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News release: “The crisis of the past 18 months has exposed critical gaps and weaknesses in our financial regulatory system. As risks built up, internal risk management systems, rating agencies and regulators simply did not understand or address critical behaviors until they had already resulted in catastrophic losses. These failures have caused a dramatic loss …
“Last month, the Government Accountability Office released a report titled, Excluded Parties List System: Suspended and Debarred Businesses and Individuals Improperly Receive Federal Funds, documenting 25 cases in which companies and individuals that had been suspended or debarred from federal contracting continued to receive contracts. Unfortunately, the report did not name the companies and individuals …
News release: “Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Monday called for new legislation granting additional tools to address systemically significant financial institutions that fall outside of the existing resolution regime under the FDIC. A draft bill will be sent to Congress this week…The legislative proposal would fill a significant void in the current financial services regulatory …
EPA Needs to Improve Its Efforts to Reduce Air Emissions at U.S. Ports, [Report PDF – 86pp] [At a Glance PDF] “While EPA has issued air emissions regulations for most port sources, EPAs actions to address air emissions from large oceangoing vessels in U.S. ports have not yet achieved the goals for protecting human health. …
Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers Shipments, Inventories and Orders, February 2009 “New orders for manufactured durable goods in February increased $5.5 billion or 3.4 percent to $165.6 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau announced today. This increase follows six consecutive monthly decreases, including a 7.3 percent January decrease. Excluding transportation, new orders increased 3.9 percent. …
News release: “The nations Asian, Native Hawaiian, and other Pacific Islander population had the lowest rates of violent and property victimizations among all racial and ethnic groups between 2002 and 2006, according to a study released today by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Asians, …
Defense Management: Actions Needed to Address Stakeholder Concerns, Improve Interagency Collaboration, and Determine Full Costs Associated with the U.S. Africa Command, GAO-09-181, February 20, 2009 Department of Defense: Additional Actions and Data Are Needed to Effectively Manage and Oversee DOD’s Acquisition Workforce, GAO-09-342, March 25, 2009 Federal Land Management: Additional Documentation of Agency Experiences with …
Military Power of the Peoples Republic of China – A Report to Congress Pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act Fiscal Year 2000 “Chinas rapid rise as a regional political and economic power with growing global influence has significant implications for the Asia-Pacific region and the world. The United States welcomes the rise of a …
Pursue Prevent Protect Prepare – The United Kingdoms Strategy for Countering International Terrorism, March 2009. Presented to Parliament by the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for the Home Department by Command of Her Majesty. “It sets out our comprehensive approach for tackling international terrorism from the international, through the national, to the …
“The automatic declassification provisions of Executive Order 12958, as amended, require the declassification of nonexempt historically-valuable records 25 years old or older. By 31 December 2006 all agencies were to have completed the review of all hardcopy documents determined to be historically valuable (designated as “permanent” by the agency and the National Archives) and exclusively …
Private Health Insurance: 2008 Survey Results on Number and Market Share of Carriers in the Small Group Health Insurance Market, GAO-09-363R, February 27, 2009 Private Pensions: Conflicts of Interest Can Affect Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Plans, GAO-09-503T, March 24, 2009 Social Security Administration: Further Actions Needed to Address Disability Claims and Service Delivery Challenges, …
News release: “The United States Environmental Protection Agency has sent two letters to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expressing serious concerns about the need to reduce the potential harmful impacts on water quality caused by certain types of coal mining practices, such as mountaintop mining. The letters specifically addressed two new surface coal mining …
