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GPO is pleased to announce the release of Authenticated Public and Private Laws for the 110th Congress on GPO Access: “Public and private laws are prepared and published by the Office of the Federal Register (OFR), National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). GPO Access contains the text of public and private laws enacted from the …
News release: “In the FTCs action against data brokers Reed Elsevier (REI) and Seisint, the complaint alleges that REI – through its LexisNexis data broker business – and Seisint collect and store in databases information about millions of consumers, including names, current and prior addresses, dates of birth, drivers license numbers and Social Security numbers. …
HIV/AIDS in the United States, March 2008: “At the end of 2003, an estimated 1,039,000 to 1,185,000 persons in the United States were living with HIV/AIDS. In 2006, 35,314 new cases of HIV/AIDS in adults, adolescents, and children were diagnosed in the 33 states with long-term, confidential name-based HIV reporting [2]. New HIV/AIDS diagnoses tell …
News release: “The Special Libraries Association (SLA) today met with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials to review the agency’s report to the U.S. Congress on the future direction of its library network. The report, EPA National Library Network Report to Congress (March 26, 2008), explains the steps EPA intends to take to reopen libraries …
The Department’s Unclassified Foreign Visits and Assignments Program, March 2008: “The Department of Energy’s national laboratories and various Federal officials interact with thousands of foreign national visitors and assignees every year. Visits and assignments are for a variety of purposes, including research collaborations and access to scientific user facilities. While the Department reports that these …
“Two major authorities govern the U.S. military justice system, the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and the Manual for Courts-Martial (MCM). Rather than published in revised editions, corrections and changes to early courts-martial manuals independently prepared by the Army and Navy were often printed as separate bulletins or announced in periodical literature. Officers …
State Estimates of Substance Use from the 20052006 National Surveys on Drug Use, Arthur Hughes, Neeraja Sathe, Kathryn Spagnola. DEPARTMENT OF Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies, February 2008. “This report presents State estimates for 23 measures of substance use or mental health problems based on …
Audit of Department of Justice’s Key Indicators, Audit 08-18, March 2008: “Integrating budget and performance has been an important government initiative to ensure that performance is routinely considered in funding and management decisions, and that programs achieve expected results and work toward continual improvement. To measure performance, federal agencies develop long-term strategic plans to provide …
Treasury Department, Legislative Provisions Relating to the International Monetary Fund: A Report to Congress in accordance with Sections 1503 and 1705(a) of the International Financial Institutions Act, Section 801(c)(1)(B) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2001 and Section 605(d) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, …
Defense Contracting: Army Case Study Delineates Concerns with Use of Contractors as Contract Specialists, GAO-08-360, March 26, 2008 DOD Personnel Clearances: Questions for the Record Related to the Quality and Timeliness of Clearances, GAO-08-580R, March 25, 2008
March 26, 2008 – U.S. International Reserve Position: “The Treasury Department today released U.S. reserve assets data for the latest week. As indicated in this table, U.S. reserve assets totaled $75,146 million as of the end of that week, compared to $75,366 million as of the end of the prior week.”
News release: “Footnote.com and the National Archives and Records Administration held a press conference at the Archives in Washington, DC, to announce the release of an online interactive photo of the Vietnam War Memorial. In addition to releasing this unique version of the Wall, Footnote.com enables visitors to search the Wall [58,000 plus names] for …
