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Monthly Budget Review, August 2008. Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for June and the Daily Treasury Statements for July. “The federal budget deficit was about $371 billion for the first 10 months of fiscal year 2008, CBO estimates, $213 billion more than the shortfall recorded over the same period in 2007. Revenues were about …
Brookings – The New Orleans Index Anniversary Edition: Three Years after Katrina – “Greater New Orleans approaches the end of its third year of recovery from a position of strength, with the vast majority of its pre-storm population and jobs. But many recovery trends have slowed or stagnated in the past year as tens of …
AP – US: Ivins solely responsible for anthrax attacks Press release: “As the Department indicated last week and has been widely reported, substantial progress has been made in the Amerithrax investigation in recent years. As you know, this investigation into the worst act of bioterrorism in U.S. history has been one of the largest and …
D-2008-115 Status of Training Vehicles for U.S. Ground Forces Deploying in Support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, August 6, 2008 (Project No. D2007-D000LH-0108.001) “Our overall audit objective was to determine whether U.S. ground forces supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) were receiving the training necessary to meet operational requirements. Specifically for this project, we determined whether levels …
Department of Energy IG Audit Report – Management Controls over Changes to the Idaho Cleanup Project Contract Baseline, July 2008 “In Fiscal Year 2005, the Department of Energy (Department) awarded a Cost-Plus-Incentive-Fee coiltract to CH2M + WG Idaho, LLC (CWI) to lead environmental cleanup of its Idaho National Laboratory site. CWI’s contract requires it to …
Department of Energy IG Audit Report: Sandia National Laboratories Nuclear Weapons Safety Program (U) – an unclassified summary of the classified Audit Report on “Sandia National Laboratories Nuclear Weapons Safety Program (DOE/IG-0799, July 31, 2008) “Nuclear weapons safety is of paramount importance to U.S. security. The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) requires …
Consumer Federation of America, Fuel Economy and Auto Sales: Automaker and the National Highway Trafffic Safety Administration Ignore Market Signals, August 2008, by Mark Cooper: “This analysis explores important and fundamental flaws in the underlying economic assumptions made by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in proposing its 2011-2015 fuel economy standards for autos …
News release: “In response to Chairman Waxmans inquiry, EPA provided analyses EPA had conducted of reductions that would be necessary from the transportation sector to meet a range of global warming goals.” The Potential Energy and GHG Implications of Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles: A Scenario Analysis, 2008 – SAE Government/Industry Meeting, U.S. EPA, May 14, 2008 …
News release: “Before Congress spends billions to build public schools that meet “green” environmental standards, it should review Washington state’s experience, which shows that green buildings have higher than expected costs, and the energy savings and other projected benefits are either small or nonexistent, says Todd Myers, director of the Center for the Environment at …
News release: “Eleven perpetrators allegedly involved in the hacking of nine major U.S. retailers and the theft and sale of more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers have been charged with numerous crimes, including conspiracy, computer intrusion, fraud and identity theft, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts …
Stabilizing and Rebuilding Iraq: Iraqi Revenues, Expenditures, and Surplus, GAO-08-1031, August 05, 2008 “Iraq has an estimated 115 billion barrels of crude oil reserves, the third largest in the world. Oil export revenues are critical to Iraq’s reconstruction, accounting for over 90 percent of the Iraqi government’s revenues. In June 2008, GAO reported low 2007 …
Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) – Information on a Special Department of Defense Program to Foster Economic Recovery in Iraq, July 29, 2008 “Relief and Reconstruction Fund; therefore, SIGIR focused heavily on audits of Iraq reconstruction projects. But in recent years, the Congress has increased SIGIRs oversight authority over other …
