Monthly archives: December, 2012

Campaign Finance Disclosure Portal

“The Federal Election Commission’s Campaign Finance Disclosure Portal provides a single point of entry to campaign finance data. You’ll find easy-to-navigate maps and charts that display the campaign finance data you’re most interested in. You’ll also find many search tools that will help you through our data sources. You can download many of these data …

Subjects: E-Government

Dodd-Frank Progress Report Generated using the Davis Polk Regulatory Tracker™ December 2012

Davis Polk – “As of December 3, 2012, a total of 237 Dodd-Frank rulemaking requirement deadlines have passed. This is 59.5% of the 398 total rulemaking requirements, and 84.6% of the 280 rulemaking requirements with specified deadlines. Of these 237 passed deadlines, 144 (61%) have been missed and 93 (39%) have been met with finalized …

Subjects: Government Documents, Legislation

Bloomberg – Google Using Bermuda as $10B Tax Shelter

Bloomberg: “Google Inc. avoided about $2 billion in worldwide income taxes in 2011 by shifting $9.8 billion in revenues into a Bermuda shell company, almost double the total from three years before, filings show. By legally funneling profits from overseas subsidiaries into Bermuda, which doesn’t have a corporate income tax, Google cut its overall tax …

Subjects: Government Documents, Search Engines

FTC's Latest Kids’ App Report Finds Little Progress in Addressing Privacy Concerns

News release: “The Federal Trade Commission issued a new staff report, Mobile Apps for Kids: Disclosures report Still Not Making the Grade, examining the privacy disclosures and practices of apps offered for children in the Google Play and Apple App stores. The report details the results of the FTC’s second survey of kids’ mobile apps…Staff …

Subjects: Government Documents, Privacy

New GAO Reports – Medicaid Integrity Program, End-Stage Renal Disease

Medicaid Integrity Program – CMS Should Take Steps to Eliminate Duplication and Improve Efficiency, GAO-13-50, Nov 13, 2012 Medicare Program Integrity – Greater Prepayment Control Efforts Could Increase Savings and Better Ensure Proper Payment, GAO-13-102, Nov 13, 2012 End-Stage Renal Disease – Reduction in Drug Utilization Suggests Bundled Payment Is Too High, GAO-13-190R, Dec 7, …

Subjects: Government Documents

2010 Census Report Shows More Than 80 Percent of Centenarians are Women

Centenarians: 2010 – Issued December 2012. C2010SR-03. 2010 Census Special Reports “Centenarians, or people aged 100 or older, are both rare and distinct from the rest of the older population. This report provides an updated portrait of the centenarian population based on age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, and living arrangements information collected during the 2010 …

Subjects: Government Documents

What to Expect in the Second Term

What to Expect in the Second Term: Presidential Travel and the Rise of Legacy Building, 1957-2009. Emily Charnock, James A. McCann and Kathryn Dunn Tenpas “If President Obama follows in the footsteps of his predecessors, he will spend less time in swing states and more time abroad. To date, little attention has been dedicated to …

Subjects: Government Documents

CRS – Next Steps in the War in Afghanistan? Issues for Congress

In Brief: Next Steps in the War in Afghanistan? Issues for Congress, Catherine Dale, Specialist in International Security. December 6, 2012 “While some basic parameters of U.S. Afghanistan policy appear to be set, particularly in the wake of the U.S. presidential elections, many issues concerning the extent of any further U.S. commitment and the forms …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents

EPO and SIPO launch Chinese-English machine translation for patents

News release: “Breaking new ground in providing access to the most comprehensive technological information, the European Patent Office (EPO) and the State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China (SIPO) today launched the Chinese-English component of the EPO’s free automatic translation service Patent Translate. As a result, the collections of the two largest …

Subjects: Legal Research, Patent and Trademark