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D.C. Air Quality 2008 vs. 2009, posted by Chris Naille, Meteorologist. More Code Red Days in 2008 than in 2009: “Much of the summer thus far has been noted by slightly cooler than average temperatures coupled with an active weather pattern that has yielded nearly daily chances of showers and storms. Compared to 2008 when …
Transcript: “In this weeks address, President Barack Obama will announce new steps to make it easier for American families to save for retirement. These new initiatives will complement the presidents major legislative proposals to boost participation in IRAs and match retirement savings.” Attached is a fact sheet that outlines the new initiatives for retirement savings. …
White Hosue Policy: “The President has decided to increase governmental transparency by implementing a voluntary disclosure policy governing White House visitor access records. The White House will release, on a monthly basis, all previously unreleased WAVES and ACR access records that are 90 to 120 days old. For example, records created in January 2010 will …
White House: “We have previously reported six limited waivers that have been granted by the White House pursuant to the Presidents Executive Order on Ethics for Executive Branch personnel the strongest ethics standards in U.S. government history. Three of these waivers involved lobbying-related issues and three did not. We blogged about them here, here, …
The Government Printing Office (GPO) is pleased to announce the release of 8 new collections into the Federal Digital System (FDsys). The new collections are: Congressional Directory (105th Congress to present) Congressional Record (Bound) (1999 to 2001) Congressional Record Index (Daily) (1983 to Present) Economic Report of the President (1996 to present) GAO Reports and …
News release: “Nonfarm payroll employment continued to decline in August (-216,000), and the unemployment rate rose to 9.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Although job losses continued in many of the major industry sectors in August, the declines have moderated in recent months. In August, the number of unemployed persons increased …
September 2009 Petroleum Marketing Monthly With Data for June 2009 (09/01/2009): Monthly price and volume statistics on crude oil and petroleum products at a national, regional and state level. Estimates of Peak Underground Working Gas Storage Capacity in the United States, 2009 Update (08/31/2009): “This report provides estimates of aggregate peak working gas capacity and …
“The global regulatory framework failed to prevent the build-up of risk in the financial system in the years leading up to the recent financial crisis. The sources of this failure were manifold, including insufficient capital and liquidity requirements for banking firms; inadequate and fragmented supervision and regulation of bank and non-bank financial firms that posed …
Report of Investigation, United States Securites and Exchange Commission Office of Inspector General, Case No. OIG-509 Investigation of Failure of the SEC To Uncover Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme, August 31, 2009. Executive Summary: “The OIG investigation did not find evidence that any SEC personnel who worked on an SEC examination or investigation of Bernard L. …
News release: ” American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. and its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Company Inc. (hereinafter together “Pfizer”) have agreed to pay $2.3 billion, the largest health care fraud settlement in the history of the Department of Justice, to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from the illegal promotion of certain pharmaceutical products, the …
Criminal Victimization, 2008 – “Presents the annual estimates of rates and levels of personal and property victimization and describes the year-to-year change from 2007 as well as trends for the ten-year period from 1999 through 2008. The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) collects information on nonfatal crimes, reported and not reported to the police, against …
News release: “The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) released the Pension Insurance Data Book 2008, which offers information on statistical trends related to defined benefit retirement plans in the private sector.”
