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Kaiser Family Foundation release, 2/28/08: “Statehealthfacts.org recently added new and updated data on Medicare – CMS data on total Medicare enrollment as of January is available for all states and the nation. In addition, CMS data on the prescription drug coverage status of Medicare beneficiaries has been updated up to January. The updated drug coverage …
Congressional Budget Office Presentation to The Tax Policy Center and, the American Tax Policy Institute, Taxes and Health Insurance, February 29, 2008
The Connection Has Been Reset, by James Fallows. “In reality, what the Olympic-era visitors will be discovering is not the absence of Chinas electronic control but its new refinementand a special Potemkin-style unfettered access that will be set up just for them, and just for the length of their stay. According to engineers I have …
News release: “Preliminary data from a survey of foreign portfolio holdings of U.S. securities at end-June 2007 are released today on the U.S. Treasury web site. A revised table on Major Foreign Holders of Treasury Securities, where estimates through end-December 2007 are based in part on survey data, is also released at (http://www.treas.gov/tic/ticsec2.html, on line …
The Third Branch: “Fiscal year 2008 funding for the Judiciary was rolled up with 10 other appropriations bills and passed by Congress on December 19, 2007, as the 2008 Consolidated Appropriations Act. The President signed the bill into law the day after Christmas. The Judiciary received $6.246 billion in FY 2008, a 4.5 percent increase …
02/29/08 Release of the 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report; David T. Johnson, Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; Release of the 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report; Washington, DC. “The 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) is an annual report by the Department of State to Congress prepared in accordance …
Catastrophic Disasters: Federal Efforts Help States Prepare for and Respond to Psychological Consequences, but FEMA’s Crisis Counseling Program Needs Improvements, GAO-08-22, February 29, 2008 Foreign Investment: Laws and Policies Regulating Foreign Investment in 10 Countries, GAO-08-320, February 28, 2008 Intelligence Reform: GAO Can Assist the Congress and the Intelligence Community on Management Reform Initiatives, GAO-08-413T, …
D-2008-057 Contractor Past Performance Information, February 29, 2008 (Project No. D2006-D000AB-0207.000). “Results. The DoD Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System did not contain all active system contracts over $5 million. In addition, for system contracts that were in the DoD Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System and reviewed during the audit, we found that: 39 percent …
Center for Democracy and Technology: “Efforts to make Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports more accessible to the public received another boost today from Sen. Joe Lieberman, (ID-Conn.), who asked that a complete system be crafted that is readily accessible to the public. Currently, making the reports public is a time intensive task handled by congressional …
Follow up to previous postings on EPA library closures, this news release dated February 28, 2008: “A federal arbitrator has found the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency guilty of unfair labor practices and acting in bad faith in its national series of library closures, according to a ruling posted today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility …
Volume I: Drug and Chemical Control – 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report: “The International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) is an annual report by the Department of State to Congress prepared in accordance with the Foreign Assistance Act. It describes the efforts of key countries to attack all aspects of the international drug trade …
“The International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) is an annual report by the Department of State to Congress prepared in accordance with the Foreign Assistance Act. It describes the efforts of key countries to attack all aspects of the international drug trade in Calendar Year 2007.” United States Department of State, Bureau for International, Narcotics …
