to the recent recession, and had not yet fully recovered by 2011. In 2008, the first full year of the recent recession, consumers reported expenditures that were almost 3.5 percent lower than those reported in 2007. Reported expenditures declined another 9.8 percent in 2009, the year …

Subjects: Government Documents

Highway deaths fell to lowest level in more than six decades, down 26 percent since 2005

News release: “The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) today released a new analysis indicating that highway deaths fell to 32,367 in 2011, marking the lowest level since 1949 and a 1.9 percent decrease from the previous year. The updated 2011 data announced today show the historic downward trend in recent …

Subjects: Government Documents

Health Plan Provisions in Private Industry in the United States, 2011

National Compensation Survey: Health Plan Provisions in Private Industry in the United States, 2011, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, December 2012 “The National Compensation Survey (NCS) provides comprehensive measures of compensation cost trends, the incidence of benefits, and detailed benefit provisions. This bulletin presents estimates of the detailed provisions of employer-provided health plans in private …

Subjects: Government Documents

U.S. DOT Proposes Broader Use of Event Data Recorders to Help Improve Vehicle Safety

News release and Federal Register Notice: “In August 2006, NHTSA established a regulation that sets forth requirements for data elements, data capture and format, data retrieval, and data crash survivability for event data recorders (EDRs) installed in light vehicles. The requirements apply to light vehicles that are manufactured on or after September 1, 2012, and …

Subjects: Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy

Jackie Dooley's "Digital Archives and Society" Presentation

“In this presentation, Jackie discusses how things like national security, international activism and crowdsourcing impact the work of archivists. OCLC Research Program Officer and President of the Society of American Archivists Jackie Dooley gave this presentation at the Archival Leaders Advocate Annual Seminar on 13 November 2013 at the Center for Jewish History in New …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Right to Work Laws: Legislative Background and Empirical Research

CRS – Right to Work Laws: Legislative Background and Empirical Research, Benjamin Collins, Analyst in Labor Policy. December 6, 2012 “The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) establishes most private-sector workers rights to unionize and collectively bargain over wages, benefits, and working conditions. Enacted in 1935, the NLRA also permits collective bargaining contracts between employers and …

Subjects: Legal Research, Legislation

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