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GSA Global Supply’s Direct Vendor Delivery Proposal Addresses Declining Office Product Sales, but Annual Reviews May Be Needed to Monitor Impact on Small Business Participation, GAO-09-230R, February 6, 2009 National Cybersecurity Strategy: Key Improvements Are Needed to Strengthen the Nation’s Posture, GAO-09-432T, March 10, 2009 Transportation Programs: Challenges Facing the Department of Transportation and Congress, …
OPEC Revenues Fact Sheet (03/10/2009): “Based on projections from the EIA March 2009 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) could earn $383 billion of net oil export revenues in 2009 and $503 billion in 2010. Last year, OPEC earned $970 billion in net oil export revenues, a …
Mother Jones: “By slipping a simple, three-sentence provision into the gargantuan spending bill passed by the House of Representatives last week, a congressman from Silicon Valley is trying to nudge Congress into the 21st Century. Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) placed a measure in the bill directing Congress and its affiliated organsincluding the Library of Congress …
Unclassified: Office of the Director of National Intelligence Data Mining Report, 15 February 2008. “The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is pleased to provide to the Congress this report pursuant to Section 804 of the Implementing the Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, entitled The Federal Agency Data Mining Reporting …
News release: “Senior financial supervisors from five countries today issued a report that assesses a range of risk management practices among a sample of major global financial services organizations. This report Observations on Risk Management Practices during the Recent Market Turbulence summarizes a joint review that supervisors initiated this past autumn. The seven …
Executive Order Removing Barriers to Responsible Scientific Research Involving Human Stem Cells, March 9, 2009. “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. Research involving human embryonic stem cells and human non-embryonic stem cells …
Follow up to related postings on presidential signing statements, today’s memo from the White House: “In recent years, there has been considerable public discussion and criticism of the use of signing statements to raise constitutional objections to statutory provisions. There is no doubt that the practice of issuing such statements can be abused. Constitutional signing …
Afghanistan Security: U.S. Programs to Further Reform Ministry of Interior and National Police Challenged by Lack of Military Personnel and Afghan Cooperation, GAO-09-280, March 9, 2009 Highway Infrastructure: Federal Efforts to Strengthen Security Should Be Better Coordinated and Targeted on the Nation’s Most Critical Highway Infrastructure, GAO-09-57, January 30, 2009 Highway Trust Fund: Improved Solvency …
APTA Ridership Report: Fourth Quarter 2008 Mode Totals Agency Totals Bus Agencies Largest Commuter Rail Agencies Heavy Rail Agencies Light Rail Agencies Trolleybus Agencies
March 04, 2009 – The Economic Effects of Capital Gains Taxation March 03, 2009 – Medicare Advantage
News release: “Hispanic students comprised 12 percent of full-time college students (both undergraduate and graduate students) in 2007, up from 10 percent in 2006, according to U.S. Census Bureau tables released today. Hispanics comprise 15 percent of the nations total population. School Enrollment in the United States: 2007 contains eight detailed tables based on statistics …
Your Bank Has Failed: What Happens Next? – “What would happen if your local bank failed? Scott Pelley and “60 Minutes” were given extraordinary access, as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation moves in to take over a failed bank in Chicago.” “EDIE the Estimator can calculate your FDIC insurance coverage for each FDIC-insured bank where …
