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On October 19, 2007 the Joint Committee on Taxation issued Modeling The Federal Revenue Effects Of Proposed Changes In Cigarette Excise Taxes. (JCX-101-07)
October 19, 2007: Committee on Oversight and Government Reform “Chairman Waxman wrote to Erik Prince, Secretary Rice, and Secretary Gates, requesting further information on Blackwaters no-bid contracts, additional incidents involving their personnel in Iraq, and payments made to the families of Iraqis killed by Blackwater.” Letter to Blackwater CEO Erik Prince Letter to Secretary of …
Effectiveness of the Provincial Reconstruction Team Program in Iraq (SIGIR 07-016T), October 18, 2007, House Armed Services Committee – Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations “Description: SIGIR testifies on the release of its third audit of the Provincial Reconstruction Team Program, noting that progress has been made in certain geographic areas and in certain policy domains. …
Beginning Farmers: Additional Steps Needed to Demonstrate the Effectiveness of USDA Assistance GAO-07-1130, September 18, 2007 Digital Television Transition: Preliminary Information on Progress of the DTV Transition, GAO-08-191T, October 17, 2007 Intellectual Property: Risk and Enforcement Challenges, GAO-08-177T, October 18, 2007
“The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today announced a new interactive Web tool to serve as a resource for employers in complying with federal employee benefit laws. The ERISA Fiduciary Advisor is designed to help employers and others who provide services to private sector retirement plans understand their responsibilities. The advisor …
Press release: “A new report from the nation’s leading cancer organizations shows cancer death rates decreased on average 2.1 percent per year from 2002 through 2004, nearly twice the annual decrease of 1.1 percent per year from 1993 through 2002. The findings are in the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, …
Press release: “Access to state-level candidate campaign disclosure data continued to improve in states across the country, according to Grading State Disclosure 2007, a comprehensive evaluation of campaign finance disclosure laws and programs in the 50 states. The 2007 study, released today by the California Voter Foundation, found that Washington State ranks first in the …
OIG-07-78 – Agreed-upon Procredures on DHS’ 3rd Quarter Intragovernmental Activity and Balance (PDF, 11 pages), September 2007. OIG-07-77 – Evaluation of DHS’ Information Security Program for Fiscal Year 2007 (PDF, 41 pages), September 2007 OIG-07-76 – Audit of CBP Export Control Activities (PDF, 6 pages), September 2007
“The Arctic Report Card 2007 is introduced as a means of presenting clear, reliable and concise information on recent observations of environmental conditions in the Arctic, relative to historical time series records. It provides a method of updating and expanding the content of the State of the Arctic Report, published in fall 2006, to reflect …
Defense Business Transformation: A Full-time Chief Management Officer with a Term Appointment Is Needed at DOD to Maintain Continuity of Effort and Achieve Sustainable Success, GAO-08-132T, October 16, 2007 Medical Devices: FDA’s Approval of Four Temporomandibular Joint Implants, GAO-07-996, September 17, 2007 Project-Based Rental Assistance: HUD Should Streamline Its Processes to Ensure Timely Housing Assistance …
Hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on “Executive Nomination” Wednesday, October 17, 2007. See the “Continuation of Executive Nomination” Senate Judiciary Committee, October 18, 2007, via Live Webcast. Glenn Greenwald Live-blogging the Mukasey confirmation hearing Member Statements: Sen. Patrick Leahy and Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin Testimony, Judge Michael B. Mukasey
FCW.com: “Defense Department officials have released new guidelines that govern the monitoring of employees phone calls and the mock penetration of military network defenses to identify potential security risks to DOD information. DOD Chief Information Officer John Grimes on Oct. 9 signed Instruction 8560.01, titled Communications Security Monitoring and Information Assurance Readiness Testing. The document …
