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Comptroller General Commends Treasury – OMB Citizen’s Guide, February 14, 2008: “The Department of the Treasury and the Office of Management and Budget today issued the first-ever Citizens Guide highlighting certain important short and long-term financial information in the 2007 Financial Report of the United States Government. The U.S. Government Accountability Office, which audits the …
Via ThinkProgress.org and Free Government Info: “Forbes has awarded EconomicIndicators.gov one of its Best of the Web awards. As Forbes explains, the government site provides an invaluable service to the public for accessing U.S. economic data: “This site is maintained by the Economics and Statistics Administration and combines data collected by the Bureau of Economic …
Department of Homeland Security FY 2009 Explanation of Changes – General Provisions (3574 pages, PDF). Includes U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Coast Guard.
“The Pentagon’s surplus program sells millions of dollars of excess military equipment to the public each year. It also moves extra supplies around within the federal government and gives surplus military gear such as weapons, armored personnel carriers and aircraft to state and local law enforcement agencies. Select a state for a list of military …
“This Registry of USG Recommended Biometric Standards (Registry) supplements the NSTC Policy for Enabling the Development, Adoption and Use of Biometric Standards. This Registry is based upon interagency consensus on biometric standards required to enable the interoperability of various Federal biometric applications, and to guide Federal agencies as they develop and implement related biometric programs. …
HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT (C00431569) JOHN MCCAIN 2008 INC. (C00430470) OBAMA FOR AMERICA (C00431445)
Summary Report of the 2007 Financial Report: A Citizen’s Guide to the 2007 Financial Report of the Government.
Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending, February 2008 (39 pages, PDF) This paper by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) examines the amount of and trends in geographic variation in health care spending, and the root causes of that variation. It also examines the relationship between spending and quality of care, and it discusses what those …
Tracking Housing Prices – Why the Numbers Conflict, By David Wessel, The Wall Street Journal Online. “Predicting how much worse the U.S. housing market will get is tough. The future is never certain. But when it comes to home prices, getting a clear picture of the recent past turns out to be surprisingly hard as …
Policy Options for Reducing CO2 Emissions, February 2008 (42 pages, PDF) “The most efficient approaches to reducing emissions of CO2 involve giving businesses and households an economic incentive for such reductions. Such an incentive could be provided in various ways, including a tax on emissions, a cap on the total annual level of emissions combined …
“USAspending.gov is pleased to announce the availability of its data in an Application Programming Interface (API). The API consists of two methods, fpds.php and faads.php, that allow access to the data to the Federal contracts and Federal assistance databases respectively. All data present on USAspending.gov is available through the API, except for pie charts and …
ACLU Blog: “…the Open Government Act of 2007, a bill that enjoyed broad bipartisan support in Congress…called for the appointment of a FOIA ombudsman, to work out of the National Archive, who would serve as an impartial mediator between citizens and the government agencies receiving their FOIA requests…Agencies would be held to the FOIA standards …
