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Department of Defense, 2008 National Defense Strategy: “The NDS describes our overarching goals and strategy. It outlines how DoD will support the objectives outlined in the NSS, including the need to strengthen alliances and build new partnerships to defeat global terrorism and prevent attacks against us, our allies, and our friends; prevent our enemies from …
News release: “Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox and U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao today agreed to make permanent their agencies’ longstanding relationship of sharing information on retirement and investments to protect the $5.8 trillion in retirement assets of American workers, retirees and their families held in employee benefit plans by signing …
News release: “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released today the National Emergency Communications Plan (NECP) to address gaps and determine solutions so that emergency response personnel at all levels of government and across all disciplines can communicate as needed, on demand, and as authorized. The NECP is the nation’s first strategic plan to …
African American Children in Foster Care: HHS and Congressional Actions Could Help Reduce Proportion in Care, GAO-08-1064T, July 31, 2008 Airline Industry: Potential Mergers and Acquisitions Driven by Financial and Competitive Pressures, GAO-08-845, July 31, 2008 Ballistic Missile Defense: Actions Needed to Improve Process for Identifying and Addressing Combatant Command Priorities, GAO-08-740, July 31, 2008 …
News release: “The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted unanimously to provide new guidance to public companies about how to comply with the securities laws while developing their Web sites to serve as an effective means for disseminating important information to investors.” Speech by SEC Staff: Commission Guidance on the Use of Company Web Sites …
“Congressman John P. Murtha, Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, announced today that the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense has marked-up the Fiscal Year 2009 Defense Appropriations Bill. The $487.7 billion bill is $4 billion below the Presidents budget request and $28.4 billion above the Fiscal Year 2008 enacted level.”
Follow up to Committee Investigates Accidental Electrocutions of Soldiers in Iraq, today the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing titled, Deficient Electrical Systems at U.S. Facilities in Iraq. The hearing examined electrical problems leading to the injuries and deaths of military personnel and the Department of Defenses management and oversight of contractors. …
Follow up to Senate Passes American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008, from the White House July 30, 2008 as the President signed the bill: “The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, which authorizes the Department of the Treasury to purchase obligations of housing Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs); reforms the regulatory supervision …
Post-Government Employment Restrictions and Foreign Agent Registration: Additional Action Needed to Enhance Implementation of Requirements, GAO-08-855, July 30, 2008 Examples of Job Hopping by Commercial Drivers After Failing Drug Tests, GAO-08-829R, June 30, 2008 Veterans Affairs: Health Information System Modernization Far from Complete; Improved Project Planning and Oversight Needed, GAO-08-805, June 30, 2008 Food Stamp …
Follow up to July 28, 2008 Investigation of Allegations of Politicized Hiring by Monica Goodling and Other Staff in the Office of the Attorney General, the Statement of Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Hearing concerning Politicized Hiring at the Department of Justice, July 30, …
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): “NRDC’s annual survey of water quality and public notification at U.S. beaches finds that pollution caused the number of beach closings and advisories to hit their second-highest level in the 18-year history of the report. The number of 2007 closing and advisory days at ocean, bay, and Great Lakes beaches …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission today announced the results of a study on food marketing to children and adolescents. The report, Marketing Food to Children and Adolescents: A Review of Industry Expenditures, Activities, and Self-Regulation [see also Appendices A-F], finds that 44 major food and beverage marketers spent $1.6 billion to promote their products …
