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New Deal 2.0: Todays Opening Remarks from Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Chairman Phil Angelides “This bipartisan commission has been given a critical mission; one that is of clear national importance, and one that must be conducted without politics or partisanship of any kind: to examine the causes of the financial and economic crisis that has …
Homeland Defense: Greater Focus on Analysis of Alternatives and Threats Needed to Improve DOD’s Strategic Nuclear Weapons Security, GAO-09-828, September 18, 2009 Ryan White CARE Act: Effects of Certain Funding Provisions on Grant Awards, GAO-09-894, September 18, 2009
News release: “Obama Administration officials today released the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force Interim Report for a 30-day public review and comment period. The Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, led by White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley, consists of 24 senior-level officials from Administration agencies, departments, and offices. The report provides proposals …
Fact Sheet on U.S. Missile Defense Policy – A “Phased, Adaptive Approach” for Missile Defense in Europe: “President Obama has approved the recommendation of Secretary of Defense Gates and the Joint Chiefs of Staff for a phased, adaptive approach for missile defense in Europe. This approach is based on an assessment of the Iranian missile …
“Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services is updating its methodologies and assumptions for rating corporate cash flow and synthetic collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). This update follows our request for comment (RFC), titled “Update To Global Methodologies And Assumptions For Corporate Cash Flow CDO And Synthetic CDO Ratings,” published March 18, 2009. This represents a significant recalibration …
The Economic Effects of Legislation to Reduce Greenhouse-Gas Emissions, September 2009 “U.S. emissions currently account for roughly 20 percent of global emissions. As a result, substantially reducing global emissions would probably entail large reductions in U.S. emissions as well as emissions in other countries. Achieving such reductions would probably involve transforming the U.S. economy from …
“CDT told a congressional panel today that providing the public with direct, online access to complex government programs, such as TARP, would strengthen oversight. Media, watchdog groups, researchers and citizens could then better analyze the data for a wide variety of purposes. CDT asked the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee to ensure that legislation explicitly …
Depot Maintenance: Improved Strategic Planning Needed to Ensure That Army and Marine Corps Depots Can Meet Future Maintenance Requirements, GAO-09-865, September 17, 2009 Nuclear Nonproliferation: National Nuclear Security Administration Has Improved the Security of Reactors in its Global Research Reactor Program, but Action Is Needed to Address Remaining Concerns, GAO-09-949, September 17, 2009 Reserve Forces: …
News release: “The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today released a list of Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) performance evaluations that became public during the period of August 15, 2009 through September 14, 2009. The list contains only national banks and insured federal branches of foreign banks that have received ratings…Of the 35 …
17 September 2009 – “The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision today issued for consultation the Report and recommendations of the Cross-border Bank Resolution Group. Mr Nout Wellink, Chairman of the Basel Committee and President of the Netherlands Bank, noted that “the recommendations seek to promote more orderly resolution of cross-border banks to reduce systemic risk …
Statement of Marybeth Peters, The Register of Copyrights before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States House of Representatives 111th Congress 1st Session, September 10, 2009 “In the view of the Copyright Office, the settlement proposed by the parties would encroach on responsibility for copyright policy that traditionally has been the domain of Congress. The …
News release: “On a seasonally adjusted basis, the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose 0.4 percent in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The index has decreased 1.5 percent over the last 12 months on a not seasonally adjusted basis. The 0.4 percent seasonally adjusted increase in the CPI-U was …
