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Latin American Governments Need to “Friend” Social Media and Technology, by Carl Meacham, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer for Latin America and the Caribbean, October 5, 2011 “In 2011, social media usage is booming and will likely continue to do so in the coming years. Earlier this month, it was reported that Facebook now …
News release: “Congress is demanding drones in the air over the United States without considering the civil liberties issues. Within the span of three days last week, the House and then the Senate passed a law H.R. 658 requiring the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to speed up, within 90 days, its current …
The U.S. Postal Services Financial Condition: Overview and Issues for Congress. Kevin R. Kosar, Analyst in American National Government, January 27, 2012 “This report provides an overview of the U.S. Postal Services (USPSs) financial condition, legislation enacted to alleviate the USPSs financial challenges, and possible issues for the 112th Congress. It also includes a side-by-side …
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke – The Economic Outlook and the Federal Budget Situation, Before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. February 2, 2012 “Globally, economic activity appears to be slowing, restrained in part by spillovers from fiscal and financial developments in Europe. The combination of high debt levels and weak …
The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022. January 2012 “Each January, CBO prepares baseline budget projections spanning the next 10 years. Those projections are not a forecast of future events; rather, they are intended to provide a benchmark against which potential policy changes can be measured. Therefore, as specified in law, those …
Fatally Flawed: Five Years of Gun-walking in Arizona, Report of the Minority Staff, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives, January 2012 “…this report tells the story of how misguided gunwalking operations originated in 2006 as ATFs Phoenix Field Division devised a strategy to forgo prosecutions …
Presidential Signing Statements: Constitutional and Institutional Implications – Todd Garvey, Legislative Attorney. January 4, 2012 “Presidential signing statements are official pronouncements issued by the President contemporaneously to the signing of a bill into law that, in addition to commenting on the law generally, have been used to forward the Presidents interpretation of the statutory language; …
Credit Rating Agencies – Alternative Compensation Models for Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations, GAO-12-240, Jan 18, 2012 Dodd-Frank Act – Hybrid Capital Instruments and Small Institution Access to Capital, GAO-12-237, Jan 18, 2012 Real Estate Appraisals – Appraisal Subcommittee Needs to Improve Monitoring Procedures, GAO-12-147, Jan 18, 2012 Real Estate Appraisals – Survey of State …
Sunlight Foundation: “Making good on part of the House of Representative’s commitment to increase congressional transparency, today the House Clerk’s office launched http://docs.house.gov/, a one stop website where the public can access all House bills, amendments, resolutions for floor consideration, and conference reports in XML, as well as information on floor proceedings and more. Information …
Unauthorized Appropriations and Expiring Authorizations, January 13, 2012: “As required, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports each January to the Congress on the following: All programs and activities funded for the current fiscal year for which authorizations of appropriations have expired, and; All programs and activities for which authorizations of appropriations will expire during the …
Via The Thicket: “National Conference of State Legislatures’s (NCSL) new 2012 Presidential Primary Calendar, and its companion, a state-ordered table, 2012 State and Presidential Primary and Caucus Dates…Jennie Bowser created the lists and checked them against a multitude of official sources. She says, this year, it was more complicated than ever to assemble this data. …
Men Rule The Continued Under-Representation of Women in U.S. Politics, January 2012 “Study after study finds that, when women run for office, they perform just as well as their male counterparts. No differences emerge in women and mens fundraising receipts, vote totals, or electoral success. Yet women remain severely under-represented in U.S. political institutions. …
