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News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a list of U.S. metropolitan areas with the largest number of energy efficient buildings that earned EPAs Energy Star in 2009. The list is headed by Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Denver, Chicago, Houston, Lakeland, Dallas-Fort Worth, Atlanta and New York. Energy efficiency saves building …
Direct Spending and Defense Programs, March 23, 2010. Testimony before the Subcommittee on Military Personnel, Committee on Armed Services, U.S. House of Representatives. “For 2010, CBO estimates that total federal spending, under an assumption that current laws and policies remain unchanged, will be about $3.5 trillion. Of that amount, about $1.4 trillion (40 percent) will …
Recent Trends in Cesarean Delivery in the United States – Fay Menacker, Dr. P.H., and Brady E. Hamilton, Ph.D. National Center for Health Statistics Data Brief No. 35, March 2010. “In 2007, nearly one-third (32%) of all births were cesarean deliveries. Although there are often clear clinical indications for a cesarean delivery, the short- and …
News release: “[March 22, 2010] the FBI released bank crime statistics for calendar year 2009. Between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009, there were 5,943 robberies, 100 burglaries, 19 larcenies, and three extortions of financial institutions1 reported to law enforcement. The total 6,065 reported violations represents a decrease from 2008, during which 6,8572 violations …
Briefing on the Results of GAO’s Audit of the Fiscal Years 2009 and 2008 U.S. Government’s Consolidated Financial Statements, GAO-10-502R, March 22, 2010 Energy Employees Compensation: Additional Independent Oversight and Transparency Would Improve Program’s Credibility, GAO-10-302, March 22, 2010 Status of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Efforts to Implement GAO’s 2007 Recommendations Regarding Its Section …
Oversight of the National Organic Program, Report No: 01601-03-HY, Issued March 2010 “We conducted this audit to assess the effectiveness of the Agricultural Marketing Services (AMS) corrective actions implemented in response to our prior audit of the National Organic Program (NOP). We also conducted this audit because of the size and growth of the organic …
News release: “U.S. businesses spent $1.38 trillion on new and used structures and equipment in 2008, of which $1.29 trillion, or 93.7 percent, was spent on new structures and equipment, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. These figures were nearly the same in 2007. These findings come from the Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES), which …
“Making the Most of Social Media is written for local governmentscities, counties, townships and their affiliatesthat are beginning to experiment with social media and would like to get more out of them. Its emphasis is on the use of specific applications, such as Facebook and Twitter, by government managers and communications directors. More than two …
News release: “The Judicial Conference of the United States approved key steps to improve public access to federal courts by increasing the availability of court opinions and expanding the services and reducing the costs for many users of the Public Access to Electronic Court Records (PACER) system. At its biannual meeting in Washington, D.C., the …
Danny Werfel, Controller, March 18, 2010 – Update on the Financial Systems Integration Office “Improving the cost, quality, and performance of financial management operations and systems is one of the Administrations management priorities. Over the past several years, efforts to achieve these objectives have been conducted under the Financial Management Line of Business (FMLoB) and …
News release: “Federal Trade Commission staff has filed comments with the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) supporting a measure designed to protect consumers from deceptive claims and to help them make better-informed decisions about whether to obtain a reverse mortgage. Reverse mortgages, typically available only to borrowers age 62 or older, allow them to …
“CourtWEB provides information on selected recent opinions of those judges of the United States Courts who elect to make information available on this site. When an opinion is posted to CourtWEB by chambers, the description that appears will typically include the caption, case number, terms relevant to your search, relevancy score, date, judge’s name, and …
