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FDIC Consumer News – Fall 2008 Special Edition: Your New, Higher FDIC Insurance Coverage How You Can Be Fully Protected Basic FDIC Insurance Coverage Temporarily Increased to At Least $250,000 Per Depositor: Other changes expand the protection of certain trust and checking accounts How to Be Sure You’re Fully Protected by the FDIC “EDIE” …
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys 2008 enforcement actions in California included enforcement actions to reduce water pollution, clean oil spills, improve local air quality; prosecute environmental violators, and much more…EPA enforcement actions against California companies will reduce more than 83.5 million pounds of pollution and clean up more than 100 million cubic yards …
News release: “The U.S. Department of Homeland Securitys (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate released the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) today, recommending Manhattan, Kan., as the preferred site for the state-of the-art, high-security laboratory facility to study foreign animal and zoonotic (transferable from animal to human) diseases …
AP: “A look at who has made the list and who is being talked about for jobs that are still open.” See also postings on the Obama transition
Seat at the Table Transparency Policy: “As an extension of the unprecedented ethics guidelines already in place for the Obama-Biden Transition Project, we take another significant step towards transparency of our efforts for the American people. Every day, we meet with organizations who present ideas for the Transition and the Administration, both orally and in …
Alternative proposals to provide $34 billion in loans to the automobile industry, December 5, 2008: “CBO estimates that the subsidy rate for bridge loans under standard credit reform accounting (following the requirements of FCRA) would be 50 percent. By comparison, we estimate a subsidy rate of 70 percent for providing such loans under TARP because …
Auto Industry: A Framework for Considering Federal Financial Assistance, GAO-09-247T, December 05, 2008: “From our previous work on federal financial assistance to large firms and municipalities, we have identified three fundamental principles that can serve as a framework for considering future assistance. These principles are (1) identifying and defining the problem, (2) determining the national …
Bureau of Justice Statistics: Capital Punishment, 2007 – Statistical Tables, Tracy L. Snell, BJS Statistician “Presents characteristics of persons under sentence of death on December 31, 2007, and persons executed in 2007. Tables present state-by-state information on the movement of prisoners into and out of death sentence status during 2007, status of capital statutes, and …
The Employment Situation: November 2008 – “Nonfarm payroll employment fell sharply (-533,000) in November, and the unemployment rate rose from 6.5 to 6.7 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. November’s drop in payroll employment followed declines of 403,000 in September and 320,000 in October, as revised. Job …
Senate Manual, 110th Congress – “Contains the rules, orders, laws, and resolutions affecting the business of the U.S. Senate; Jefferson’s Manual, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Constitution of the U.S., etc. 104th, 106th, 107th, and 110th Congress. (Note: There are no records of the 105th, 108th, and 109th Senate Manuals, and Congress has made …
Auto Industry: A Framework for Considering Federal Financial Assistance, GAO-09-242T, December 04, 2008: “From our previous work on federal financial assistance to large firms and municipalities, we have identified three fundamental principles that can serve as a framework for considering future assistance. These principles are (1) identifying and defining the problem, (2) determining the national …
OIG-09-10 – FY 2008 Audit of DHS’ Internal Control Over Financial Reporting (PDF, 8 pages) OIG-09-07 – DHS’ Efforts to Improve the Homeland Security Information Network (PDF, 26 pages)
