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Fact Sheet: “The Securities and Exchange Commission [May 18, 2011] voted unanimously to propose new rules and amendments intended to increase transparency and improve the integrity of credit ratings. The proposed rules would implement certain provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and enhance the SECs existing rules governing credit ratings …
News release: “The latest Broadband Progress Report to Congress from the Federal Communications Commission reveals that approximately 26 million Americans, mostly in rural communities located in every region of the country, are denied access to the jobs and economic opportunity made possible by broadband. While the infrastructure of high-speed Internet is unavailable to those Americans, …
News release: “The debt limit is the total amount of money that the United States government is authorized to borrow to meet its existing legal obligations, including Social Security and Medicare benefits, military salaries, interest on the national debt, tax refunds, and other payments. The debt limit does not authorize new spending commitments. It simply …
The Highway Trust Fund and Paying for Highways – May 17, 2011, – Testimony before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate “The United States spends about $160 billion annually on highways, with about one-fourth of that total, or roughly $40 billion, coming from the federal government. Federal highway spending is funded mainly through taxes …
Follow up to Senate Investigations Subcommittee Releases Levin-Coburn Report On the Financial Crisis, via Rolling Stone, The People vs. Goldman Sachs – A Senate committee has laid out the evidence. Now the Justice Department should bring criminal charges, by Matt Tabbai.
“…the Administration has transmitted a cybersecurity legislative proposal to Capitol Hill in response to Congress call for assistance on how best to address the cybersecurity needs of our Nation. This is a milestone in our national effort to ensure secure and reliable networks for Americans, businesses, and government; fundamentally, this proposal strikes a critical balance …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission today told Congress that the Commission is committed to protecting consumers privacy in the mobile sphere by bringing enforcement actions where appropriate and by working with industry and consumer groups to develop workable solutions that protect consumers while allowing innovation in this growing marketplace. In Commission testimony before the …
FDLP Listserv: “On March 17, Public Printer Bill Boarman testified before the Senate appropriations subcommittee on the costs of producing Federal publications, such as the Congressional Record. Subsequently, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) made a YouTube video on the production of the Congressional Record to illustrate the production process for this important publication. With …
The big four phone carriers spill on their location and customer data collection policies: “The recent uproar over location tracking in smartphones has gotten ugly and fingers are bound to be pointed. But in the spirit of transparency, the four major carriers have outlined and detailed their location tracking applications s well as what exactly …
The Orderly Liquidation of Lehman Brothers Holdings under the Dodd-Frank Act, April 18, 2011 “The report examines how the FDIC could have structured an orderly resolution of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. under the orderly liquidation authority of Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act had that law been in effect …
Fact sheet: “The Securities and Exchange Commission voted unanimously to propose rules further defining the terms swap, security-based swap, and security-based swap agreement. The Commission also proposed rules regarding mixed swaps and books and records for security-based swap agreements. The rules were proposed jointly with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and stem from the …
Total Tweeters By Party – 402: “We believe transparent government is better government. Twitter enables real conversation between lawmakers and voters, in real time. Find your representatives in Congress, follow them…* Democrat 167, * Independent 2, * Republican 233”
