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Congressional Budget Office: The Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans:Detailed Update for Fiscal Year 2008 – All Funding in Billions of 2008 Dollars “This presentation updates the analysis of current defense plans contained in the Congressional Budget Offices (CBOs) April 2007 Web document The Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans: Detailed Update for Fiscal Year …
The Nation’s Long-Term Fiscal Outlook: January 2008 Update, GAO-08-591R, March 21, 2008: “Our updated simulations continue to illustrate that the long-term fiscal outlook is unsustainable. Despite a 3-year decline in the unified budget deficit, the federal government still faces large and growing structural deficits driven primarily by rising health care costs and known demographic trends. …
Department of the Treasury – Report to Congress on Financial Implications of U.S. Participation in the International Monetary Fund, March 21, 2008.
Shining a light on fluorescent bulbs – Energy-efficient coils booming, but disposal of mercury poses problems. By Alex Johnson, MSNBC: “Compact fluorescent light bulbs, long touted by environmentalists as a more efficient and longer-lasting alternative to the incandescent bulbs that have lighted homes for more than a century, are running into resistance from waste industry …
OIG-08-30 – Annual Review of Mission Performance United States Coast Guard (FY 2006) (PDF, 37 pages) OIG-08-29 – The DHS Process for Nominating Individuals to the Consolidated Terrorist Watchlist (PDF, 26 pages) OIG-08-28 – The State of Ohio’s Management of State Homeland Security Grants Awarded During Fiscal Years 2002 through 2004 (PDF, 47 pages) DA-08-05 …
“The Commission has authorized the staff to release publicly the 30th Annual Report to Congress on the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). This report…summarizes the Commissions administration and enforcement of the FDCPA during 2007. It presents an overview of the types of consumer complaints received by the Commission, descriptions of the Commissions debt-collection law …
President Bush Discusses Global War on Terror, The Pentagon, March 19, 2008. Fact Sheet: Five Years Later: New Strategy Improving Security In Iraq, March 19, 2008
NARA’s Federal Records Centers Offer Agencies Storage, Easy Use for 80 Billion Pages of Documents. By Tara E. C. McLoughlin “Through its nationwide network of 17 facilities with more than 1,100 federal employees, the centers serve 400 federal agencies. FRCs [Federal Records Centers] store and service every kind of federal recordtax returns, claims files for …
“The Prime Minister has set out the Government’s approach to dealing with threats to national security, ranging from war and terrorism to climate change, disease and poverty. Speaking to MP’s in the House of Commons earlier today, Mr Brown said that the nature of the threats faced by the British people has changed “beyond all …
Background Checks for Firearm Transfers, 2006 – Statistical Tables [see also PDF version]: “This web page describes background checks for firearm transfers conducted in 2006. The statistical tables below provide the number of applications checked by state points of contact and local agencies; the number of applications denied and the reasons for denial; and estimates …
An Analysis of the President’s Budgetary Proposals for Fiscal Year 2009 (74 pages, PDF) The Long-Term Budgetary Effects of Three Specified Policy Scenarios, March 14, 2008 CBO Testimony: Statement of Eric J. Labs, Senior Analyst, Current and Projected Navy Shipbuilding Programs before the Subcommittee on Seapower and Expeditionary Forces Committee on Armed Services, U.S. House …
News release: “The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today released new data on high-speed connections to the Internet in the United States. Twice a year, all facilities-based broadband providers are required to report to the Commission basic information about their service offerings and types of customers pursuant to the FCCs local telephone competition and broadband data …
