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Press release: “The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)…announced the publication of a final rule allowing employers that provide retiree health benefits to continue the longstanding practice of coordinating those benefits with Medicare (or comparable state health benefits) without violating the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). The regulation, which safeguards retiree health benefits, was …
Press release: “Citizens are less satisfied with federal government services than they are with private sector services, according to the annual federal government report from the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) released [December 18, 2007]. In aggregate, citizen satisfaction with the federal government is 67.8 on ACSIs 100-point scale, 11 percent lower than the National …
2007 Combined Statement of Receipts, Outlays, and Balances of the United States Government: “This statement presents budget results and the cash-related assets and liabilities of the Federal Government with supporting details. The financial results for the year include total receipts of $2,567.7 billion, an increase of $161.0 billion over 2006 receipts; total outlays of $2,730.5 …
GAO-08-381CG, Partnering for Progress–Working Together to Strengthen Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) – David M. Walker Head of the GAO Comptroller General of the United States Vice-Chairman, INTOSAI Finance and Administration Committee and Dr. Ahmed El-Midaoui Premier President, Court of Accounts of Morocco, Chairman, INTOSAI Capacity Building Committee. 9th Meeting of the Joint Venture on Public …
Press release, December 20, 2007: “Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez today welcomed the final report of the Deemed Export Advisory Committee, a distinguished group of Americans commissioned by the Secretary in September 2006 to examine the complex issue of deemed exports. Deemed exports are the transfer of sensitive dual-use technology to foreign nationals working …
Natural Disasters: Public Policy Options for Changing the Federal Role in Natural Catastrophe Insurance, GAO-08-7, November 26, 2007 Defense Acquisitions: Status of the Expeditionary Fire Support System, GAO-08-331R, December 21, 2007
Des Moines Register Iowa Caucus Coverage, including an interactive graphic of How the Caucuses Work: Find candidate bios, the latest news, analysis, events, photos, videos, blogs, caucus history, candidate visits map, top Iowa caucuses links, latest Iowa poll results, FEC – money raised from Iowa donors, campaign cartoons.
OIG-08-17 – Independent Auditor’s Report on DHS’ FY 2007 Special-Purpose Financial Statements, November 2007 (PDF, 171 pages). See also OIG-08-13 – FY 2007 Audit of DHS’ Internal Control Over Financial Reporting, November 2007 (PDF, 7 pages)
Rand Corporation – Developing Robust Border Security Technologies to Protect Against Diverse and Adaptive Threats: Addendum – December 24, 2007 – Brian Jackson. Document submitted on December 17, 2007 as an addendum to testimony before the House Science and Technology Committee, Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation on November 15, 2007.
Press release: “The Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State, released…a retrospective intelligence volume in the Foreign Relations of the United States series, documenting the development and consolidation of the intelligence community. This volume, The Intelligence Community, 19501955 (867 pages, PDF), is the sequel to The Emergence of the Intelligence …
“The International Macroeconomic Data Set provides data from 1969 through 2017 for real (adjusted for inflation) gross domestic product (GDP), population, real exchange rates, and other variables for the 190 countries and 34 regions that are most important for U.S. agricultural trade. The data presented here are a key component of the USDA Baseline projections …
Federal Enterprise Architecture Program, EA Assessment Framework 2.2, October 2007 “Version 2.2 of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Enterprise Architecture Assessment Framework is designed to advance the use of enterprise architecture (EA) across the Federal government. This document serves as the basis for enterprise architecture maturity assessments of Federal agencies performed by OMB. …
