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Department of State: Human Capital Strategy Does Not Recognize Foreign Assistance Responsibilities, GAO-07-1153, September 28, 2007 Disaster Housing: Implementation of FEMA’s Alternative Housing Pilot Program Provides Lessons for Improving Future Competitions, GAO-07-1143R, August 31, 2007 Financial Audit: Special Counsel Expenditures for the Six Months Ended March 31, 2007, GAO-07-1205, September 28, 2007 Information Security: Selected …
National Security Archive press release: “A District Court in the District of Columbia has ruled that an Executive Order [13,233] issued by President George W. Bush in 2001, which severely slowed or prevented the release of historic presidential papers is, in part, invalid. In a carefully constructed decision, the court held that the Archivist of …
A Review of the FBIs Progress in Responding to the Recommendations in the Office of the Inspector General Report on Robert Hanssen, September 2007 – PDF (Executive Summary Only) Office of Community Oriented Policing Services Homeland Security Overtime Program Grant to the City of Philadelphia Police Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Audit Report GR-70-07-004, September 2007 (Executive …
Press release: “Today the National Security Archive publishes a collection [links to 41 documents accompany this release] of documents concerning U.S. policy with regard to acknowledging the “fact of” U.S. satellite reconnaissance operations particularly satellite photoreconnaissance. It was 29 years ago today that President Jimmy Carter, in a speech at the Kennedy Space Center, …
Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies: FY2008 Appropriations, September 29, 2007 Ethanol and Other Biofuels: Potential for U.S.-Brazil Energy Cooperation, September 27, 2007 Public Transit Program Funding Issues in Surface Transportation Reauthorization, September 27, 2007 Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 1999-2006, September 26, 2007 Consumer Spending by Older Americans, 1985 to 2005, September …
Press release: “The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is relocating its Internet Web page to its own in-house servers. As part of this process, the court’s Web page address and domain name will be changed to www.cafc.uscourts.gov on October 1, 2007. The former Web page address and domain name, www.fedcir.gov, will …
September 27, 2007 press release: “Affordable housing recovery in three coastal counties in Mississippi heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina lags behind the pace of the rest of the housing market in the region, according to a RAND Corporation study released today. While construction permits had been issued as of July for approximately 60 percent of …
“The FMS Financial Data Registry is an authoritative reference for information about government-wide financial data elements; specifically those data elements commonly used across multiple agencies. The…registry is being developed to promote the common identification, use and appropriate sharing of financial data/information across the federal government. The registry contains information about the definition, authoritative source, data …
Criminal Justice Resources: Sex Offender Laws, by Ken Strutin The Veil Doctrine in Company Law, by Amin George Forji Congressional Budget Office Launches Topical Health Website, by George Butterfield Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide – Updated and Revised, by Sabrina I. Pacifici CongressLine by GalleryWatch.com: The Earmark Reality, by Paul Jenks The Government …
Rising Journal Costs Limit Scholarly Access, Emory University: “Are publishers getting rich publishing your research? A Bear-Stearns evaluation of Reed-Elsevier (one of the world’s largest publishers of scholarly journals) recently rated the company, which earns profits of almost 40% annually, “a stockholder’s dream.” Should private publishers be getting rich selling information generated by research that …
“Highlights from Doing Business 2008: As countries reform their business regulation, more businesses are starting up. Eastern Europe has witnessed a boom in new business entry that rivals the rapid growth in East Asia in the past. Large emerging markets such as India, China, Egypt, Turkey, and Indonesia, are reforming fast and investors are taking …
EPA press release: “Estimating the carbon footprint of commercial buildings has just become easier. Portfolio Manager, EPA’s on-line energy rating system for commercial buildings, now includes greenhouse gas emission factors. The updated ratings show that Energy Star buildings, which use an average of 35 percent less energy than typical buildings, also emit 35 percent less …
