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Key Facts about Swine Influenza (Swine Flu): “Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza virus that regularly causes outbreaks of influenza in pigs. Swine flu viruses cause high levels of illness and low death rates in pigs. Swine influenza viruses may circulate among swine throughout the year, …
Background Paper: How CBO Estimates the Costs of Reducing Greenhouse-Gas Emissions, April 2009 “Households and businesses in a modern industrial economy like that of the United States emit a number of different greenhouse gases through a wide variety of activitiesany or all of which might be regulated under a mitigation program. The Environmental Protection Agency …
News release: “he Financial Stability Oversight Board (Oversight Board) today issued its second quarterly report to Congress on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA). The report covers the period January 1 to March 31, 2009. The report highlights the oversight activities of the Oversight Board during the quarterly period. It also presents the Oversight Board’s …
WSJ: The government confirmed the following list of the 19 banks undergoing stress tests. WSJ: “The U.S. government may end up acquiring a significant ownership stake in banks as it works to stabilize the financial system, according to a draft report from top regulators — the starkest acknowledgment yet of the extent to which the …
Federal Reserve Board: “A white paper describing the process and methodologies employed by the federal banking supervisory agencies in their forward-looking capital assessment of large U.S. bank holding companies was published on Friday. The white paper is intended to assist analysts and other interested members of the public in understanding the results of the Supervisory …
News release: “The Federal Reserve System on [April 23, 2009] published the annual financial statements for the combined Federal Reserve Banks, the 12 individual Federal Reserve Banks, the limited liability companies (LLCs) that were created in 2008 to respond to strains in financial markets, and the Board of Governors for the years ended December 31, …
News release: ” Employers took 2,933 mass layoff actions in March that resulted in the separation of 299,388 workers, seasonally adjusted, as measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits during the month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Each action involved at least 50 persons from a …
Public Printer of the United States: “I am pleased to announce the launch of FDsys, GPO’s new Federal Digital System, an innovative tool to enable Americans and people worldwide to search and access the documents of the U.S. government. FDsys is an one-stop site on which to find current, authentic, published information from all three …
Aviation Safety: Potential Strategies to Address Air Ambulance Safety Concerns, GAO-09-627T, April 22, 2009 Coast Guard: Update on Deepwater Program Management, Cost, and Acquisition Workforce, GAO-09-620T, April 22, 2009 Feasibility of Requiring Financial Assurances for the Recall or Destruction of Unsafe Consumer Products, GAO-09-512R, April 22, 2009 Homeland Defense: Actions Needed to Address Management of …
News release: “The Federal Reserve Board, the Office of Thrift Supervision, and the National Credit Union Administration today proposed clarifications to aspects of their December 2008 final rules under the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTC Act) prohibiting certain unfair credit card practices. The Federal Reserve Board also proposed clarifications to its December 2008 final rule …
News release: “Today, in an Earth Day speech at a wind turbine tower manufacturing plant, President Barack Obama announced that the Department of the Interior has finalized a long-awaited framework for renewable energy production on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). The framework establishes a program to grant leases, easements, and rights-of-way for orderly, safe, …
Prepared by the Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation: Tax Expenditures for Energy Production and Conservation, Scheduled for a Public Hearing Before the Senate Committee on Finance, April 23, 2009. “The Senate Committee on Finance has scheduled a public hearing on April 23, 2009, titled Technology Neutrality in Energy Tax: Issues and Options. Since …
