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Overview of Immigration Issues in the 112th Congress, Ruth Ellen Wasem, Specialist in Immigration Policy, March 21, 2011 “The number of foreign-born people residing in the United States is at the highest level in U.S. history and has reached a proportion of the U.S. population12.5%not seen since the early 20th century. Of the 38 million …
Declan McCullagh,Chief political correspondent, CNET: How police have obtained iPhone, iPad tracking logs “Law enforcement agencies have known since at least last year that an iPhone or iPad surreptitiously records its owner’s approximate location, and have used that geolocation data to aid criminal investigations. Apple has never publicized the undocumented feature buried deep within the …
“Today Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman, Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Edward J. Markey, and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette released a new report, Chemicals Used in Hydraulic Fracturing, that summarizes the types, volumes, and chemical contents of the hydraulic fracturing products used by the 14 leading oil …
Congressional Liaison Offices of Selected Federal Agencies, April 01, 2011 “Congressional Liaison Offices of Selected Federal Agencies Congressional Research Service Summary This list of about 150 congressional liaison offices is intended to help congressional offices in placing telephone calls and addressing correspondence to government agencies. In each case, the information was supplied by the agency …
News release: “Concluding a two-year bipartisan investigation, Senator Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Senator Tom Coburn M.D., R-Okla., Chairman and Ranking Republican on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, [April 13, 2011] released a 635-page final report on their inquiry into key causes of the financial crisis. The report catalogs conflicts of interest, heedless risk-taking and …
“In the wake of the Fukushima disaster, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) set out to inspect the U.S. fleet of nuclear reactors to ensure their safety and report publicly on its findings. Yet today, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) revealed that significant limits may be imposed on the inspections, and that inspectors also have been …
Majority And Minority Staff Report United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Wall Street And The Financial Crisis: Anatomy Of A Financial Collapse, April 13, 2011 – : “This 639 page report, which was part of a 2-year bi-partisan investigation by the U.S. Senate Permanent Committee on Investigations …
“The Federal Trade Commission today told a House subcommittee that millions of consumers are victims of identity theft each year at a cost of billion of dollars and countless hours of consumers time to repair the damage. In testimony before the House Ways and Means Committees Social Security Subcommittee, the agency said helping protect consumers …
Federal Reserve Governor Daniel K. Tarullo – Derivatives regulation, Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., April 12, 2011 “The Dodd-Frank Act addressed both the infrastructure of the derivatives markets and the regulation and supervision of its dealers and major participants. Central counterparties are given an expanded role in …
Cost Estimate for H.R. 1473, The Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act of 2011 – April 12, 2011
Monthly Budget Review, April 2011, Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for February and the Daily Treasury Statements for March “The federal government incurred a budget deficit of $830 billion in the first six months of fiscal year 2011, CBO estimates$113 billion more than the shortfall recorded in the same period last year. Outlays and …
Fact Sheet – Report to the Congress, March 2011: “As required by the Congress, each March the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission reviews Medicare payment policies and makes recommendations. The 2011 report includes payment policy recommendations for ten payment systems: hospital inpatient, hospital outpatient, physician and other health professional, ambulatory surgical center, outpatient dialysis, skilled nursing, …
