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Finance Panel to Consider Baucus Iran Sanctions Plan: “Baucuss Iran sanctions plan reflects a number of elements in S. 970, an Iran sanctions bill on which the Committee held a hearing in April, but is written to ensure that America remains in compliance with World Trade Organization rules and to continue to allow limited sales …
Federal Reserve Banks: Areas for Improvement in Information Security Controls, GAO-08-836R, June 16, 2008 “Our fiscal year 2007 audit procedures identified 12 information security control deficiencies, all of which relate to general controls. Specifically, the control deficiencies identified were in the areas of entitywide security program planning and management, access control, and system software. In …
EPIC: In a unanimous decision, the US Supreme Court upheld the right of individuals to request documents under the Freedom of Information Act, even if similar documents were previously requested by others. The Court rejected the Federal Aviation Administration’s contention that it may ignore requests if the agency previously received identical requests from different requesters. …
SEC Proposed Rules for Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations(Release No. 34-57967, File No. S7-13-08) “Today, in the first of three related actions the Commission is proposing rule amendments that would impose additional requirements on nationally recognized statistical rating organizations (NRSROs) in order to address concerns about the integrity of their credit rating procedures and methodologies …
Five Year Action Plan to Cleanup the Uranium Contamination in the Navajo Nation, as requested by House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, March 3, 2008 “Mine operators extracted nearly four million tons of uranium ore from 1944 to 1986 under lease agreements with the Navajo Nation. As a result, uranium mining has left the …
DOD OIG: Effect of Payments Into Boeing Pension Funds on Economic Price Adjustment Clauses in DoD Contracts,May 28, 2008. Redacted, unclassified.
H.R. 6193: To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop and administer policies, procedures, and programs to promote the implementation of the Controlled Unclassified Information Framework applicable to unclassified information that is homeland security information, terrorism information, weapons of mass destruction information and other information within the scope of the information sharing environment established …
Border Security: Summary of Covert Tests and Security Assessments for the Senate Committee on Finance, 2003-2007, GAO-08-757, May 16, 2008 Federal Real Property: Property Conveyances between the District of Columbia and the Federal Government Await Completion, and Development Will Take Many Years, GAO-08-684, June 13, 2008 Global War on Terrorism: Reported Obligations for the Department …
State Department news release: “The United States renewed its support for Afghanistan today, June 12, by pledging $10.2 billion for security and reconstruction assistance at the International Conference in Support of Afghanistan. This includes $3.1 billion in assistance appropriated in fiscal year 2008 (part of a total of more than $26 billion in U.S. assistance …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission…told the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation that legislation authorizing the Commission to seek civil penalties in spyware cases could add a potent remedy to those otherwise available to the Commission. In testimony to the Committee, Eileen Harrington, Deputy Director of the FTCs Bureau of Consumer Protection, said …
Peru Country Analysis Brief (06/12/2008): “For the latest information on energy in Peru, please see our updated Country Analysis Brief. OPEC Revenues Fact Sheet (06/11/2008): “For the latest EIA estimate of net oil export revenues by members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), please see our updated OPEC Revenues Fact Sheet. EIA …
Inquiry Concerning the Deployment of Advanced Telecommunications Capability to All Americans in a Reasonable and Timely Fashion, and Possible Steps to Accelerate Such Deployment Pursuant to Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, released June 12, 2008. “This is the Commissions Fifth Report examining the availability of advanced telecommunications capability to all Americans, as …
