Category «E-Government»

New GAO Reports: Afghanistan and Pakistan, Aviation Weather, Homeland Defense, Security Disability, Wildland Fire Management

Afghanistan and Pakistan: Oversight of U.S. Interagency Efforts, GAO-09-1015T, September 09, 2009 Aviation Weather: FAA and the National Weather Service Are Considering Plans to Consolidate Weather Service Offices, but Face Significant Challenges, GAO-09-761, September 09, 2009 Homeland Defense: U.S. Northern Command Has a Strong Exercise Program, but Involvement of Interagency Partners and States Can Be …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

CBO: Monthly Budget Review, September 2009

Monthly Budget Review, September 2009. Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for July and the Daily Treasury Statements for August “The federal budget deficit for the first 11 months of fiscal year 2009 was almost $1.4 trillion, CBO estimates, close to $900 billion greater than the deficit recorded through August 2008. Outlays were $518 billion …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

CBO: Will the Demand for Assets Fall When the Baby Boomers Retire?

Will the Demand for Assets Fall When the Baby Boomers Retire? September 2009. Background Paper “Between 1946 and 1964, some 78 million babies were born in the United States, forming a cohort that has come to be known as the baby-boom generation. When the oldest people in the group turned 62 in 2008, the generations …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

New on LLRX.com – PACER Spending Survey

PACER Spending Survey: Stanford Law School deputy library director Erika Wayne describes an open source document access project focused on improving PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records), sponsored by a small group of research savvy and customer service oriented group of law librarians.

Subjects: Courts, E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

CDC, HHS and FDA Resources on 2009 H1N1 Influenza Vaccine

CDC – “What are the plans for developing 2009 H1N1 vaccine? “Vaccines are the most powerful public health tool for control of influenza, and the U.S. government is working closely with manufacturers to take steps in the process to manufacture a 2009 H1N1 vaccine. Working together with scientists in the public and private sector, CDC …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Summary Report of the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee

“A summary of the report from the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee was provided to the Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and NASA Administrator on Tuesday, September 8. The summary’s text is consistent with presentations made during the committee’s final public meeting on Aug. 12.” Transmittal Letter …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

New Political Realtiy of Web 2.0 – Connecting With the Public Via Microblogging

Newsweek: Whos Winning the Twitter Wars? How Democratic and Republican politicians use the popular microblogging service. “For the foreseeable future, Republicans will continue to broadcast their message widely,while the left-most wing of the Democratic Party mounts a quiet, steady defense. Strategists on both sides agree that Twitteror at least, the short-form communication that Twitter has …

Subjects: Blogs, Congress, E-Government

Working Paper – Electronic Public Access Fees and the United States Federal Courts Budget: An Overview

Electronic Public Access Fees and the United States Federal Courts Budget: An Overview Stephen Schultze, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. “This draft working paper examines the role of user fees for public access to records in the budgeting process of the federal courts. It sketches the policy principles that have traditionally …

Subjects: Courts, E-Government, Legal Research

Ensuring the Quality, Credibility, and Relevance of U.S. Justice Statistics

Ensuring the Quality, Credibility, and Relevance of U.S. Justice Statistics, 2009 “The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of the U.S. Department of Justice is one of the smallest of the U.S. principal statistical agencies but shoulders one of the most expansive and detailed legal mandates among those agencies. Ensuring the Quality, Credibility, and Relevance of …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

FDA Opens the Reportable Food Registry – Electronic Portal for Industry

“The Reportable Food Registry (RFR or the Registry) is an electronic portal for Industry to report when there is reasonable probability that an article of food will cause serious adverse health consequences. The Registry helps the FDA better protect public health by tracking patterns and targeting inspections. The Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legislation

Measuring the Effects of the Business Cycle on the Federal Budget: An Update

Measuring the Effects of the Business Cycle on the Federal Budget: An Update, September 1, 2009 Under CBOs assumptions for its baseline, the cyclically adjusted budget deficit will rise sharply in 2009, to 8.6 percent of potential gross domestic product (GDP) (from 2.7 percent in 2008). Potential GDP is the amount of output that corresponds …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization: The 2009 Annual Revision

September 2, 2009: “A Federal Reserve Bulletin article, Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization: The 2009 Annual Revision article reviews the 2009 annual revision to the index of industrial production (IP) and the related measures of capacity and capacity utilization. It discusses both the changes in estimation methods introduced in the revision and the revised estimates …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

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