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News release: “On Tuesday, May 6, 2008, Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein submitted a report, entitled The Founders Online, to the Committees on Appropriations of the U.S. Congress. This report is the National Archives response to concerns raised by the Committees that the complete papers of Americas Founding Fathers are not available online. …
Aviation and the Environment: NextGen and Research and Development Are Keys to Reducing Emissions and Their Impact on Health and Climate, GAO-08-706T, May 6, 2008 Employment and Training Program Grants: Evaluating Impact and Enhancing Monitoring Would Improve Accountability, GAO-08-486, May 7, 2008 Human Capital: Corps of Engineers Needs to Update Its Workforce Planning Process to …
Healthcare Inspection Scopes of Practice for Unlicensed Physicians Engaged in Veterans Health Administration Research [07-01202-124], May 7, 2008. “We determined in a previous inspection that certain unlicensed physicians functioned outside their scopes of practice, engaging in activities that may constitute the practice of medicine. In an effort to identify whether this problem was systemic in …
Fact Sheet: Emergency Supplemental: Iraq, Afghanistan, Veterans, and Workers, House Appropriations Committee – Majority, May 7, 2008. “This week the House of Representatives will consider the emergency supplemental bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and pressing domestic needs. Under consideration are $183.77 billion in outstanding requests from the President. The Democratic proposal …
News release: “The Treasury Department today released U.S. reserve assets data for the latest week. As indicated in this table, U.S. reserve assets totaled $73,918 million as of the end of that week, compared to $74,541 million as of the end of the prior week.”
EPA OIG Semiannual Report to Congress, October 1, 2007 – March 31, 2008 (72 pages, PDF)
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works – hearing entitled Perchlorate and TCE in Water, May 6, 2008. From Opening Statement by Chairman Barbara Boxer: “…today we will hear about EPA’s particularly disturbing failures to address significant risks to our families from two widespread drinking water contaminants: perchlorate and trichloroethylene, usually just called “TCE.” Perchlorate …
US Courts news release: “In fiscal year 2007, it cost $24,922 to keep someone incarcerated in a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility for 12 months, and $22,871 to keep an inmate incarcerated in a community correction center. For the same 12-month period ending September 30, 2007, it cost $3,621.64 for a federal offender to be …
Monthly Budget Review, May 2008 pdf | blog. Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for March and the Daily Treasury Statements for April.
Employment Verification: Challenges Exist in Implementing a Mandatory Electronic Employment Verification System, GAO-08-729T, May 6, 2008 Medicare: Competitive Bidding for Medical Equipment and Supplies Could Reduce Program Payments, but Adequate Oversight Is Critical GAO-08-767T, May 6, 2008 Natural Catastrophe Insurance: Analysis of a Proposed Combined Federal Flood and Wind Insurance Program, GAO-08-504, April 25, 2008 …
OPEC Revenues Fact Sheet (05/06/2008): “This report includes estimates of OPEC net oil export revenues, based on projections from the May 2008 Short Term Energy Outlook. EIA estimates that members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) earned $674 billion in net oil export revenues in 2007, a 10 percent increase from 2006. …
Office of the Secretary of Defense and Joint Staff Reading Room: These documents were released to the New York Times regarding the Pentagon’s Military Analyst program.” See the New York Times, April 20, 2008. Behind TV Analysts, Pentagons Hidden Hand – “Retired officers have been used to shape terrorism coverage from inside the TV and …
