Category «Government Documents»

New GAO Reports: Federal Courthouse Construction, Defense Contract Management Agency, Airport and Airway Trust Fund, Gender Pay Differences

Federal Courthouse Construction: Nationwide Space and Cost Issues Are Applicable to L.A. Courthouse Project, GAO-12-206T, Nov 4, 2011 Defense Contract Management Agency: Amid Ongoing Efforts to Rebuild Capacity, Several Factors Present Challenges in Meeting Its Missions, GAO-12-83, Nov 3, 2011 Fiscal Year 2011 Agreed-Upon Procedures for Excise Tax Distributions to the Airport and Airway Trust …

Subjects: Government Documents

September 2011 Sees SSA Disability Backlog Climb Ever Higher

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse: “Despite the Social Security Administration’s longstanding goal of reducing the number of pending disability cases, very recent SSA data show that these matters continue to head in the opposite direction, reaching 771,318 by the end of September. The increase — up 9.3% from what it was a year ago — marked …

Subjects: Government Documents, Legal Research

SEC IG Allegations of Enforcement Staff Misconduct in InsiderTrading Investigation

Report of Investigation, United States Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of Inspector General. Case No. OIG-511. Allegations of Enforcement Staff Misconduct in Insider Trading Investigation, August 22, 2011 [Redacted] “On January 30, 2009, complainant Mark Cuban, through his counsel at the law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, filed a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission …

Subjects: Government Documents, Legal Research

SIGTARP Quarterly Report to Congress October 27, 2011

Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Quarterly Report to Congress October 27, 2011 “This past quarter, SIGTARP brought transparency to some of the largest banks’ exit from TARP as they pressured Federal banking regulators to expedite their TARP exit because of concerns over executive compensation restrictions and a stigma …

Subjects: Government Documents, Legal Research

Economic Projections of Federal Reserve Board Members and Federal Reserve Bank Presidents, November 2011

“The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday released the attached table and charts summarizing the economic projections made by Federal Reserve Board members and Federal Reserve Bank presidents for the November 1-2 meeting of the Committee. The table will be incorporated into a summary of economic projections released with the …

Subjects: Government Documents

CDC – November 2011 Vital Signs Issue: Prescription Painkiller Overdoses in the US

CDC Vital Signs, November 2011: “Deaths from prescription painkillers have reached epidemic levels in the past decade. The number of overdose deaths is now greater than those of deaths from heroin and cocaine combined. A big part of the problem is nonmedical use of prescription painkillers—using drugs without a prescription, or using drugs just for …

Subjects: Government Documents

Capitalisation of bank exposures to central counterparties – consultative document

Capitalisation of bank exposures to central counterparties – consultative document, November 2, 2011 “The Basel Committee issued today its second consultative paper on the Capitalisation of bank exposures to central counterparties. The Committee’s proposals relate to the capitalisation of bank exposures to a central counterparty (CCP) and cover both capital requirements for default fund exposures …

Subjects: Government Documents

CBO – Recent Development Efforts for Military Airships

Recent Development Efforts for Military Airships, November 2011 “During the past decade’s operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. military has come to rely heavily on the continuous or nearly continuous presence overhead of both manned and unmanned aircraft to support ground troops. Unmanned aircraft that remain aloft in particular locations (or “orbits”) have been …

Subjects: Government Documents