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“The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing titled, Hedge Funds and the Financial Market, on November 13, 2008. The hearing examined systemic risks to the financial markets posed by hedge funds and proposals for regulatory and tax reforms.” Opening Statement of Rep. Henry A. Waxman: “The five witnesses we will hear …
Federal Land Management: Use of Stewardship Contracting Is Increasing, but Agencies Could Benefit from Better Data and Contracting Strategies, GAO-09-23, November 13, 2008 Public Health and Border Security: HHS and DHS Should Further Strengthen Their Ability to Respond to TB Incidents, GAO-09-58, October 14, 2008
News release: “An update of the widely-cited manufacturing cost study released today by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), The Manufacturing Institute and the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI shows that U.S. manufacturing is making progress in reducing its cost disadvantage against nine major foreign competitors but that high corporate tax rates now account for more than half …
News release: “Cities from Beijing to New Delhi are getting darker, glaciers in ranges like the Himalayas are melting faster and weather systems becoming more extreme, in part, due to the combined effects of man-made Atmospheric Brown Clouds (ABCs) and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. These are among the conclusions of scientists studying a more …
“TSCATS is an online database of unpublished, non-confidential studies covering chemical testing results and adverse effects of chemicals on health and ecological systems. TSCATS were developed to make ongoing and completed chemical testing studies available to the public. The collection currently exceeds 25,000 titles of studies that are submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency …
G20 Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy – November 15, 2008 – U.S. Government Statements, Briefings and Fact Sheets Related postings on financial system
News release: “The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has issued an Interagency Statement on Meeting the Needs of Creditworthy Borrowers to all FDIC supervised institutions. The statement encourages financial institutions to support the lending needs of creditworthy borrowers, strengthen capital, engage in loss-mitigation strategies and foreclosure-prevention strategies with mortgage borrowers, and assess the incentive implications of …
News release: “The Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board today announced the release of a joint final rule to implement the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. The Act prohibits gambling businesses from knowingly accepting payments in connection with unlawful Internet gambling, including payments made through credit cards, electronic funds transfers, …
News release: Current State of Global Financial System – “The actions taken by Treasury, the Federal Reserve and the FDIC in October have clearly helped stabilize our financial system. Before we acted, we were at a tipping point. Credit markets were largely frozen, denying financial institutions, businesses and consumers access to vital funding and credit. …
Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus: “It is the duty of the next President and the next Congress to reform Americas health care system. In 2009, Congress must take up and act on meaningful health reform legislation that achieves universal coverage while also addressing the underlying problems in our health system. The urgency of this task …
Financial Audit: IRS’s Fiscal Years 2008 and 2007 Financial Statements, GAO-09-119, November 10, 2008
“The United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions (Plum Book) (210 pages) has been made available in its entirety, as a single PDF file. GPO has refined the 2008 Plum Book by adding bookmarks to it and optimizing it for the web. In addition, the entire report is also available in TEXT format.”
