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Follow up to related postings on “midnight regulations,” this news release and report: “In 2001, the Bush administration began its radical, anti-environmental agenda by rescinding, changing, or issuing rules that degraded Americas environment. From refusing to reduce the arsenic levels in drinking water, to opening wilderness areas to new roads, to rejecting the Kyoto Protocol …
News release: “The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) today outlined the key policies that President-elect Obama and the Congressional leadership must address to expand the use of solar energy and help put over 1 million Americans back to work by 2011. SEIA released Solar Energy: A Blueprint for Job Creation and Economic Security, which recommends …
Mr. Frank of Massachusetts introduced the following bill on December 10, 2008: Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act (1) to immediately provide authority and facilities to restore liquidity and stability to the domestic automobile industry in the United States; and (2) to ensure that such authority and such facilities are used in a manner that(A) …
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing on investments in clean energy and natural resources projects and programs to create green jobs and to stimulate the economy: Testimony of Bracken Hendricks, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Action Fund, December 10, 2008: “In this testimony, the Center for American Progress Action Fund offers some …
Via Taxpayers for Common Sense: “The Congressional Oversight Panel for Economic Stabilization has released its first report on the $700 billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Act.” Hensarling Testifies Before House Financial Services Committee – [here] is a copy of the testimony (as prepared for delivery) by Congressman Jeb Hensarling, Chairman of the Republican Study Committee and …
DOJ OIG: Review of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), Evaluation and Inspections Report I-2009-001, December 2008: “…we found that information in the national sex offender registries is incomplete and inaccurate and therefore the registries are not reliable tools for law enforcement and the public. For example, we found that registries were missing …
News release: “Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Bart Stupak (D-MI), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, today released a Committee on Energy and Commerce Majority Staff report detailing the findings of the Committees bipartisan investigation relating to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)…The report, titled Deception and Distrust: The Federal …
Follow up on previous postings concerning the auto industry bailout, today’s draft bill – Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act, December 8, 2008: “The purposes of this Act are (1) to immediately provide authority and facili16 ties to restore liquidity and stability to the domestic automobile industry in the United States; and (2) to ensure …
“The House Oversight Committee will next Tuesday consider a report supported by Chairman Henry A. Waxman and former Ranking Member Tom Davis finding that President Bush made a legally unprecedented and an inappropriate use of executive privilege when he directed Attorney General Mukasey to withhold Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgeralds interview of Vice President Cheney from …
Auto Industry: A Framework for Considering Federal Financial Assistance, GAO-09-247T, December 05, 2008: “From our previous work on federal financial assistance to large firms and municipalities, we have identified three fundamental principles that can serve as a framework for considering future assistance. These principles are (1) identifying and defining the problem, (2) determining the national …
News release: “The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy has unveiled its Transition Plan for Securing America’s Energy Future, an energy policy roadmap with 88 concrete recommendations and detailed timelines for President-elect Barack Obama and the 111th Congress.” “For over 40 years, the United States has had an inadequate, contradictory, and shortsighted …
“Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director James B. Lockhart today submitted to Congress the first report as a Federal Property Manager (FPM) detailing actions FHFA is taking to prevent unnecessary foreclosures. Section 110 of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) directs Federal Property Managers to develop and implement plans to maximize assistance for …
