Author archives

Remarks on Implementation of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act

Interim Assistant Secretary Neel Kashkari, November 19, 2008: “…The EESA is not an economic stimulus plan, nor is it an economic growth plan. It was designed to stabilize the financial system. Today, the LIBOR-OIS spread has fallen 238 basis points from its peak to 100 basis points. We believe the combined actions of Treasury, the …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Legislation

Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers and Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, South Region

News release: “The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for the South1 declined 1.2 percent in October to 210.108 (1982-84=100), the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Sheila Watkins, the Bureau’s regional commissioner, noted that this was the largest one-month decline since monthly reporting began in January …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

New GAO Reports: DHS Acquisitions, State and Local Fiscal Challenges, Nuclear Safety

Department of Homeland Security: A Strategic Approach Is Needed to Better Ensure the Acquisition Workforce Can Meet Mission Needs, GAO-09-30, November 19, 2008 Mandate on the Department of Defense’s Contract Award Procedures for Directed Spending Items, GAO-09-113R, November 19, 2008 State and Local Fiscal Challenges: Rising Health Care Costs Drive Long-term and Immediate Pressures, GAO-09-210T, …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

FTC Announces Health Care Booklet and Web Site for Seniors

New release: “To help provide reliable sources of health information to seniors and their family members, caregivers, and friends, the Federal Trade Commission has developed a new booklet and Web site. Who Cares: Sources of Information About Health Care Products and Services, online, urges older consumers to discuss their health-related decisions with doctors and other …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

BLM Finalizes Rules That Could Add Billions of Barrels of Oil to U.S. Supply

News release: “As part of its ongoing effort to increase and diversify America’s energy supply, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management today published final regulations to establish a commercial oil shale program that could result in the addition of up to 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil from lands in the Western …

Subjects: Government Documents

NOAA Declares October Second Warmest for Global Temperatures

News release: “The combined global land and ocean surface average temperature for October 2008 was the second warmest since records began in 1880, according to a preliminary analysis by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center. NOAA understands and predicts changes in the Earth’s environment, from the depths of the ocean …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Fact Sheet: Expanding International Market Opportunities for Americans

News release: U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez spoke about the importance of trade—and its role in ensuring our nation’s future prosperity at a Small Business Administration (SBA) trade symposium. “Exports were $1 trillion in 2001. At present rates, America’s exports will be approaching $2 trillion this year… and exports account for essentially all the …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

EPA Action Plan: Looking Toward a More Cost Effective, Energy Efficient Future

News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Energy are helping states lead the way in an effort to promote low cost energy efficiency. More than 60 energy, environmental and state policy leaders from across the country have come together to produce the updated National Action Plan Vision for 2025: A Framework …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

DOJ Issues New Guidances on FOIA Requests, Fees, Response Time

OIP Guidance: New Requirement To Route Misdirected FOIA Requests (posted 11/18/2008) OIP Guidance: New Limitations on Assessing Fees (posted 11/18/2008) OIP Guidance: New Limitations on Tolling the FOIA’s Response Time (posted 11/18/2008) OIP Guidance: Assigning Tracking Numbers and Providing Status Information for Requests (posted 11/18/2008

Subjects: E-Government, Freedom of Information, Government Documents

NASA Successfully Tests First Deep Space Internet

News release: “Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about 20 million miles from Earth. “This is the first step in creating a totally new …

Subjects: Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management