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Analysis of Federal Civilian and Military Compensation, January 20, 2011 Letter to the Honorable Steny H. Hoyer “The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) was asked to compare federal civilian and military compensation. Total compensation can be divided into three components:cash compensation (including pay, cash allowances, and bonuses); noncash benefits (such as subsidized health insurance and child …
Via House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) – “YouCut a first-of-its-kind project – is designed to defeat the permissive culture of runaway spending in Congress. It allows you to vote, both online and on your cell phone, on spending cuts that you want to see the House enact. Each week that the House is …
News release: “Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius released a new analysis showing that, without the Affordable Care Act, up to 129 million non-elderly Americans who have some type of pre-existing health condition, like heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis or cancer, would be at risk of losing health insurance when they need it …
Present Law And Historical Overview Of The Federal Tax System, Scheduled for a Public Hearing Before the Committee on Ways and Means on January 20, 2011, Prepared by the Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, January 18, 2011, JCX-1-11 (January 18, 2011) This document, prepared by the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, …
Unauthorized Appropriations and Expiring Authorizations (Appropriations). “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 current fiscal …
“The sixth in a series of congressionally mandated reports on Gulf War veterans’ health, this volume evaluates the health effects associated with stress. Since the launch of Operation Desert Storm in 1991, there has been growing concern about the physical and psychological health of Gulf War and other veterans. In the late 1990s, Congress responded …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission has issued a fourth interim report to Congress describing progress the agency has made on a national study examining the accuracy of credit reports. Congress directed the FTC to conduct a study of credit report accuracy and provide interim reports every two years, starting in 2004 and continuing through …
The 2010 Congressional Reapportionment and Latinos, January 2010 “Hispanic voters are nearly three times more prevalent in states that gained congressional seats and Electoral College votes in the 2010 reapportionment than they are in states that lost seats, according to an analysis of Census data by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew …
Sources Sought: “The Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) of the United States House of Representatives seeks vendors experienced with web design, development and support using Drupal, the open-source web content management system. This is a source selection process only. The CAO will not be making any contract awards during this process. The CAO has established a …
News release: “The US Library of Congress chose the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University (LII) to help develop new methods to preserve, analyze, organize, and present Congressional legislative information and materials digitally. The project is headed by LII Director Thomas R. Bruce. Dave Shetland, Sara Frug, and Wayne Weibel will make up the rest …
Justice Undone: The Release of the Lockerbie Bomber, December 2010 “This report was recently released by the United States Senate, and investigates the release of Abselbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the Libyan national that was convicted of planting a bomb on Pan Am Flight 103. On December 21, 1988, this flight exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland killing …
Salon: “The high-capacity magazine of the semiautomatic pistol used in the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and more than a dozen other people on Saturday would have been illegal to manufacture and difficult to purchase under the Clinton-era assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004. According to police and media reports, the alleged shooter, Jared …
