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Preliminary Annual Report on U.S. Holding of Foreign Securities, August 29, 2008. “Preliminary data from an annual survey of U.S. portfolio holdings of foreign securities at year-end 2007 are released today and posted on the U.S. Treasury web site at here (209 pages, PDF). Final survey results, which will include additional detail as well as …
Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG): Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (ISP-I-08-34) Aug 2008 [208 pages, Sensitive but Unclassified] “The Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) successfully completed 54 new embassy compounds (NEC) and annex office buildings under the Construction Security Program, placing …
News release: “Senator Charles E. Schumer and Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairman and Vice-Chair of the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) released statements in reaction to troubling new data from the U.S. Census Bureau on household incomes, health care coverage, and poverty. While wages have risen slightly from 2006 to 2007 and fewer families are without …
News release: “Department of Justice is revising its corporate charging guidelines for federal prosecutors throughout the country. The new guidance revises the Departments Principles of Federal Prosecution of Business Organizations, which govern how all federal prosecutors investigate, charge, and prosecute corporate crimes. The new guidelines address issues that have been of great interest to prosecutors …
Realizing the Global Promise of the Internet: The Future of Internet Governance, Constance Ledoux Book, Janna Quitney Anderson, Michele Hammerbacher, Anne Nicholson, Dannika Lewis, Eryn Gradwell, August 13, 2008.
U.S. Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District – Hurricane Protection System Improvements: “This page contains a computer animated overview and specific information about improvements that USACE is making to the Southern Louisiana Hurricane Protection System (HPS).” Related postings on Katrina
U.S. Courts: “In the 12-month period ending June 30, 2008, there were 967,831 bankruptcy cases filed, according to statistics released today by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. That is a 28.9 percent increase compared to filings for the 12-month period ending June 30, 2007, when cases totaled 751,056. Historic data on bankruptcy filings …
GPO Access: “To browse the current catalog of Congressional Committee Prints – available from 110th Congress, 1st Session (2007-2008) forward, click here. Links are included with each Congressional Committee print listed in the catalog, which retrieve the text of the corresponding document as an ASCII text or PDF file.”
Great .gov Web sites, by Joab Jackson: “These 10 sites show agencies putting the power of the Web to work. Government agencies are finally catching on to the World Wide Web. Ten years ago, most government executives saw the Web as a sort of electronic brochure. Now they have come to realize that the Web …
Brookings Governance Studies: Improving Technology Utilization in Electronic Government around the World, 2008 – Darrell M. West “This report reviews the current condition of electronic government and makes practical suggestions for improving the delivery of information and services over the Internet. Using a detailed analysis of 1,667 national government websites in 198 nations around the …
USA.gov: “The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) issued e-mail archiving applications guidance July 31 for certain e-mails that are considered records under the Federal Records Act. The bulletin informs agencies that e-mail archiving technologies may not necessarily meet all of the Federal Records Act requirements.”
Recent Trends in Home Prices: Differences across Mortgage and Borrower Characteristics, August 2008 – “This Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) research paper analyzes differences in recent price trends for homes with different types of financing and borrower characteristics. The work follows preliminary research published in January that uncovered relative price weakness for homes …
