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Army Working Capital Fund: Army Faces Challenges in Managing Working Capital Fund Cash Balance during Wartime Environment, GAO-10-480, June 22, 2010 Superfund: EPA’s Costs to Remediate Existing and Future Sites Will Likely Exceed Current Funding Levels, GAO-10-857T, June 22, 2010 Federal Courthouse Construction: Better Planning, Oversight, and Courtroom Sharing Needed to Address Future Costs, GAO-10-417, …
News release: “The U.S. Census Bureau today released July 1, 2009, population estimates for each of the nation’s incorporated places, including cities, boroughs and villages and minor civil divisions, such as towns and townships. The new estimates are not 2010 Census population counts. They are, however, the last estimates to use 2000 Census results as …
News release: “House Financial Services Chairman Frank, on behalf of the House conferees, released the House offer on the titles listed below. The issues will be subject to debate when the House-Senate Conference Committee convenes in room SD-106, Dirksen Senate Office Building, at 1:00 p.m. tomorrow. Title VI of base text: Improvements to Regulation of …
2010 Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement (June 2010): “Enforcement of intellectual property rights is a critical and efficient tool we can use, as a government, to strengthen the economy, support jobs and promote exports. Intellectual property supports jobs across all industries, and in particular where there is a high degree of creativity, research …
News release: “Today House and Senate conferees again met on the bill to bring accountability to Wall Street. The bill creates a new consumer financial protection watchdog, ends too big to fail bailouts, sets up an early warning system to predict and prevent the next crisis, and brings transparency and accountability to exotic instruments such …
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill – United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana: “Over 30 cases relating to the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill have been assigned to Judge Carl Barbier, Section J. The Deepwater Horizon incident has led to claims for the death of 11 individuals, numerous …
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this new report: Employment in the Oil and Gas Well Drilling Industry, June 18, 2010 “Employment in the oil and gas well drilling industry accounted for 63,012 jobs in September 2009, which is the most recent period available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) …
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this press release: “Today Representative Ed Markey (D-Mass.) released an internal BP document showing that the company’s own analysis believed that a worst-case scenario, based on damage to the well bore, could result in 100,000 barrels of oil per day. In the document, BP stated: …
Average Federal Tax Rates in 2007: “This page contains CBO’s estimates of average federal tax rates (tax rates as a percentage of income) paid by households in various income categories for the four largest sources of federal revenue – individual income taxes, social insurance (payroll) taxes, corporate income taxes, and excise taxes – as well …
U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team Makes Progress in Securing Cyberspace, but Challenges Remain, OIG-10-94, June 2010 “This report addresses the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Teams (US-CERT) efforts to coordinate national cyber analyses and warnings against and response to attacks within the nations critical infrastructure…US-CERT is hindered in its ability to provide an effective analysis and …
News release: “The first ever WHO Model Formulary for Children released by the WHO provides information on how to use over 240 essential medicines for treating illness and disease in children from 0 to 12 years of age. This means that for the first time medical practitioners worldwide have access to standardized information on the …
“The Design for America contest led to the most compelling, interesting visualizations of any of our contests. With about 72 entries, the design community stepped up and showed amazing ways for us to view government and imagine new ways for government to serve citizens. [The winners are here] The category most illustrative of how government …
