Accurate, Focused Research on Law, Technology and Knowledge Discovery With Daily Postings Since 2002
Progress Report of Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting, February 14, 2008 (11 pages, PDF). “This executive overview highlights the key themes that tie together the chapters in this progress report, with a few examples to illustrate each theme. The main themes are: 1. Increasing emphasis on the investor perspective in the financial reporting …
Press release: Statement by Dr. Julie Gerberding, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released today preliminary results from recent testing that found higher than typical indoor exposure levels of formaldehyde in travel trailers and mobile …
DOD Personnel Clearances: DOD Faces Multiple Challenges in Its Efforts to Improve Clearance Processes for Industry Personnel, GAO-08-470T, February 13, 2008 – “The Department of Defense (DOD) maintains approximately 2.5 million security clearances on servicemembers, federal DOD civilian employees, industry personnel for DOD and 23 other federal agencies, and employees in the legislative branch. Delays …
Fact Sheet: Examples of How the Economic Growth Act of 2008 [H.R. 5109] will Benefit Americans, February 13, 2008
The Commission today set out its vision [Word doc] of how to develop the EU’s external border management system. These consist of a mix of concrete measures (on the FRONTEX Agency and on control of maritime borders) and longer term reflections on ways of recording entry and exit of third country nationals. This approach will …
Domestic Uranium Production Report – Quarterly (02/13/2008): “Fourth quarter 2007 update, preliminary 2007 uranium production total, and operating status of U.S. uranium mills and in-situ-leach plants.” Electric Power Monthly (02/12/2008): “The latest EPM issue (February 2008) is now available on EIA’s Electricity page. Data being published in the February 2008 EPM include November 2007 data. …
D-2008-050 Report on FY 2006 DoD Purchases Made Through the Department of the Treasury, February 11, 2008 (50 pages, PDF) (Project No. D2007-D000CF-0034.000)
Press release: “The Federal Trade Commission today told the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging that the Commission, partnering with other federal agencies and state and local governments, is working to prevent mortgage foreclosure rescue fraud through law enforcement and consumer outreach. Noting an estimated 75 percent increase in foreclosure filings from 2006 to 2007, …
Press release: “The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI) fell 1.3 percent in December from its November level turning down after two monthly increases in the largest monthly decline since November 2006, the U.S. Department of Transportations Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today (Table 1).” The freight transportation index consists of: For-hire trucking, Railroad freight …
“The FTC today released the list of top consumer fraud complaints received by the agency in 2007. The list, contained in the publication Consumer Fraud and Identity Theft Complaint Data January-December 2007, showed that for the seventh year in a row, identity theft is the number one consumer complaint category. Of 813,899 total complaints received …
Press release: “The brown pelican, a species battered by more than a century of threats including widespread poaching and the pesticide DDT, is back from the brink. During a special event held in Louisiana, also known as “the pelican state” and a major contributer to the bird’s recovery, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne announced …
Measuring the Quality of Office of Inspector General Reports Issued in Fiscal Year 2007, February 12, 2008: “The purpose of this annual quality assurance review is to report on the set of criteria the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) used to measure quality in the audit and evaluation …
