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Putting a Lid on International Scams: 10 Tips for Being a Canny Consumer: “Mass marketing fraud is a significant source of income for international crime rings. Con artists ignore geographic boundaries to reach out to potential victims by phone, email, postal mail, and through the Internet, and then trick them into sending money or giving …
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill see H.R.5503 – Securing Protections for the Injured from Limitations on Liability Act. Sponsor: Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] (introduced 6/10/2010) Cosponsors (26). Latest Major Action: 7/1/2010. Passed/agreed to in House. Status: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed …
Follow up to Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, House of Representatives, 111th Congress, 2nd Session, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act – House Report 111-517, dated June 29, 2010, ordered to be printed. Related postings on financial system
July 2010 Petroleum Marketing Monthly With Data for April 2010 – July 1, 2010: “Monthly price and volume statistics on crude oil and petroleum products at a national, regional and state level.”
Highlights of Womens Earnings in 2009, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 2010, Report 1025 “In 2009, women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median weekly earnings of $657, or about 80 percent of the $819 median for their male counterparts. In 1979, the first year for which comparable …
Information Security: Governmentwide Guidance Needed to Assist Agencies in Implementing Cloud Computing, GAO-10-855T, July 01, 2010 Warfighter Support: Actions Needed to Improve the Joint Improvised Exposive Device Defeat Organization’s System of Internal Control, GAO-10-660, July 01, 2010 Biosurveillance: Efforts to Develop a National Biosurveillance Capability Need a National Strategy and a Designated Leader, GAO-10-645, June …
Social Security Policy Options, July 2010 “Social Security is the federal governments largest single program, and as the U.S. population grows older in the coming decades, its cost is projected to increase more rapidly than its revenues. As a result, under current law, resources dedicated to the program will become insufficient to pay full benefits …
News release: “The Federal Communications Commission today launched the Data Innovation Initiative, the agencys latest action to modernize and streamline how it collects, uses, and disseminates data. With this launch, the FCC continues the changes that were made as part of a comprehensive reform effort that is improving the agencys fact-based, data-driven decision-making. To lead …
Consultation on Derivatives and Market Infrastructures – frequently asked questions – “Why has the Internal Market and Services Directorate General of the European Commission launched another public consultation on Derivatives and Market Infrastructures? The European Commission adopted a Communication on “Ensuring efficient, safe and sound derivatives markets future policy actions”, on 20th October 2009 …
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this news release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released peer reviewed results from the first round of its own independent toxicity testing on eight oil dispersants. EPA conducted testing to ensure that decisions about ongoing dispersant use in the Gulf of Mexico continue to …
Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment Summary, May 2010: “Unemployment rates were higher in May than a year earlier in 222 of the 372 metropolitan areas, lower in 141 areas, and unchanged in 9 areas, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Thirteen areas recorded jobless rates of at least 15.0 percent, while 9 areas …
Department of Defense Open Government Plan Version 1.1, June 25, 2010 “The Department has made significant progress in the weeks since we first published our Open Government Plan. Personnel from across the Department continue to contribute datasets for Data.gov We solicited feedback from outside government groups on our initial Plan, and incorporated their input. Additionally, …
