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Federal Rulemaking: Improvements Needed to Monitoring and Evaluation of Rules Development as Well as to the Transparency of OMB Regulatory Reviews, GAO-09-205, April 20, 2009 IRS Management: IRS Practices Contribute to Its Resilience, but It Would Benefit from Additional Emergency Planning Efforts, GAO-09-418, April 9, 2009
Follow up to GPO Access: Budget of the United States Government and The Presidents 2010 Budget, from OMB: “Today, we released the final volumes of the Presidents FY 2010 Budget. These volumes include the Summary Tables, which show aggregate budget projections for the next 10 years; Historical Tables, which offer a wealth of budget data …
“GovFresh is a live feed of official news from U.S. Government Twitter, YouTube, RSS, Facebook, Flickr accounts and more, all in one place.” See also White House Website Adds Links to FaceBook, Twitter, MySpace
A Borrower’s Guide to an FDIC Insured Bank Failure, May 5, 2009 – “Information for the borrowers whose loans are acquired in the bank failure process.” Related postings on financial system
09-P-0151 EPA Does Not Provide Oversight of Radon Testing Accuracy and Reliability, May 4, 2009 “EPA does not perform oversight of radon testing device accuracy or reliability. The 1988 Indoor Radon Abatement Act required that EPA establish proficiency programs for firms offering radon-related services, including testing and mitigation. EPA established and operated proficiency programs until …
Monthly Budget Review, May 2009 – Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for March and the Daily Treasury Statements for April: “The federal government incurred a deficit of close to $800 billion for the first seven months of fiscal year 2009, CBO estimates$646 billion more than the deficit recorded through April 2008. That estimate includes …
Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Documents A New Era of Responsibility: Renewing Americas Promise – “Provides a description of the Obama Administrations fiscal policies and major budgetary initiatives. This document is an overview of the full Fiscal Year 2010 Budget expected to be released this spring.” Appendix – “Contains detailed information on the various appropriations and …
Statutory Authorities to Prohibit Inspector General Activities, GAO-09-660R, May 08, 2009: “The IG Act provides specific protections intended to help ensure the independence of IG audits and investigations. For example, the IG Act prohibits an agency head from preventing an IG from initiating, carrying out, or completing any audit or investigation, or from issuing any …
Employment Situation Summary, April 2009: “Nonfarm payroll employment continued to decline in April (-539,000), and the unemployment rate rose from 8.5 to 8.9 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Since the recession began in December 2007, 5.7 million jobs have been lost. In April, job losses were …
Opportunity.gov – New Educational Opportunities for Unemployed Workers: “Americans with more education and training have more secure jobs and higher earnings. With jobs hard to find, it may be a good time to consider going back to school. The President recently announced that unemployed workers receiving unemployment benefits may qualify for a special hand in …
White House news release: “The Presidents 2010 Budget seeks to usher in a new era of responsibility an era in which we not only do what we must to save and create new jobs and lift our economy out of recession, but in which we also lay a new foundation for long-term growth and …
News release: “The results of a comprehensive, forward-looking assessment of the financial conditions of the nation’s 19 largest bank holding companies (BHCs) by the federal bank supervisory agencies were released on Thursday. The exercise–conducted by the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation–was conducted so that …
