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The Long March – Building an Afghan National Army, by: Obaid Younossi, Peter Dahl Thruelsen, Jonathan Vaccaro, Jerry M. Sollinger, Brian Grady “The Afghan National Army (ANA) is critical to the success of the allied efforts in Afghanistan and the ultimate stability of the national government. This monograph assesses the ANA’s progress in the areas …
The Evolving Terrorist Threat to Southeast Asia – A Net Assessment, by: Peter Chalk, Angel Rabasa, William Rosenau, Leanne Piggott “Terrorism is not new to Southeast Asia. For much of the Cold War, the activities of a variety of domestic ethnonationalist and religious militant groups posed a significant challenge to the region’s internal stability. Since …
Responses to Questions About the Cost of a Cap-and-Trade Program, June 12, 2009 – Letter to the Honorable John F. Kerry “…under the illustrative cap-and-trade program that CBO analyzed, the government would create allowances (that is, rights to emit CO2) and firms that are regulated under that program would need to acquire such allowances. The …
OIG-09-57 – Independent Auditors’ Report on the Transportation Security Administration’s Consolidated Balance Sheet as of September 30, 2008 (PDF, 53 pages) OIG-09-68 – Independent Auditor’s Report on TSA’s FY 2008 Mission Action Plans included in the DHS FY 2009 Internal Control Playbook (PDF, 17 pages) OIG-09-67 – Independent Auditor’s Report on Review of Department of …
U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes, May 2009: “The U.S. Import Price Index increased for the third consecutive month in May, rising 1.3 percent. An 8.3 percent increase in petroleum prices was the primary contributor to the overall advance. The U.S. Export Price Index rose 0.6 percent in May after increasing 0.4 percent in April.” …
“The entire 2006 edition of the United States Code is now available from the U.S. Government Printing Office. The 2006 edition contains the laws enacted through the 109th Congress (ending January 3, 2007, the last law of which was signed January 15, 2007). In addition, PDF files have been made available for the U.S. Code, …
News release: “Obama Administration officials announced that they are taking unprecedented steps to reduce the environmental impacts of mountaintop coal mining in the six Appalachian states of Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia through a coordinated approach between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of the Interior (DOI) and Army Corps of Engineers. …
EPA Chemical Assessments: Process Reforms Offer the Potential to Address Key Problems, GAO-09-774T, June 11, 2009 Public Housing: HUD’s Oversight of Housing Agencies Should Focus More on Inappropriate Use of Program Fund, GAO-09-33, June 11, 2009 Environmental Contamination: Lessons Learned from the Cleanup of Formerly Used Defense and Military Munitions Sites, GAO-09-779T, June 10, 2009
News release: “On the basis of available evidence and expert assessments of the evidence, the scientific criteria for an influenza pandemic have been met. The Director-General of WHO has therefore decided to raise the level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 5 to phase 6. “The world is now at the start of the 2009 …
“The World Trade Organization has recently posted on its website an interactive map that depicts disputes between its member states. The top of the webpage shows a list of highlight-able choices among types of member-state involvement in disputes: as complainant, respondent, or either. The accompanying map shows member-state areas of the world in a color …
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and Subcommittee on Domestic Policy held a hearing on: Bank of America and Merrill Lynch: How Did a Private Deal Turn Into a Federal Bailout? Opening Statement of Chairman Edolphus Towns Prepared Testimony of Mr. Kenneth D. Lewis Fed E-mails Opening Statement of Chairman Dennis Kucinich Closing Statement of …
News release: “Freddie Mac today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®) in which the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 5.59 percent with an average 0.7 point for the week ending June 11, 2009, up from last week when it averaged 5.29 percent. Last year at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged …
