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Medicare and Medicaid: CMS and State Efforts to Interact with the Indian Health Service and Indian Tribes, GAO-08-724, July 11, 2008 DOD Business Systems Modernization: Key Navy Programs’ Compliance with DOD’s Federated Business Enterprise Architecture Needs to Be Adequately Demonstrated, GAO-08-972, August 07, 2008
CBO Testimony: Statement of Terry M. Dinan Senior Advisor – The Distributional Consequences of a Cap-and-Trade Program for CO2 Emissions before the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, U.S. House of Representatives, March 12, 2009. “One option for reducing emissions in a cost-effective manner is to establish a carefully designed cap-and-trade program. Under such …
Using Pricing to Reduce Traffic Congestion, March 2009 “Congestion costs highway users billions of dollars every year. Although policymakers have adopted a variety of strategies for reducing or mitigating congestion, relatively little attention has been paid to policies to promote more efficient use of the highway system. One such policy is congestion pricing, under which …
Clean Coal: DOE Should Prepare a Comprehensive Analysis of the Relative Costs, Benefits, and Risks of a Range of Options for FutureGen, GAO-09-465T, March 11, 2009 Clean Coal: DOE’s Decision to Restructure FutureGen Should Be Based on a Comprehensive Analysis of Costs, Benefits, and Risks, GAO-09-248, February 13, 2009 Forest Service: Emerging Issues Highlight the …
“The purpose of this hearing [was] to assess Treasurys oversight of the use of funds by financial institutions provided under the TARP. The hearing…evaluate[d] Treasurys data collection procedures for monitoring the use of TARP funds allocated under the Capital Purchase Program, the largest TARP program. The hearing…also examine[d] Treasurys ability to detect and prevent waste …
Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary: “Regional and state unemployment rates were nearly all higher in January. Forty-nine states and the District of Columbia recorded over-the-month unemployment rate increases, while all states and the District of Columbia had higher rates than a year earlier, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of …
OMB Memoranda: M-09-14, Recovery Act Implementation Improving Grants.gov and Other Critical Systems (March 9, 2009) “Effective implementation of the Recovery Act is a critical part of the effort to jumpstart economic activity and a top priority for the Administration. Central to carrying out the provisions of the Recovery Act with unprecedented levels of transparency …
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C. March 10, 2009, Financial Reform to Address Systemic Risk “The first element of my proposed reform agenda covers systemically important institutions considered individually. The second element focuses on interactions among firms as mediated by what I have called the financial infrastructure, or the …
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed the first comprehensive national system for reporting emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases produced by major sources in the United States…The new reporting requirements would apply to suppliers of fossil fuel and industrial chemicals, manufacturers of motor vehicles and engines, as well as large …
GSA Global Supply’s Direct Vendor Delivery Proposal Addresses Declining Office Product Sales, but Annual Reviews May Be Needed to Monitor Impact on Small Business Participation, GAO-09-230R, February 6, 2009 National Cybersecurity Strategy: Key Improvements Are Needed to Strengthen the Nation’s Posture, GAO-09-432T, March 10, 2009 Transportation Programs: Challenges Facing the Department of Transportation and Congress, …
OPEC Revenues Fact Sheet (03/10/2009): “Based on projections from the EIA March 2009 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) could earn $383 billion of net oil export revenues in 2009 and $503 billion in 2010. Last year, OPEC earned $970 billion in net oil export revenues, a …
Mother Jones: “By slipping a simple, three-sentence provision into the gargantuan spending bill passed by the House of Representatives last week, a congressman from Silicon Valley is trying to nudge Congress into the 21st Century. Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) placed a measure in the bill directing Congress and its affiliated organsincluding the Library of Congress …
