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News release: “The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness announced [November 19, 2010] the names of 14 people who will serve on the Department of Defense Task Force for Care, Management, and Transition of Recovering Wounded, Ill, and Injured Members of the Armed Forces. The four year mission of the …
Fact Sheet: “The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted unanimously to propose new rules entailing how security-based swap transactions should be reported and publicly disseminated. The rules are proposed under Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which generally authorizes the SEC to regulate security-based swaps. The proposed rules (Regulation …
What Good is Wall Street, John Cassidy: “From the end of the Second World War until 1980 or thereabouts, people working in finance earned about the same, on average and taking account of their qualifications, as people in other industries. By 2006, wages in the financial sector were about sixty per cent higher than wages …
Nuclear Weapons: National Nuclear Security Administration’s Plans for Its Uranium Processing Facility Should Better Reflect Funding Estimates and Technology Readiness, GAO-11-103, November 19, 2010 Defense Logistics: Additional Oversight and Reporting for the Army Logistics Modernization Program Are Needed, GAO-11-139, November 18, 2010 District of Columbia Public Education: Agencies Have Enhanced Internal Controls Over Federal Payments …
News release: “Homeowners will be protected by a new Federal Trade Commission rule that bans providers of mortgage foreclosure rescue and loan modification services from collecting fees until homeowners have a written offer from their lender or servicer that they decide is acceptable. The FTC is issuing the Mortgage Assistance Relief Services (MARS) Rule to …
Robo-Signing and Other Alleged Documentation Problems in Judicial and Nonjudicial Foreclosure Processes, David H. Carpenter, Legislative Attorney, November 15, 2010 “In recent weeks, several employees and individuals with power of-attorney signing authority for major servicers, including GMAC Mortgage, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Wells Fargo have been deposed as part of foreclosure contests. These depositions raised …
Getting Back in the Black, November 2010 “The federal budget is deep in the red, and getting it back in the black will not be easy or swift. On its current course, the debt is likely to reach 100 percent of the nations gross domestic product (GDP) early in the next decade and would continue …
DHS_ Preventing and Defending Against Cyber Attacks November 2010 DHS Highlights Two Cybersecurity Initiatives to Enhance Coordination with State and Local Governments and Private Sector Partners
A Long-Term Plan for Medicare and Medicaid, Alice Rivlin and Paul Ryan, November 17, 2010 Preliminary Analysis of the Rivlin-Ryan Health Care Proposal, November 17, 2010: “Congressman Ryan and his staff recently provided specifications for a proposal that would substantially change federal payments under the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Although an extensive analysis of that …
Ten Warning Signs That Your 401(k) Contributions Are Being Misused: “Increasingly employees are asked to make voluntary or mandatory contributions to pension and other benefit plans. This is particularly true for 401(k) savings plans. These plans allow you to deduct from your paycheck a portion of pretax income every year, invest it and pay no …
Public Spending on Transportation and Water Infrastructure, November 2010 “In fiscal year 2007the most recent year for which data on combined spending by the federal government and by state and local governments are availabletotal public spending for transportation and water infrastructure was $356 billion, or 2.4 percent of the nations economic output as measured by …
“The International Religious Freedom report is submitted to Congress annually by the Department of State in compliance with Section 102(b) of the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) of 1998. This report supplements the most recent Human Rights Reports by providing additional detailed information with respect to matters involving international religious freedom. It includes individual country …
