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The Government Domain: Wrapping Up 2008 – E-gov expert Peggy Garvin provides an overview of the significant developments in the world of online government information this past year. According to Peggy, overall the year saw a push by individuals and non-government organizations for increased access to digital government information. Specifically, new official government and non-government …
New York Times: Obama Bolsters Recovery Plans as Economic Outlook Dims – “Faced with worsening forecasts for the economy, President-elect Barack Obama is expanding his economic recovery plan and will seek to create 3 million jobs in the next two years, up from a goal of 2.5 million jobs set just last month, several advisers …
News release: “Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Acting Chairman Walt Lukken announced today that, for the fourth consecutive year, the agency earned a clean audit opinion on its fiscal year (FY) financial statements. The FY 2008 report also shows the CFTC in substantial compliance with all financial laws and regulations, with no material weaknesses or …
CDT: “HHS Secretary Leavitt announced new key privacy principles for electronic health information exchange. In addition, HHSs Office of Civil Rights published new HIPAA Privacy Rule guidance, which provides important clarifying information on how the Privacy Rule governs covered entities engaged in electronic health information exchange. For example, it clarifies when covered entities must enter …
POGO letter to Congressional Oversight Committee leaders concerning certain financial companies seeking backdoor access to TARP funds: “The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is a non-partisan, non-profit government watchdog that works to achieve a federal government that is effective, accountable, open, and honest. In our continuing scrutiny of the Troubled Asset Relief Program’s (TARP) implementation, …
News release: “The Conference Board Employment Trends Index (ETI) declined further in November. The index fell to 102.9, down 1.6 percent from the October revised figure of 104.5, and down over 13 percent from a year ago. Thus far, the U.S. economy has lost 1.9 million jobs and the declines in the ETI suggest job …
Follow up to previous postings on auto industry, today’s White House press release: “…the only way to avoid a collapse of the U.S. auto industry is for the executive branch to step in. The American people want the auto companies to succeed, and so do I. So today, I’m announcing that the federal government will …
News release: “President-elect Barack Obama called for a a 21st century regulatory framework to ensure that a crisis like this can never happen again in announcing the nominations of two top regulatory officials: Mary Schapiro as the Chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Gary Gensler as the Chairman of the Commodity Futures …
Building an Americanization Movement for the Twenty-first Century – A Report to the President of the United States from the Task Force on New Americans, December 2008 “This report is the culmination of more than two years of research into immigrant integration efforts across all sectors of society in the United States. The report provides …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission issued a report today recommending five measures to help prevent Social Security numbers from being used for identity theft. Principal among the reports recommendations is that Congress consider taking action to strengthen the procedures that private-sector organizations use to authenticate their customers identities…The FTC report states that adopting nationwide …
Immigration Enforcement Actions: 2007 (PDF – 4 pages): “This report presents information on the apprehension, detention, return and removal of foreign nationals during fiscal year 2007.”
Budget Options, Volume 1: Health Care, December 2008 – “This volumewhich expands on one of the Congressional Budget Offices (CBOs) regular reports to the House and Senate Committees on the Budgetpresents 115 options for reducing (or, in some cases, increasing) federal spending on health care, altering federal health care programs, and making substantive changes to …
