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Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, via the U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder: “As we move forward, we will be guided by simple principles: We will ensure that every cent of taxpayer money will be repaid and damages to the environment and wildlife will be reimbursed. We will make certain that …
Review of the Department’s Preparation to Respond to a WMD Incident, Evaluation and Inspections Report I-2010-004, May 2010 “Our review found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has taken appropriate steps to prepare to respond to a potential WMD attack. The FBI has implemented a headquarters-led program that has established WMD response plans, provides …
Defense Infrastructure: Impact of Purchasing from Local Distributors All Alcoholic Beverages for Resale on Military Installations on Guam, GAO-10-563R, May 28, 2010 Department of Veterans Affairs: Agency Has Exceeded Contracting Goals for Veteran-Owned Small Businesses, but It Faces Challenges with Its Verification Program, GAO-10-458, May 28, 2010 VA Health Care: Reporting of Spending and Workload …
Bureau of Justice Statistics: National Corrections Reporting Program by Thomas P. Bonczar, May 25, 2010 “Updates the electronic series of selected tables on most serious offense, sentence length, and time served of state prison admissions and releases and parole entries and discharges. The National Corrections Reporting Program collects demographic information, conviction offenses, sentence length, credited …
Bureau of Justice Statistics: Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties, 2006, by Thomas H Cohen, Tracey Kyckelhahn, May 26, 2010, NCJ 228944 “Presents data collected from a representative sample of felony cases filed in the nation’s 75 most populous counties during May 2006. To provide a complete overview of the processing of felony defendants from …
CBO Report – Strategies for Maintaining the Navys and Marine Corps Inventories of Fighter Aircraft, May 2010 “The United States Navy and Marine Corps operate a fleet of tactical fighter aircraft that provide air-to-air and air-to-ground combat capabilities. Although current procurement plans call for the purchase of about 700 new fighter aircraft over the next …
Health Costs and the Federal Budget, May 2010. CBO Director Doug Elmendorf’s presentation to the Institute of Medicine. “Rising health costs will put tremendous pressure on the federal budget during the next few decades and beyond. In CBOs judgment, the health legislation enacted earlier this year does not substantially diminish that pressure.”
2009 Decline Widespread Across Industries: “Advance GDP by Industry Statistics for 2009 and Revised Statistics for 1998-2008 – Downturns in durable-goods manufacturing and finance and insurance and a continued contraction in construction were the leading contributors to the downturn in U.S. economic growth in 2009, according to preliminary statistics on the breakout of real gross …
Worst Case Housing Needs 2007, released May 2010: The report is the twelfth in the series of worst case housing needs reports that have been issued by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) since 1991. Worst case housing needs (WCN) are experienced by unassisted very low-income renters who either (1) pay more than …
Monthly Natural Gas Gross Production Report May 28, 2010: “Monthly natural gas gross withdrawals estimated from data collected on Form EIA-914 (Monthly Natural Gas Production Report) for Federal Offshore Gulf of Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming, Other States and Lower 48 States. Alaska data are from the State of Alaska and …
Article 29 Data Protection Working Party Press Release, Brussels, 26 May 2010: EU data protection group says Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! do not comply with data protection rules “The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, a group of European data protection authorities, today told the three major search engine operators Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft …
The Annual Electric Power Industry Report datafiles May 28, 2010: “The Annual Electric Power Industry Report datafiles have been expanded on EIA’s Electricity page. Expanded data collection now includes data on advanced metering, mergers & acquisitions, time- and incentive-based demand response programs, and additional data on green pricing and net metering programs for the …
