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Statement of Douglas W. Elmendorf, Director, The Economic Outlook and Fiscal Policy Choices, before the Committee on the Budget United States Senate September 28, 2010 “CBO expectsas do most private forecastersthat the economic recovery will proceed at a modest pace during the next few years. In its projections released in August, CBO forecast that, under …
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, Regulatory Reform Implementation, Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., September 30, 2010 “A final element of the Federal Reserve’s efforts to implement the Dodd-Frank Act relates to the transparency of our balance sheet and liquidity programs. Well before enactment, we were providing a great …
News release: [On September 22, 2010] the Federal Trade Commission told a Senate Subcommittee that it supports proposed legislation that would require many companies to use reasonable data security policies and procedures and require those companies to notify consumers when there is a security breach. In testimony before the Committee on Science, Commerce, and Transportation …
House Armed Services Committee: The Terrorism, Unconventional Threats, and Capabilities Subcommittee met to receive testimony on Operating in the Digital Domain: Organizing the Military Departments for Cyber Operations, September 23, 2010. “The recent announcement that the Department of Defense (DOD) suffered a major compromise of classified military computer networks has renewed discussions about what more …
Statement of Secretary Janet Napolitano before the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Nine Years After 9/11: Confronting the Terrorist Threat to the Homeland, September 22, 2010 “Chairman Lieberman, Senator Collins, and members of the Committee: Thank you for this opportunity to testify on the continuing and evolving terrorist threat to …
News release: “As the Senate prepares to consider small business jobs legislation this week, a new report by the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC) shows that lending to small businesses has declined in 2010, small business hiring remains flat and the smallest firms continue to reduce hiring…The report, entitled Small Business Employment: Bank Lending …
News release: “In testimony before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee, the Federal Trade Commission explained how it protects consumers by applying well-established principles of competition to fast-changing technology markets. Some have argued that there should be different rules for markets characterized by rapid technological development, but Congress drafted the antitrust laws in general terms …
House Rules Changes: Sunlights Proposals for the 112th Congress, September 16, 2010 “The rules of the House and Senate have extraordinary influence. The Constitution, in granting each chamber the ability to determine the rules of its proceedings, has allowed Congress to create the evolving set of processes, norms and standards by which it functions. The …
News release: “A panel of retired senior U.S. military officers, former Members of Congress, National Guard generals and academics with expertise in responding to domestic disasters today delivered to the Congress and the secretary of defense a far-reaching report that details how defense officials can better support the nation’s response to a major disaster on …
News release: “Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., took Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials to task Wednesday for the Departments failure to complete a global architecture to detect the smuggling of nuclear materials, despite a five-year effort and the expenditure of $4 billion of …
News release: “A coalition of 31 consumer, animal welfare and environmental groups, along with commercial and recreational fisheries associations and food retailers submitted a joint statement criticizing an announcement this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it will potentially approve the long-shelved AquAdvantage transgenic salmon as the first genetically engineered (GE) …
Follow up to previous postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this news release: “Chairman Henry A. Waxman and Subcommittee Chairman Bart Stupak released information from BP regarding its spending on corporate advertising and marketing following the April 20, 2010, explosion at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. At the suggestion of Representative Kathy Castor, on …
