Presidents Working Group on Financial Markets Releases Terrorism Risk Insurance Report
PWG Report on Terrorism Risk Insurance, September 2006.
Category «E-Government»
Census Reports Half of U.S. Businesses Are Home-Based
Press release, September 27, 2006: “Almost half (49 percent) of the nations businesses are operated from home, and more than 6-in-10 owners used their own money to start the business, according to new U.S. Census Bureau reports on characteristics of businesses and business owners.” Detailed tables
GAO Report, Human Capital: Trends in Executive and Judicial Pay
Human Capital: Trends in Executive and Judicial Pay Suggest a Reexamination of the Total Compensation Package, Full-text GAO-06-1116T, and Highlights, September 20, 2006. “People are critical to the success of the federal government’s overall transformation effort. Yet the government has not transformed, in many cases for decades, how it classifies, compensates, develops, and motivates its …
ICANN Joint Project Agreement: With Commerce
Press Release, September 29, 2006: “The Commerce Department announced it has signed a Joint Project Agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to continue the transition of the coordination of the technical functions relating to the management of the Internet Domain Name and Addressing System to the private sector.” Joint Project …
Hearing on Hezbollahs Global Reach
House Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation and the Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia, joint hearing, September 28. 2006: Hezbollah’s Global Reach. Statements (PDF): The Honorable Edward R. Royce, The Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Mr. Frank C. Urbancic, Jr., Mr. John Kavanagh, Eitan Azani, Ph.D., Mr. Christopher Hamilton, Mr. …
DOD IG Audit of Internal Control Issues
D-2006-123 Program Management of the Objective Individual Combat Weapon Increment I (09/29/2006) View Summary Only (Project D2006-D000AE-0154.000) “This special version of the report has been revised to omit attorney client privilege, predecisional, and source selection sensitive data. The full report is For Official Use Only (FOUO). To request a copy of the full report, file …
Preliminary Annual Report on U.S. Portfolio Holdings of Foreign Securities at End-Year 2005
Preliminary annual report on U.S. Portfolio Holdings of Foreign Securities at End-Year 2005, September 29, 2006.
FDA Findings on E. Coli Outbreak in Spinach
Press release: “FDA is announcing today that all spinach implicated in the current outbreak has traced back to Natural Selection Foods LLC of San Juan Bautista, California. This determination is based on epidemiological and laboratory evidence obtained by multiple states and coordinated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Natural Selection Foods issued a …
FTC Testifies on Protecting Consumers' Telephone Records
Press release: “The Federal Trade Commission today told the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations that protecting the privacy of consumers’ telephone records requires a multi-faceted approach. Joel Winston, Associate Director of FTC’s Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, said that coordinated law enforcement efforts targeting pretexters, steps by telephone …
Government Reform Minority Office Posts Abramoff Investigation Website
Press release, Friday, September 29, 2006: “Following Mr. Abramoff’s guilty plea in January, President Bush and other top White House officials issued repeated statements that Mr. Abramoff was a virtual stranger to the White House. The documents reviewed by the Committee tell a different story. They show that between January 2001 and March 2004, there …
CRS Report on Protection of Security-Related Information
Protection of Security-Related Information, September 27, 2006 (via FAS, 29 pages, PDF) Related postings on use of various designations for government documents to restrict public access
Staff Report on Recognizing North Korea as a Strategic Threat: An Intelligence Challenge for U.S.
House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee, Recognizing North Korea as a Strategic Threat: An Intelligence Challenge for the United States, September 28, 2006 (26 pages, PDF).
