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Department of State Resource Guide: Polling Places, Candidate Info, Electoral College

List of Polling Places in the Washington Metropolitan Area Voting States’ Polls Closing Times and Networks Projections CANDIDATES – John McCain | Barack Obama eJournal – “The Candidates” Individual States and Background Information ELECTORAL COLLEGE | Background Information | eJournal – “The Electoral College” CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS | Background Information

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Workers' Retirement Security

Testimony for the House Education and Labor Committee – The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Workers’ Retirement Security, October 7, 2008. Additional Statement for the Record, Jack VanDerhei, Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) “Background — The ability of future cohorts of retirees to have broadly defined levels of retirement security has been the focus …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents

Information Technology Risks and Controls and Fair Credit Reporting Act

OTS 08-051 – OTS Issues New Examination Procedures on Identity Theft Red Flags and Address Discrepancies: “This Regulatory Bulletin transmits revised Examination Handbook Section 341, Information Technology Risks and Controls, and revised Examination Handbook Section 1300, Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The revised Handbook Sections contain new guid-ance and examination procedures for the final rules …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, ID Theft, Legislation

Monitor Election Problems Nationwide with OurVoteLive.org

Search by State or County for Real-Time Voter Reports on Election Day – Reporters, bloggers, and voters across the country can monitor problems at the polls on Election Day on OurVoteLive.org, a project built and hosted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on behalf of Election Protection, the nation’s largest nonpartisan voter protection coalition, and …

Subjects: E-Government

Recent SIGR Reports: Iraq Reconstruction Project Terminations, -Building Strategy for Iraq, Data on Iraqi Security Forces

Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction 09-004 Iraq Reconstruction Project Terminations Represent a Range of Actions, October 27, 2008: “As of June 2008, SIGIR identified 1,262 DoD Iraq reconstruction projects that have been terminated, including 732 for the convenience of the government, and 530 for default on the part of the contractor. These terminated projects …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

FBI Releases 2007 Hate Crime Statistics

News release: “Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released statistics which indicated that 7,624 criminal incidents involving 9,006 offenses were reported in 2007 as a result of bias toward a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin, or physical or mental disability. Hate Crime Statistics, 2007, published by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, includes …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, Government Documents

Unintended Consequences: Ten Years Under the DMCA

Electronic Frontier Foundation: “This document, Unintended Consequences: Ten Years under the DMCA, collects reported cases where the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA have been invoked not against pirates, but against consumers, scientists, and legitimate competitors. It will be updated from time to time as additional cases come to light. The latest version can always be …

Subjects: Copyright, Legal Research

DOI Draft Regulations: Implementing Interagency Cooperation Under the Endangered Species Act

News release: “The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service today announced the availability of the Draft Environmental Assessment that analyzes a limited set of proposed revisions to regulations that apply to interagency consultation procedures under section 7 of the Endangered Species Act. The Services are seeking public review and comment …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

New GAO Reports: Export Controls, Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Initiative

Export Controls: Challenges with Commerce’s Validated End-User Program May Limit Its Ability to Ensure That Semiconductor Equipment Exported to China Is Used as Intended, GAO-08-1095, September 25, 2008 Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Initiative: Further Progress Is Needed in Developing a Risk-Based Monitoring Approach to Help HHS Improve Program Oversight, GAO-08-1002, September 26, 2008

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

New Interagency Website: EconomicRecovery.gov

“U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez took questions from the public concerning the current U.S. economy and announced a new interagency Web site led by the Commerce Department in an Interactive online forum, “Ask the White House.” The new web site, EconomicRecovery.gov, is a resource for the latest information from government agencies on America’s …

Subjects: E-Government

Report: Depressed Economy Wallops States

Depressed economy wallops states, By Pamela M. Prah, Stateline.org Staff Writer “Staggered by turbulent financial markets and anxious about a rapidly slumping economy, many state governments are slashing their budgets, frantically trying to stay afloat. After two years free of major fiscal worries, state policymakers in 2008 were hit by a triple-whammy: a Wall Street …

Subjects: Government Documents