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Next Stop for Oil Prices: $100 or $150? (06/30/2008): “This presentation provides an analysis of the various factors behind a six year, six-folding in oil prices and the market conditions likely to either accelerate that rise or result in a significant downturn.” June 2008 Natural Gas Monthly With Data for April 2008 (06/30/2008): “Natural and …
Report on Progress toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan, June 2008. Report to Congress in accordance with the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act (Section 1230, Public Law 110-181), Unclassified. “After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States and our international partners toppled the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, ending years of brutal misrule and …
United States Plan for Sustaining the Afghanistan National Security Forces, June 2008. Report to Congress in accordance with the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act (Section 1231, Public Law 110-181), Unclassified. “Developing the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), which includes both the Afghan National Army (ANA) and Afghan National Police (ANP), is one of the United …
Executive Order: Reforming Processes Related to Suitability for Government Employment, Fitness for Contractor Employees, and Eligibility for Access to Classified National Security Information, June 30, 3008.
Congressional Budget office: Recent Trends in the Variability of Individual Earnings and Household Income, June 2008: “This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) paper, prepared at the request of Senator Charles E. Schumer and Senator Jim Webb, uses administrative and survey data to examine year-to-year changes in individual earnings and household income since 1984. It also examines …
News release: “Some 96 million voted in the 2006 congressional elections, an increase of 7 million from 2002, according to a report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. About 48 percent of voting-age citizens cast a ballot in 2006, the highest since 1994 when the Census Bureau first began collecting this data. These data …
Electronic Payments: Many Programs Electronically Disburse Federal Benefits, and More Outreach Could Increase Use, GAO-08-645, June 23, 2008 Highlights of the Joint Forum on Tax Compliance: Options for Improvement and Their Budgetary Potential, GAO-08-703SP, June 30, 2008 Medicaid: CMS Needs More Information on the Billions of Dollars Spent on Supplemental Payments, GAO-08-614, May 30, 2008 …
FOIA Facts: My Proposals for the FOIA: Following up on the passage earlier this year of the OPEN Government Act of 2007, FOIA expert Scott A. Hodes make two proposals absent from the law, but which would help FOIA requesters. Published June 29, 2008 60 Gadgets in 60 Minutes – Three techie gurus (Barbara …
The United States Army in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, May 2003January 2005. ON POINT II: Transition to the New Campaign. Dr. Donald P. Wright, Colonel Timothy R. Reese with the Contemporary Operations Study Team, Combat Studies Institute Press, US Army Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Released June 29, 2008. [Note: this report is 720 pages, …
Inside Google Blog Search: “U.S. Copyright Office records. Records from 1978 onward are online but not downloadable in bulk. The Copyright Office hasn’t digitized their earlier records, but Carnegie Mellon scanned them as part of their Universal Library Project, and the tireless folks at Project Gutenberg and the Distributed Proofreaders painstakingly corrected the OCR. Thanks …
American Samoa: Issues Associated with Potential Changes to the Current System for Adjudicating Matters of Federal Law, GAO-08-655, June 27, 2008 Bureau of Indian Education Schools: Improving Interior’s Assistance Would Help Some Tribal Groups Implement Academic Accountability Systems, GAO-08-679, June 27, 2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Human Capital Planning Has Improved, but Strategic …
OIG, Social Security Administration, Benefit Payments in Instances Where the Social Security Administration Removed a Death Entry from the Beneficiary’s Record, A-06-07-27156, 06/19/08: “The DMF [Death Master File] is a publicly available database maintained by SSA that contains detailed information on more than 82 million deceased numberholders. Each year, SSA receives death reports for more …
