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Contract Audits: Role in Helping Ensure Effective Oversight and Reducing Improper Payments, GAO-11-331T, February 01, 2011 Border Security: Enhanced DHS Oversight and Assessment of Interagency Coordination Is Needed for the Northern Border, GAO-11-97, December 17, 2010
“The Federal Trade Commission issued its annual report to the Federal Reserve Board on FTC enforcement activities regarding the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA), Consumer Leasing Act, and Truth in Lending Act. This years report also discusses FTC activities under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, such as …
Patterns of Misconduct: FBI Intelligence Violations from 2001 – 2008, A Report Prepared by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, January 2011 “In a review of nearly 2,500 pages of documents released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a result of litigation under the Freedom of Information Act, EFF uncovered alarming trends in the Bureaus intelligence …
News release: “Agriculture Secretary TomVilsack and Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius today announced the release of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the federal government’s evidence-based nutritional guidance to promote health, reduce the risk of chronic diseases, and reduce the prevalence of overweight and obesity through improved nutrition …
News release: “Personal income increased $54.5 billion, or 0.4 percent, and disposable personal income (DPI) increased $47.3 billion, or 0.4 percent, in December, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $69.5 billion, or 0.7 percent. In November, personal income increased $44.9 billion, or 0.4 percent, DPI increased $39.0 billion, or …
An Open Government Implementation Model: Moving to Increased Public Engagement, IBM Center for the Business of Government, January 2011 “This report presents an Open Government Implementation Model (OGIM) for guiding government agencies towards open government. Our model defines four implementation stages and describes the focuses, deliverables, benefits, challenges, best practices, and metrics for each stage. …
News release: “The federal bank, thrift and credit union regulatory agencies, along with the Farm Credit Administration, announce that the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry will begin accepting federal registrations today. Under the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act (S.A.F.E. Act) and the agencies’ final rules, residential mortgage loan originators employed by …
Financial Management: NOAA Needs to Better Document Its Policies and Procedures for Providing Management and Administration Services, GAO-11-226, January 31, 2011 Hearing Loss Prevention: Improvements to DOD Hearing Conservation Programs Could Lead to Better Outcomes, GAO-11-114, January 31, 2011 Rail Transit: FTA Programs Are Helping Address Transit Agencies’ Safety Challenges, but Improved Performance Goals and …
White House Blog: “As the President said in the State of the Union address, winning the future will take doing what we can do now to prepare America to compete in the global economy for decades to come. That means out-educating, out-innovating, and out-building our competition; restoring fiscal responsibility to remove the burden of deficits …
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) January 2011: Quarterly Report To Congress “Over the next 11 months the nature of the U.S. Presence in Iraq will fundamentally alter, with certain reconstruction elements either ceasing operations or transitioning responsibilities to other agencies. By September, the final Provincial Reconstruction Teams are slated to close as two …
“Privacy International, EPIC, and the Center for Media and Communications Studies (CMSC) released European Privacy and Human Rights (EPHR) 2010, a report investigating the scope of privacy and data protection laws in Europe. The study includes 33 individual reports covering issues from privacy enforcement to ID cards, biometrics, and data-sharing and video surveillance The study …
Natural Gas Monthly Jan 28, 2011: “Monthly natural and supplemental gas production, supply, consumption, disposition, storage, imports, exports, and prices in the United States. (Data reported through November 2010.) Monthly Natural Gas Gross Production Report Jan 28, 2011: “Monthly natural gas gross withdrawals estimated from data collected on Form EIA-914 (Monthly Natural Gas …
