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Time: “…The notices are there to remind the hospital’s staff which includes everyone from the doctors and nurses who care for patients to the administrative, housekeeping and food-service personnel that every employee must be vaccinated against both seasonal and H1N1 flu or face possible termination. The mandate comes from the health department of …
MBL Scientist Finds Carbon Dioxide Makes Poison Ivy Worse: “Carbon dioxide is getting a bad rap lately for all that it contributes to global warming. Now rising CO2 levels may exacerbate another problem: poison ivy. New research by an MBL (Marine Biological Laboratory) scientist indicates that the prevalence, and itchiness, of poison ivy may get …
New York Times: “In what has become a ritual, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has swooped down on a handful of troubled lenders almost every Friday, seizing 98 since January alone and putting their assets into the hands of another bank…Burdened by worsening commercial real estate loans, many small banks troubles are just beginning. Many …
FedThread “gives you: collaborative annotation: Attach a note to any paragraph of the Federal Register; start a conversation. advanced search: Search the Federal Register (back to 2000) on full text, by date, agency, and other fields. customized feeds: Turn any search into an RSS or email feed, which will send you any new items that …
News release: “The Congressional Oversight Panel today released its October oversight report, An Assessment of Foreclosure Mitigation Efforts after Six Months. The Panel expresses concern about the limited scope and scale of the Making Home Affordable program and questions whether Treasury’s strategy will lead to permanent mortgage modifications for many homeowners. Rising unemployment, weak home …
Interim Review of ATFs Project Gunrunner, Evaluation and Inspections Report I-2009-006, September 2009: “Mexican drug trafficking organizations (cartels) are a pervasive organized crime threat to the United States, according to the Department of Justices 2009 National Drug Threat Assessment. The cartels use firearms trafficked from the United States primarily from the Southwest border states …
Withdrawal of U.S. Forces from Iraq: Possible Timelines and Estimated Costs, October 7, 2009 – Letter to the Honorable John F. Tierney “President Obama has announced that all U.S. combat operations for the war in Iraqalso called Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)will cease by the end of August 2010. According to the timeline described by Administration …
Pew Financial Reform Project, Briefing Paper# 10: Reassessing the Regulatory Role of the Fed, Grappling with the Dual Mandate and More? by Charles W. Calomiris.
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment on proposed amendments to the Free Annual File Disclosures Rule, also known as the “Free Credit Report Rule.” The proposed amendments would implement a new law designed to prevent consumer confusion in advertisements for free credit reports. The amendments also would address certain practices that …
Monthly Budget Review, October 2009 – Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for August and the Daily Treasury Statements for September “CBO estimates that the federal budget deficit was about $1.4 trillion in fiscal year 2009, $950 billion greater than the shortfall recorded in 2008. The 2009 deficit was equal to 9.9 percent of gross …
CBO: Preliminary Analysis of the Chairman’s Mark for the America’s Healthy Future Act, as Amended – October 7, 2009 Letter to the Honorable Max Baucus “According to CBO and JCTs assessment, enacting the Chairmans mark, as amended, would result in a net reduction in federal budget deficits of $81 billion over the 20102019 period…”
2010 Census: Census Bureau Continues to Make Progress in Mitigating Risks to a Successful Enumeration, but Still Faces Various Challenges, GAO-10-132T, October 07, 2009 Homeland Defense: Planning, Resourcing, and Training Issues Challenge DOD’s Response to Domestic Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and High-Yield Explosive Incidents, GAO-10-123, October 07, 2009 Medicaid: State and Federal Actions Have Been …
