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“On May 7, Mary Alice Baish of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) gave testimony [Statement on behalf of GPO funding] before the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, Legislative Branch Subcommittee, in support of the fiscal year (FY) 2009 budget request of the U.S. Government Printing Office. She testified on behalf of AALL, the American …
Federal Real Property: Corps of Engineers Needs to Improve the Reliability of Its Real Property Disposal Data, GAO-08-349, May 9, 2008 Offshore Marine Aquaculture: Multiple Administrative and Environmental Issues Need to Be Addressed in Establishing a U.S. Regulatory Framework, GAO-08-594, May 9, 2008
May 7, 2008 MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES – SUBJECT: Designation and Sharing of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) “Purpose:(1) This memorandum (a) adopts, defines, and institutes “Controlled Unclassified Information” (CUI) as the single, categorical designation henceforth throughout the executive branch for all information within the scope of that definition, which includes …
CBO Testimony on Current and Future Investment in Infrastructure May 8, 2008: Testimony before the Committee on the Budget and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, U.S. House of Representatives. PDF | CHARTS | WEBCAST | BLOG
Department of Homeland Security: Better Planning and Assessment Needed to Improve Outcomes for Complex Service Acquisitions, GAO-08-263, April 22, 2008 Department of Homeland Security: Better Planning and Oversight Needed to Improve Complex Service Acquisition Outcomes, GAO-08-765T, May 8, 2008 Human Capital: Transforming Federal Recruiting and Hiring Efforts, GAO-08-762T, May 8, 2008 Interagency Contracting: Need for …
News release: “The Committee launched an investigation immediately after the disaster, finding it likely that the tragedy was the result of a flawed plan for conducting retreat mining in the area of the mine where the deaths occurred.” Memorandum from the Chairman to the Members of the Committee on Education and Labor Regarding the August …
Capital Budgeting, May 2008 | pdf | blog “Proponents of capital budgeting assert that the current budgetary treatment of capital investment creates a bias against capital spending and that additional spending would benefit the economy by boosting productivity. They note that capital budgeting could better match budgetary costs with benefit flows and eliminate some of …
Security Controls Over Joint Strike Fighter Classified Technology, March 6, 2008, redacted: “The Joint Strike Fighter Program which cost $2.99.8 billion, as of December 31, 2006, to acquire more than 2,450 aircraft, will bring the most advanced aviation and weapons technologies into the next generation of strike fighter aircraft.”
Quick Health Facts 2008: A Compilation of Selected State Data Research Report, Leigh Purvis, AARP Public Policy Institute, Lynda Flowers, AARP Public Policy Institute, April 2008 “This publication provides a snapshot of each states health care landscape by providing comparable state-level and national data for over 30 indicators. Data are presented for each state and …
“As Congress considers President Bush’s request for another $178 billion in total war funding for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2008 and the first part of Fiscal Year 2009, the National Priorities Project (NPP) released today a state-level table and breakdowns of Iraq war spending costs by state, congressional district, county and town, showing the …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Reserve Board today announced proposed regulations that generally would require a creditor to provide a consumer with a risk-based pricing notice when, based in whole or in part on the consumers credit report, the creditor offers or provides credit to the consumer on terms less favorable …
News release: “Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY), today announced the release of the 2008 edition of Background Material and Data on the Programs within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means, informally known as the Green Book. The Green Book provides updated data and information on programs within the …
