News release: “The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (the agencies) are seeking comment on proposed revisions to the interagency leveraged finance guidance issued in 2001. Transactions that are covered by this guidance are characterized by a borrower with a… Continue Reading
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New GAO Reports – DOD Supply Chain, Federal Statistical System, Force Structure, KC-46 Tanker Aircraft, TSA
DOD Supply Chain – Suspect Counterfeit Electronic Parts Can Be Found on Internet Purchasing Platforms – GAO-12-375, Feb 21, 2012 Federal Statistical System – Agencies Can Make Greater Use of Existing Data, but Continued Progress Is Needed on Access and Quality Issues, GAO-12-54, Feb 24, 2012 Force Structure – Assessment of Army Report on Fiscal… Continue Reading
DHS Privacy Office Delivers First Quarter Fiscal Year 2012 Report to Congress
Department of Homeland Security Privacy Office, First Quarter Fiscal Year 2012 Report to Congress “The PIA [Privacy Impact Assessments] process is one of the key mechanisms used to assure that the Departments use of technologies sustains, and does not erode, privacy protections relating to the use, collection, and disclosure of PII. As of November 30,… Continue Reading
Study by NOAA and Partners Shows Some Gulf Dolphins Severely Ill
Follow-up to previous postings on the Gulf Oil Spill, this new study: “Bottlenose dolphins in Barataria Bay, Louisiana, are showing signs of severe ill health, according to NOAA marine mammal biologists and their local, state, federal and other research partners. Barataria Bay, located in the northern Gulf of Mexico, received heavy and prolonged exposure to… Continue Reading
Annual Report on the Federal Work Force, Part II Work Force Statistics Fiscal Year 2010
EEOC – Annual Report on the Federal Work Force Part II Work Force Statistics Fiscal Year 2010 “In FY 2010, there were over 2.8 million women and men employed by the federal government across the country and around the world. 56.0% were men and 44% were women; after a slow but steady increase, the participation… Continue Reading
Revenues and Spending Under CBO's Extended Baseline Scenario and Two Alternatives Specified by Chairman Ryan
Revenues and Spending Under CBO’s Extended Baseline Scenario and Two Alternatives Specified by Chairman Ryan, March 23, 2012 “Allowing changes that are scheduled under current law to take effect including the expiration of tax cuts that originally went into effect in 2001 and 2003 is one of many possible approaches for preventing deficits from… Continue Reading
CDT – Decentralizing the Analysis of Health Data
Decentralizing the Analysis of Health Data, March 22, 2012 “As the digitization of health records makes it easier and more cost effective to share and analyze health data, policymakers and businesses are increasingly looking to use health data for secondary purposes uses beyond that for which the health data were originally collected. For example,… Continue Reading
Constitutional Authority Statements in Congress
Constitutional Authority Statements in Congress, Hanah M. Volokh, Emory University School of Law – Florida Law Review, Forthcoming “At the opening of the 112th Congress in January of 2011, the House of Representatives created a new rule that requires each bill or resolution introduced in the House to include a constitutional authority statement. This statement… Continue Reading
CDC – Trends in Tuberculosis – United States, 2010
Follow up to related postings on tuberculosis, via the CDC, Trends in Tuberculosis – United States, 2010, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), March 25, 2012 “In 2010, a total of 11,181 tuberculosis (TB) cases were reported in the United States, for a rate of 3.6 cases per 100,000 population, which was a decline of… Continue Reading
Commentary – Big Philanthropy's Role in Higher Education
Big Philanthropy’s Role in Higher Education, by Stanley N. Katz “According to a recent Chronicle study, America’s top 50 donors gave a total of $10.4-billion in 2011, rebounding from the $3.3-billion of the previous year, with its recession worries. Those numbers reflect the continued growth in the number of private philanthropic foundations in this country… Continue Reading
LLRX.com – Fiction is harder than fact, but the Web helps
Via LLRX.com – Fiction is harder than fact, but the Web helps – Nicholas Pengelley’s wide ranging global career spans law librarian, lawyer, law professor and analyst for a major international NGO. Now as the author of a new political thriller he explains why writing fiction is much harder to write than fact, based on… Continue Reading
EPIC: New Guidelines Expand Datamining Role of National Counterterrorism Center
EPIC: Under revised guidelines [unclassified] for the National Counterterrorism Center, the intelligence agency officials will be able to profile and track American citizens, suspected of no crime, for up to five years. The change represents a dramatic expansion of government surveillance and appears to violate the Privacy Act of 1974, which limits data exchanges across… Continue Reading
