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Review and Disposition of Individuals Detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and Closure of Detention Facilities: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, in order to effect the appropriate disposition of individuals currently detained by the Department of Defense at the …
High-Risk Series: An Update, GAO-09-271, January 22, 2009: “In 1990, GAO began a program to report on government operations that it identified as high risk. Since then, generally coinciding with the start of each new Congress, GAO has periodically reported on the status of progress to address high-risk areas and updated the high-risk list. GAOs …
EPA-350-R-09-001 Annual Superfund Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 2008, [Report PDF – 22 pages] January 2009 “As the amount of funds available for Superfund work continues to diminish, it becomes increasingly imperative for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to spend its Superfund dollars as prudently as possible to achieve maximum benefits from dollars …
International Energy Annual 2006 (01/22/2009): “The International Energy Annual 2006 is the Energy Information Administration’s primary report of international energy statistics. Included are data on energy consumption and production; overviews of petroleum, natural gas, coal, and electricity, as well as carbon dioxide emissions from the use of fossil fuels, petroleum prices, energy reserves, and population; …
George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum: “The George W. Bush Library holds millions of pages of official records documenting the two-term administration (2001-2009) of the nation’s forty-third president, as well as donated historical materials that document Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign and his personal papers as Governor of Texas. In addition to these textual records, …
“This final rule establishes a new official updated daily online-only publication entitled the “Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents.” The paper edition of the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents will no longer be issued. The annual edition of the Public Papers of the President will be based on the text of the Daily Compilation of Presidential …
News release: “On her first official day as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Janet Napolitano issued five Action Directives, all centered on one of the primary missions of DHS: Protection. In the coming days, Secretary Napolitano will issue other action directives focused on other missions critical to the department: Preparedness, Response, Recovery …
“A new National Priorities Project (NPP) analysis highlights a significant gap in the Army’s 2008 quantity and quality goals…This analysis is based on data obtained from the Department of Defense (Army Recruiting Command) through a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by the National Priorities Project. The Department of Defense provided the data for every …
CQ: “As one of his final acts as the nations spy chief, Michael McConnell on Friday said he would soon sign off on an intelligence information sharing policy that will result in a staggering increase in the amount of data available within the community. McConnell, the outgoing director of national intelligence (DNI), told reporters he …
News release: “On his first full day in office, President Barack Obama signed an executive order and two presidential memoranda heralding what he called a “new era of openness.” Announcing a Presidential Memorandum on the Freedom of Information Act to reestablish a presumption of disclosure for information requested under FOIA, President Obama said that “every …
Financial Regulation: A Framework for Crafting and Assessing Proposals to Modernize the Outdated U.S. Financial Regulatory System, GAO-09-314T, January 21, 2009 Bankruptcy: Judiciary Should Take Further Steps to Make, Bankruptcy Data More Accessible, GAO-09-28, December 18, 2008 Endangered Species Act: Many GAO Recommendations Have Been Implemented, but Some Issues Remain Unresolved, GAO-09-225R, December 19, 2008 …
“The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released a comprehensive report to Chair Naomi C. Earp from the Federal Hispanic Work Group. The report contains an extensive number of practical recommendations that address a broad array of contemporary federal sector employment issues, including hiring, leadership development and retention. The full report is entitled Report …
