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Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Community Planning and Development – The Third Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, July 29, 2008 (144 pages, PDF) “…on a single night in January 2007, there were 671,888 sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons nationwide. At this point in time, nearly two-thirds of the nations homeless population …
DOD Financial Management: Adjudication of Butterbaugh Claims for the Restoration of Annual Leave or Pay, GAO-08-948R, July 28, 2008 Financial Management: DOD’s Ability to Prevent, Identify, Investigate, and Report on Antideficiency Act Violations, GAO-08-941R, July 28, 2008 Human Rights: U.S. Government’s Efforts to Address Alleged Abuse of Household Workers by Foreign Diplomats with Immunity Could …
Bombers, Bank Accounts, and Bleedout: al-Qa’ida’s Road in and Out of Iraq, July 22, 2008 (126 pages. PDF): “The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point (CTC) launched the Harmony Project in order to release and analyze documents from the Department of Defenses classified Harmony Datbase. The Harmony Project unearths and releases documents that reveal the …
“The Financial Systems Integration Office within the General Services Administration released the Federal Financial Management Standard Business Processes [Word doc.], which establishes the framework for standardizing, consolidating, and optimizing financial accounting practices across government to improve the cost, quality and performance of financial management operations.”
News release: “The national security system created by the U.S. government in 1947 that served the nation throughout the Cold War is outdated and needs a massive restructuring to better protect the American people from terrorism, rogue states and other 21st century dangers, according to a study issued today by the Project on National Security …
News release: “The Committee on Energy and Commerce…released a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report that shows the Department of Energys (DOE) efforts to consolidate and streamline its counterintelligence program may be veering off course, potentially jeopardizing its ability to protect some of the country’s most sensitive national security secrets from foreign intelligence services.” CRS Report, …
Mid-Session Review, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2009 (54 pages, PDF). Information contains revised estimates of budget receipts, outlays, and budget authority for fiscal years 2008 through 2013 and other summary information. “The Mid-Session Review updates the Administrations estimates of Government receipts, outlays, and deficits or surpluses to reflect economic, legislative, and …
News release: “The U.S. Treasury Department took steps today to encourage additional sources of mortgage finance and strengthen financial institutions by issuing Best Practices for Residential Covered Bonds…A covered bond is secured debt instrument that provides funding to a depository institution, collateralized by high-quality mortgage loans that remain on the issuer’s balance sheet. Covered bonds …
Telecommunications: Agencies Are Generally Following Sound Transition Planning Practices, and GSA Is Taking Action to Resolve Challenges, GAO-08-759, June 27, 2008 Tax Expenditures: Available Data Are Insufficient to Determine the Use and Impact of Indian Reservation Depreciation, GAO-08-731, June 26, 2008 Electronic Health Records: DOD and VA Have Increased Their Sharing of Health Information, but …
News release: “New Federal data showing further steep declines in the number of miles Americans are driving is additional proof that the country needs new means – other than the gas tax – to finance the nation’s transportation infrastructure, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters said today…Secretary Peters said that Americans drove 9.6 billion …
Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR): Comprehensive Plan Needed to Guide the Future of the Iraq Reconstruction Management System, July 25, 2008 “This report addresses the Iraq Reconstruction Management System. Public Law 108-106 created the $18.4 billion Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund (IRRF), and established a requirement for the IRRF-implementing agencies …
News release: “A year after the subprime market crisis erupted in the United States, triggering financial market turmoil around the world, global financial markets continue to be fragile and systemic risks remain elevated, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in its latest assessment.” Global Financial Stability Report, Market Update, July 28, 2008: “Global financial markets …
