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News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has removed saccharin, a common artificial sweetener, and its salts from the agencys list of hazardous substances. Saccharin is no longer considered a potential hazard to human health. Saccharin is a white crystalline powder that is found in diet soft drinks, chewing gum and juice. Saccharin was …
2010 Census: Data Collection Operations Were Generally Completed as Planned, but Long-standing Challenges Suggest Need for Fundamental Reforms, GAO-11-193, December 14, 2010 2010 Census: Follow-up Should Reduce Coverage Errors, but Effects on Demographic Groups Need to Be Determined, GAO-11-154, December 14, 2010 2010 Census: Key Efforts to Include Hard-to-Count Populations Went Generally as Planned; Improvements …
News release: “The euro area is now recovering from a severe recession, but the build-up of large economic, fiscal and financial imbalances demands a coherent and forward-looking reform agenda, according to a new OECD report. The OECDs latest Economic Survey of the Euro Area, presented today in Brussels by OECD Deputy Secretary-General and Chief Economist …
Economic Impacts of Waiting to Resolve the Long-Term Budget Imbalance, December 10. 2010 “To prevent federal debt from rising to unsupportable levels, policymakers would eventually have to restrain the growth of spending, raise revenues significantly above their historical share of gross domestic product (GDP), or pursue some combination of those two approaches. Addressing the long-term …
News release: “The Federal Reserve Board on Monday proposed two rules that would expand the coverage of consumer protection regulations to credit transactions and leases of higher dollar amounts. The proposed rules would amend Regulation Z (Truth in Lending) and Regulation M (Consumer Leasing) to implement a provision of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and …
25 Point Implementation Plan To Reform Federal Information Technology Management, Vivek Kundra U.S. Chief Information Officer, December 9, 2010 “Information technology should enable government to better serve the American people. But despite spending more than $600 billion on information technology over the past decade, the Federal Government has achieved little of the productivity improvements that …
Follow up to postings on Wikileaks, news of a Hearing on the Espionage Act and the Legal and Constitutional Issues Raised by WikiLeaks, Thursday 12/16/2010. Pew Research Center: Public Sees WikiLeaks as Harmful
News release: “Exposure to tobacco smoke even occasional smoking or secondhand smoke causes immediate damage to your body that can lead to serious illness or death, according to a report released today by U.S. Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin. The comprehensive scientific report – Benjamins first Surgeon Generals report and the 30th tobacco-related …
News release: “The BIS Quarterly Review for December 2010, released today, discusses how the focus of market participants has shifted to renewed worries about sovereign risk in the euro area from the global impact of further monetary policy easing in the United States. The December issue also provides highlights from the latest BIS data on …
LLRX.com: Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Financial Protection Act: A Brief Legislative History with Links, Reports and Summaries The “craft” of legislative history construction is practiced with unique and outstanding expertise by law librarian Rick McKinney. This history is designed in a streamlined fashion so as to allow users to more easily check when …
International Petroleum Monthly – November 2010 Dec 10, 2010: “The International Petroleum Monthly (IPM) is the Energy Information Administration’s primary report of recent international petroleum (oil) statistics. This report includes world petroleum production statistics through September 2010. The IPM also includes statistics for petroleum demand, stocks, and imports for the Organization for Economic Cooperation …
Combat Drug Zone 2010: The United States Southwest Border, Colonel Stephen G Kent, Strategy Research Project, Unclassified. “Globalization and associated domestic variables such as the economy, energy, weapons proliferation, environmental issues and terrorism, dominate todays discussions, and resulting priorities. While a majority of Americans can readily identify with the everyday realities and stressors of life, …
