CBO Report – Crew Rotation in the Navy: The Long-Term Effect on Forward Presence
CBO Report – Crew Rotation in the Navy: The Long-Term Effect on Forward Presence, October 2007, (28 pages, PDF)
Category «E-Government»
Key Privacy Groups Propose Do Not Track List
Press release: “CDT joined with a coalition of privacy advocates on Wednesday to recommend an ambitious set of proposals intended to give consumers greater control over their personal data and to offset the impact of pervasive behavioral tracking. Included in the recommendations is a call to create a national “Do Not Track List” that would …
FEC approves a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Reporting Contributions Bundled by Lobbyists, Registrants and their PACs
Press release: “At its open meeting today, the Federal Election Commission (FEC/ the Commission) unanimously approved a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on Reporting Contributions Bundled by Lobbyists, Registrants and the PACs of Lobbyists and Registrants. The proposed rules implement section 204 of the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 (HLOGA). The Commission …
New GAO Reports: Intellectual Property, Maritime Security, Minority Banks, Private Pensions
Intellectual Property: U.S. Trade Policy Guidance on WTO Declaration on Access to Medicines May Need Clarification, GAO-07-1198, September 28, 2007 Maritime Security: The SAFE Port Act: Status and Implementation One Year Later, GAO-08-126T, October 30, 2007 Minority Banks: Regulators’ Assessments of the Effectiveness of Their Support Efforts Have Been Limited, GAO-08-233T, October 30, 2007 Private …
House Passes CJ's Home Protection Act of 2007
“H.R. 2787, CJ’s Home Protection Act of 2007 would amend the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 to require that weather radios be installed in all manufactured homes manufactured or sold in the United States.”
Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted, 2006
“The FBI publishes Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted each year to provide information about the officers who were killed, feloniously or accidentally, and those officers who were assaulted while performing their duties. The FBI collects these data through the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program.”
New GAO Reports: 2010 Census, International Trade, Prescription Drugs
2010 Census: Population Measures Are Important for Federal Funding Allocations, GAO-08-230T, October 29, 2007 End-Stage Renal Disease: Characteristics of Kidney Transplant Recipients, Frequency of Transplant Failures, and Cost to Medicare, GAO-07-1117, September 28, 2007 International Trade: An Overview of Use of U.S. Trade Preference Programs by Beneficiaries and U.S. Administrative Reviews, GAO-07-1209, September 27, 2007 …
Guidance on National Intelligence Estimate Key Judgments
Office of Director of National Intelligence, Guidance on National Intelligence Estimate Key Judgments, October 29, 2007. Washington Post, Walter Pincus: “The director of national intelligence will disclose today that national intelligence activities amounting to roughly 80 percent of all U.S. intelligence spending for the year cost more than $40 billion, according to sources on Capitol …
Presidential Determination No. 2008-3 of October 16, 2007
“Provision of U.S. Drug Interdiction Assistance to the Government of Brazil – Memorandum for the Secretary of State [and] the Secretary of Defense Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 1012 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995, as amended (22 U.S.C. 2291-4), I hereby certify, with respect to Brazil, …
Report Prioritizes Programs of DOE Office of Nuclear Energy
Press release: “The research and development component of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), a program that aims to reprocess spent nuclear fuel which could then be shared with partner countries, should not go forward at its current pace, says a new report from the National Research Council. DOE’s Office of …
FTC Releases Consumer Fraud Survey
Press release: “The Federal Trade Commission today released a statistical survey of fraud in the United States that shows that 30.2 million adults 13.5 percent of the adult population were victims of fraud during the year studied. More people an estimated 4.8 million U.S. consumers were victims of fraudulent weight-loss products …
Websites from Government and E-Commerce Sectors Offer Services for Disabled
“DisabilityInfo.gov [celebrating 5th anniversary] is the federal government’s one-stop Web site for people with disabilities, their families, employers, veterans and service members, workforce professionals and many others. A collaborative effort among twenty-two federal agencies, DisabilityInfo.gov connects people with disabilities to the information and resources they need to a.ctively participate in the workforce and in their …
