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“Health care has been an important issue in this year’s presidential campaign and the candidates have staked out positions on key health care issues. Both major party candidates have developed comprehensive health care reform proposals addressing health coverage and access, rising health care costs and health care quality. A side-by-side comparison of these proposals has …
“Energy Policy of Presidential Candidates reviews key oil and gas tax policy differences of the presidential candidates. It focuses predominantly on the issues and political positions that are most relevant to the oil and gas industry from a tax perspective. Few industries have the impact on global economic livelihood, societal functioning and quality of life …
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation – Hearing on: Broadband Providers and Consumer Privacy, September 25, 2008 Testimony of Gigi B. Sohn, President, Public Knowledge: “Today’s hearing on consumer privacy comes in the wake of two high-profile online consumer privacy violations, both of which involved the use of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology on …
Federal Responses to Market Turmoil, September 24, 2008. Testimony before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives
News release: “In a sustained commitment to help solve the nations communications challenges currently faced by Americas first responders, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today adopted a Third Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Notice) that proposes licensing the 700 MHz D Block spectrum as part of a revised 700 MHz Public/Private partnership that will maximize …
Information Security: Actions Needed to Better Protect Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Unclassified Computer Network, GAO-08-1001, September 09, 2008 U.S. Asylum System: Agencies Have Taken Actions to Help Ensure Quality in the Asylum Adjudication Process, but Challenges Remain, GAO-08-935, September 25, 2008 Energy Markets: Analysis of More Past Mergers Could Enhance Federal Trade Commission’s Efforts to …
Congressional Budget Office: The Treatment of Federal Receipts and Expenditures in the National Income and Product Accounts, September 2008
News release: “Today, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued its draft of the eleventh annual Report to Congress on the Costs and Benefits of Federal Regulations. The Report features a look back at the last ten years of major Federal regulations reviewed by OMB to examine their quantified and monetized benefits and costs. …
Visa Waiver Program: Actions Are Needed to Improve Management of the Expansion Process, and to Assess and Mitigate Program Risks, GAO-08-1142T, September 24, 2008 Missile Defense: Actions Needed to Improve Planning and Cost Estimates for Long-Term Support of Ballistic Missile Defense, GAO-08-1068, September 25, 2008 Combating Nuclear Smuggling: DHS Needs to Consider the Full Costs …
News release: “Nevada Senator Harry Reid testified this week at a hearing before the Commerce Committee regarding the safety and security dangers associated with the proposal to ship 77,000 tons of nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain. Reid spoke about the Department of Energys unpreparedness to begin a massive nuclear waste shipping campaign.” Sen. Reid’s resource …
Legislative Text of FY 2009 Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009, September 24, 2008 [357 pages, PDF]
“The U.S. Sentencing Commission reports that from March 3 to August 26 of this year federal courts received 13,170 motions for sentence reductions by offenders convicted of crack cocaine crimes, and granted 9,703 of them.” Report. District by District Statistics.
