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Estimated Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Employment and Economic Output as of September 2009 – November 2009 “Recipients report that about 640,000 jobs were created or retained with ARRA funding through September 2009. Such reports, however, do not provide a comprehensive estimate of the laws impact on employment in the United …
Tora Bora Revisited: How We Failed to Get Bin Laden and Why It Matters Today, November 30, 2009: “This report by the Committee majority staff is part of our continuing examination of the conflict in Afghanistan. When we went to war less than a month after the attacks of September 11, the objective was to …
An Analysis of Health Insurance Premiums Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, November 30, 2009 – Letter to the Honorable Evan Bayh “There is great interest in how proposals being considered by the Congress to change the health care and health insurance systems would affect premiums paid for health insurance in various markets. …
Temporary Extension of Unemployment Benefits: Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08), November 17, 2009 “In July 2008, a new temporary unemployment benefit, the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08) program, began. The EUC08 program was created by P.L. 110-252, and it was amended by P.L. 110-449, P.L. 111-5, and P.L. 111-92. This temporary unemployment insurance program provides up to …
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs – The Fort Hood Attack: A Preliminary Assessment, November 19, 2009
H.R. 3962, Affordable Health Care for America Act, November 20, 2009. Revised cost estimate for the bill as passed by the House of Representatives Information on Medicare’s Payments to Physicians and the Budgetary Effects of H.R. 3961, the Medicare Physicians Payment Reform Act of 2009, November 19, 2009. Letter to the Honorable Paul Ryan Patient …
“The American Civil Liberties Union today released a new report, Enforcing Privacy: Building American Institutions to Protect Privacy in the Face of New Technology and Government Powers, November 2009, written by Jay Stanley, recommending steps Congress should take to create the vigorous privacy oversight institutions that are desperately needed in the United States to counterbalance …
CRS Report R40901 – Terrorism Information Sharing and the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Report Initiative: Background and Issues for Congress, November 05, 2009 “The 2004 National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission) cited breakdowns in information sharing and the failure to fuse pertinent intelligence (i.e., “connecting the dots”) as key factors …
Federal Employees Retirement System: Legislation Enacted in the 111th Congress, Patrick Purcell, Specialist in Income Security, November 12, 2009: “On June 22, 2009, President Barack Obama signed into law H.R. 1256, the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 (P.L. 111-31). Title I of Division B of H.R. 1256 is the Thrift Savings …
Job Loss and Infrastructure Job Creation Spending During the Recession, Linda Levine, Specialist in Labor Economics, October 2, 2009 “A question that typically arises during congressional consideration of economic stimulus legislation is which approach produces the most bang for the buck. In the instant case, this means how many jobs might be supported by federal …
Follow up to previous postings on the establishment of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, the following new documents released by Sen. Dodd via his press release: Discussion draft “To identify and address risks to the stability of the United States financial system through the establishment of the Agency for Financial Stability, to ensure the orderly …
House Report 111-330, to accompany H. Res. 903 RH – The rule providing for consideration of H.R. 3962, Affordable Health Care for America Act, contains a summary of the amendment, the Common Sense Health Care Reform and Affordability Act.
