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Follow up to previous postings on high speed rail in America, this news release: “President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden…[announced] that the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) is awarding $8 billion to states across the country to develop Americas first nationwide program of high-speed intercity passenger rail service. Funded by the American Recovery …
Western Grey Whale Conservation Plan, via International Union for Conservation of Nature: “The critically endangered western gray whale population, numbering only about 130 animals in 2008, remains on the edge of survival. Although recent data point to a slow increase, the additional death of just one mature female per year could send the population towards …
Foreign Medical Schools: Education Should Improve Monitoring of Schools That Participate in the Federal Student Loan Program, GAO-10-412, June 28, 2010 Financial Audit: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Funds’ 2009 and 2008 Financial Statements, GAO-10-705, June 25, 2010 Export Controls: Observations on Selected Countries’ Systems and Proposed Treaties, GAO-10-557, May 27, 2010 Information Technology: Management Improvements …
Follow up to postings on Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the “CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimate that enacting H.R. 4173 would increase revenues by $17.1 billion over the 2011-2015 period and by $26.9 billion over the 2011-2020 period and increase direct spending by $14.9 billion and $26.9 billion, …
News release: “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued draft guidance intended to help reduce the development of resistance to medically important antimicrobial drugs used in food-producing animals. Todays draft guidance outlines the FDAs current thinking on strategies to assure that antimicrobial drugs that are important for therapeutic use in humans are used judiciously …
United States Courts: “A total of 97 vacancies exist among the 876 Article III judgeships in the Federal Judiciary. Eighteen of the 179 courts of appeals judgeships are vacant, as well as 79 of the 675 district court judgeships. Nominations made by the President and awaiting Senate action are pending for 12 of the 18 …
News release: “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued draft guidance intended to help reduce the development of resistance to medically important antimicrobial drugs used in food-producing animals. Todays draft guidance outlines the FDAs current thinking on strategies to assure that antimicrobial drugs that are important for therapeutic use in humans are used judiciously …
News release: “On June 22, 2010 the lead Cabinet secretaries from the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) from the U.S. Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), and Veterans Affairs (VA) joined Executive Director of the USICH Barbara Poppe to unveil and submit to …
“The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Treasury (OCC); Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, (Board or Federal Reserve); Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC); Office of Thrift Supervision, Treasury (OTS), (collectively, the Agencies) are adopting final guidance designed to help ensure that incentive compensation policies at banking organizations do not encourage imprudent …
Prisoners at Yearend 2009 – Advance Counts, Heather C. West, June 23, 2010. NCJ 230189 “Presents data on prisoners under jurisdiction of federal or state correctional authorities on December 31, 2009, collected from the National Prisoner Statistics series. This report compares changes in the prison population during 2009 to changes from yearend 2000 through yearend …
House Financial Services Committee press release: “Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act – Create a Sound Economic Foundation to Grow Jobs, Protect Consumers,Rein in Wall Street, End Too Big to Fail, Prevent Another Financial Crisis: “Americans have faced the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Millions have lost their jobs, businesses have …
News release: “A new Tax Foundation report shows significant movement of American households up and down the income spectrum over time, challenging claims of income inequality based on snapshot analyses of income distribution. Nearly 60 percent of taxpayers who were in the bottom-earning 20 percent in 1999 (earning less than $13,000) were in a higher …
