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DOJ OIG: The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Security Check Procedures for Immigration Applications and Petitions (Redacted for Public Release), Audit Report 08-24, June 2008. “According to the FBI, IAFIS [the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification Solution] maintains the largest biometric database in the world, containing the fingerprints and corresponding criminal history for more than 50 million …
Climate Change: Expert Opinion on the Economics of Policy Options to Address Climate Change, GAO-08-605, May 09, 2008: “Elevated levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the resulting effects on the earth’s climate could have significant environmental and economic impacts in the United States and internationally. Potential impacts include rising sea levels and a …
“Chairman Waxman and Ranking Member Davis issued a proposed Committee report on White House contacts with Jack Abramoff that concludes that Mr. Abramoff had personal contact with President Bush, that high-level White House officials held Mr. Abramoff and his associates in high regard and solicited recommendations from them on policy matters, that Mr. Abramoff and …
Federal Housing Finance Regulatory Reform Act of 2008 June 9, 2008: Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on May 20, 2008. “This legislation would make a number of changes in federal housing policy…[It would] establish a single regulatorthe Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) …
News release: “According to the FBI’s Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report released today, the nation experienced a 1.4 percent decrease in the number of violent crimes and a 2.1 percent decline in the number of property crimes for 2007 compared with data from 2006. The report is based on information that the FBI gathered from …
Text of the Committee Report to Accompany the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, H.R. 6063, Science & Technology Committee Report: 110-702 (191 pages, PDF) Text of the Bill as Ordered Reported H.R. 6063, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2008, June 6, 2008 – Cost estimate for the bill as ordered …
Robinson, David, Yu, Harlan, Zeller, William P and Felten, Edward W, Government Data and the Invisible Hand (2008). Yale Journal of Law & Technology, Vol. 11, 2008 – draft version, via SSRN. Abstract: “If the next Presidential administration really wants to embrace the potential of Internet-enabled government transparency, it should follow a counter-intuitive but ultimately …
White House: National Security Presidential Directive 59 and Homeland Security Presidential Directive 24, June 5, 2008 “This directive establishes a framework to ensure that Federal executive departments and agencies (agencies) use mutually compatible methods and procedures in the collection, storage, use, analysis, and sharing of biometric and associated biographic and contextual information of individuals in …
News release: “Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo [June 5, 2008] announced that he has reached landmark agreements with the nations three principal credit rating agencies that will fundamentally reform the Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) market. The agreements with Standard & Poors (S&P) Moodys Investors Service, Inc. (Moodys), and Fitch, Inc. (Fitch) will dramatically increase the …
Bureau of Justice Statistics news release: “The growth in the number of prisoners under state or federal jurisdiction slowed during the first six months of 2007, the Justice Departments Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported today. The number of prisoners rose 1.6 percent, which was lower than the 2.0 percent growth during the same period …
News release: “The unemployment rate rose from 5.0 to 5.5 percent in May, and nonfarm payroll employment continued to trend down (-49,000), the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. In May, employment continued to fall in construction, manufacturing, retail trade, and temporary help services, while health care continued to …
Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, Office of Federal Procurement Policy (70 pages, PDF) – Improving the Management and Use of Interagency Acquisitions, June 6, 2008: “This document provides guidance to help agencies (1) make sound business decisions to support the use of interagency acquisitions and (2) strengthen the management of …
