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DOJ OIG: Review of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), Evaluation and Inspections Report I-2009-001, December 2008: “…we found that information in the national sex offender registries is incomplete and inaccurate and therefore the registries are not reliable tools for law enforcement and the public. For example, we found that registries were missing …
News release: “Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Bart Stupak (D-MI), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, today released a Committee on Energy and Commerce Majority Staff report detailing the findings of the Committees bipartisan investigation relating to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)…The report, titled Deception and Distrust: The Federal …
“Comptroller of the Currency John C. Dugan said today that new data shows that more than half of loans modified in the first quarter of 2008 fell delinquent within six months.” OCC & OTS Mortgage Metrics, Overall Redefault Rates (30+ days) Related postings on financial system
Marital Status is Associated With Health Insurance Coverage for Working-age Women at all Income Levels, 2007. 8 pp. (PHS) 2009-1209. December 2008. “Overall, unmarried women aged 25-64 years are about 60% more likely than married women to lack health insurance coverage, but that disadvantage is not consistent across poverty status groups.”
2008 Report to Congress – Data Mining: Technology and Policy The DHS Privacy Office. December 2008 “This report describes DHS programs that meet the definition of data mining required by the Congress in Section 804 of the 9/11 Commission Act, entitled the Federal Agency Data Mining Reporting Act, and summarizes the Privacy Offices public workshop, …
“The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency has released its final report, Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency. The Commissions three major findings are: cybersecurity is now one of the major national security problems facing the United States; decisions and actions must respect American values related to …
Actions Taken to Implement the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006, GAO-09-59R, November 21, 2008 Tax Administration: IRS Needs to Strengthen Its Approach for Evaluating the SRFMI Data-Sharing Pilot Program, GAO-09-45, November 07, 2008
News release: “The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has unanimously approved measures that will shine more light than ever before on the municipal securities market by tapping the power of the Internet. For the first time, investors will have a free, one-stop way to find municipal bond information online to help them …
Follow up to November 16, 2008 posting, U.S. Conference of Mayors’ 153 City Survey Targets Infrastructure Projects, today’s release: Infrastructure Jobs in Cities Ready to Go [803 pages, PDF]: “Today The U.S. Conference of Mayors releases the second in its series of reports on infrastructure projects that are ready to go in cities across …
Risk Steering Committee, DHS Risk Lexicon, September 2008: “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is in the process of building an Integrated Risk Management Framework to improve its capability to make risk-informed strategic decisions using systematic and structured assessments of homeland security risk. The Integrated Risk Management Framework includes processes and tools that allow DHS …
“The Commission will consider whether to adopt final rule amendments and whether to propose new rule amendments that will impose additional requirements on nationally recognized statistical rating organizations in order to address concerns raised about the policies and procedures for, transparency of, and potential conflicts of interest relating to ratings of residential mortgage-backed securities backed …
“The House Oversight Committee will next Tuesday consider a report supported by Chairman Henry A. Waxman and former Ranking Member Tom Davis finding that President Bush made a legally unprecedented and an inappropriate use of executive privilege when he directed Attorney General Mukasey to withhold Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgeralds interview of Vice President Cheney from …
