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The Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet held a hearing titled, Communications Networks and Consumer Privacy: Recent Developments on April 23, 2009. The hearing focused on technologies that network operators utilize to monitor consumer usage and how those technologies intersect with consumer privacy. The hearing explored three ways to monitor consumer usage on broadband …
News release: “Today, in an Earth Day speech at a wind turbine tower manufacturing plant, President Barack Obama announced that the Department of the Interior has finalized a long-awaited framework for renewable energy production on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). The framework establishes a program to grant leases, easements, and rights-of-way for orderly, safe, …
Prepared by the Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation: Tax Expenditures for Energy Production and Conservation, Scheduled for a Public Hearing Before the Senate Committee on Finance, April 23, 2009. “The Senate Committee on Finance has scheduled a public hearing on April 23, 2009, titled Technology Neutrality in Energy Tax: Issues and Options. Since …
Secretary Geithner Opening Statement Before the Congressional Oversight Panel, April 21, 2009: “Today I will outline the steps taken by the Obama Administration to restore the flow of credit to get our economy back on track and Americans back to work.” Secretary Geithner Written Testimony Congressional Oversight Panel, April 21, 2009: “The challenges that our …
Unclassified and Redacted – Inquiry Into the Treatment Of Detainees In U.S. Custody, November 20, 2008 (Released, April 22, 2009) (263 pages, PDF) “The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody cannot simply be attributed to the actions of “a few bad apples” acting on their own. The fact is that senior officials in the United …
The Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, April 21, 2009 – Quarterly Report to Congress: “The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) now includes 12 separate, but often interrelated, programs involving Government and private funds of up to almost $3 trillion roughly the equivalent of last years entire Federal budget. From programs …
News release: “On April 17, 2009, HHS issued guidance specifying the technologies and methodologies that render protected health information unusable, unreadable, or indecipherable to unauthorized individuals, as required by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act passed as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). This guidance …
News release: “[April 17, 2009] the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee posted to its website a joint discussion draft and summary for the 21st Century Energy Technology Deployment Act. {CEDA] This proposal, put forward by the bipartisan Committee staff, seeks to improve the loan guarantee program at the Department of Energy and to provide …
“Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) believes the many fees extracted from 401(k) accounts are adding insult to injury for millions of Americans whose accounts have been decimated by stock losses and whose retirements are now in jeopardy. Miller talks to 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft for a report on how the recession is affecting 401(k) retirement …
Small Business Administration’s Implementation of Administrative Provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, GAO-09-507R, April 16, 2009 Maritime Security: Vessel Tracking Systems Provide Key Information, but the Need for Duplicate Data Should Be Reviewed, GAO-09-337, March 17, 2009 Superfund: Greater EPA Enforcement and Reporting Are Needed to Enhance Cleanup at DOD Sites, GAO-09-278, March …
The Global Financial Crisis: Analysis and Policy Implications, Dick K. Nanto, Coordinator, Specialist in Industry and Trade, April 3, 2009. “What began as a bursting of the U.S. housing market bubble and a rise in foreclosures has ballooned into a global financial and economic crisis. The world now appears to have entered a global recession …
Public Law 1115, 111th Congress, 123 STAT. 115, Feb. 17, 2009 [H.R. 1] American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. 407 pages, PDF “An Act Making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for the fiscal year ending September …
