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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 …
March 2008: “This issue of eJournal [volume 13, number 3] USA delves into what those familiar with the history of the environmental movement in the United States might see as a surprising trend the way U.S. corporations in recent years have embraced environmentally friendly ways of doing business. What prompts a corporation to go …
The Three Leading Causes of Injury Mortality in the United States, 1999-2005, by Lois A. Fingerhut, M.A., Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, and Robert N. Anderson, Ph.D., Division of Vital Statistics: “In 2005, poisoning continued to be the second leading cause of injury death in the United States, having surpassed firearms for the first time …
National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, 2005-2006. February 2008 37 pp. (PHS) 2008-1205 “This report is the latest in a series of periodic reviews of the work of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), the statutory public advisory committee on health information policy to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of …
News release: “The Federal Reserves 2007 study of the composition of the check market released today shows that nearly 50 percent of checks written are consumer-to-business checks. The Check Sample Study reports on the composition of the check market based on responses from nine large financial institutions that together account for about one quarter of …
DOE OIG Inspection Report: Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence Internal Controls Over the Department of Energy’s Sensitive Compartmented Information Access Program, March 2008 – “We concluded that Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence did not have adequate internal controls over its Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access program.”
Follow up to State Department Acknowledges Unauthorized Access to Passport Records of Presidential Candidates, today’s news release: “Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Ranking Member Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) today urged the Attorney General to take immediate action to investigate reported breaches of the passport files of the three presidential candidates at the State …
Trustees Report & Trust Funds: “The Medicare Program is the second-largest social insurance program in the U.S., with 44.1 million beneficiaries and total expenditures of $432 billion in 2007. The Boards of Trustees for Medicare (also Boards) report annually to the Congress on the financial operations and actuarial status of the program. Beginning in 2002, …
“The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is an inter-governmental body whose purpose is the development and promotion of national and international policies to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.” FATF Terrorist Financing Report, March 14, 2008 (37 pages, PDF): “This study examines the means used by terrorists to raise funds and the wide variety of …
United States Marshals Service Annual Financial Statement, Fiscal Year 2007, Audit Report 08-15, March 2008 (Commentary and Summary Only) Offices, Boards and Divisions Annual Financial Statement, Fiscal Year 2007, Audit Report 08-17, March 2008 (Commentary and Summary Only) Assets Forfeiture Fund and Seized Asset Deposit Fund Annual Financial Statement, Fiscal Year 2007, Audit Report 08-14, …
