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News release: “The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision are expanding the scope of the mortgage performance data gathered from national banks and thrifts to include additional information on the affordability and sustainability of loan modifications. The additional data will show how loan modifications changed the total amount …
See this White House webpage which in turn links to the final version, published in the Congressional Record version (PDF) – The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, inclusive of an online “form on the right to leave your comments, thoughts, and ideas.” Required data: email address and name. Comments are limited to 5,000 …
Closing Guantanamo, Greg Bruno, Staff Writer, February 12, 2009. Council on Foreign Relations Introduction The Guantanamo Inmates: Who Are They? The Guantanamo Inmates: How to Try Them The Guantanamo Inmates: Where to Send Them Constitutional and Other Considerations See also The Guantánamo Docket – The Detainees: “Of the 779 people who have been detained at …
OIG-09-15 – Removals Involving Illegal Alien Parents of United States Citizen Children (PDF, 23 pages): “This report addresses the number of instances over the past 10 years in which the illegal alien parent of a United States citizen child was removed from the country. It is based on interviews with employees and officials of relevant …
Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act (as required by Section 1001(3) of Public Law 107-56), Special Report, February 2009, Office of the Inspector General.
“The mission of the Securities and Exchange Commission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation. During the current turmoil in the credit markets, the SEC has worked closely with the Department of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and other regulators in the U.S. and around the world to …
EU: Unemployment, working poor and vulnerable employment to increase dramatically due to global economic crisis. Global Employment Trends January 2009, International Labour Organization: “The global financial crisis has triggered a serious slowdown in world economic growth including recession in the largest industrialized countries. Enterprises have stopped hiring and many are laying off workers in considerable …
The Stimulus Plan: A Detailed List of Spending by Michael Grabell and Christopher Weaver, ProPublica: “The appropriations section of the bill details spending in excess of $311 billion for programs ranging from Pell grants for college students to clean water in central Utah to nearly $100 billion in new transportation and infrastructure projects. Heres our …
Welcome to the White House, President George W. Bush: “This is historical material, “frozen in time.” The web site is no longer updated and links to external web sites and some internal pages will not work.” [Note: this site is a useful resource for research associated with primary government documents generated during thetwo terms of …
Aviation Security: Federal Air Marshal Service Has Taken Actions to Fulfill Its Core Mission and Address Workforce Issues, but Additional Actions Are Needed to Improve Workforce Survey, GAO-09-273, January 14, 2009. “Because the number of air marshals is less than the number of daily flights, FAMSs operational approach is to assign air marshals to selected …
News release: “Federal Trade Commission staff…issued a report describing its ongoing examination of online behavioral advertising and setting forth revisions to proposed principles to govern self-regulatory efforts in this area. The key issue concerns how online advertisers can best protect consumers privacy while collecting information about their online activities…The report discusses the potential benefits of …
Free WSJ chart: Where the Money Goes | Selected programs from the $789.2 billion bill: Spending – 24% | Aid 38% | Tax Cuts 38% Related postings on H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Related postings on financial system
