Category «Government Documents»

New GAO Reports: Digital Television Transition, Military Base Realignments and Closures

Agreed-Upon Procedures: Senate Office of Public Records Revolving Fund, Fiscal Years 2006 and 2007, GAO-08-201R, December 7, 2007 Digital Television Transition: Increased Federal Planning and Risk Management Could Further Facilitate the DTV Transition, GAO-08-43, November 19, 2007 Information Technology: Census Bureau Needs to Improve Its Risk Management of Decennial Systems, GAO-08-259T, December 11, 2007 Military …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

New CRS Reports: Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act , Federal Land Ownership

How Long Can the Defense Department Finance FY2008 Operations in Advance of Supplemental Appropriations? December 10, 2007 Russia’s December 2007 Legislative Election: Outcome and Implications, December 10, 2007 FY2008 Supplemental Appropriations for Global War on Terror Military Operations, International Affairs, and Other Purposes, December 10, 2007 Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: The Annapolis Conference, December 7, 2007 …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legislation

Federal Register Notice and Comment Period on Survey of Information Sharing Practices with Affiliates

Press release: “Section 214(e) of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act requires the Federal Trade Commission, the federal banking agencies, and the National Credit Union Administration to jointly conduct regular studies of the consumer information sharing practices by financial institutions and other persons that are creditors or users of consumer reports with their affiliates. …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

New GAO Reports

Bankruptcy: Implementation of Reform Act’s Debt Reaffirmation Agreement Provisions, GAO-08-94, December 7, 2007 Improper Payments: Weaknesses in USAID’s and NASA’s Implementation of the Improper Payments Information Act and Recovery Auditing, GAO-08-77, November 9, 2007 Military Base Realignments and Closures: Impact of Terminating, Relocating, or Outsourcing the Services of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, GAO-08-20, …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

HHS OIG Advisory Opinion on Medigap Policy

HHS OIG, Advisory Opinion 07-15 (concerning the use of a preferred hospital network as part of a Medicare Supplemental Health Insurance (Medigap) policy), posted December 10, 2007.

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

DoD Evaluates Military Service Academies' Sexual Harassment and Violence Programs

Press release: “The Department of Defense today released key findings from this years Military Service Academy Assessment report. The report is the first such assessment to combine an evaluation of the academies new sexual assault prevention and response programs, an evaluation of sexual harassment programs, and feedback from cadet and midshipmen focus groups. DoD officials …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Report Describes Systematic White House Effort to Manipulate Climate Change Science

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee: “For the past 16 months, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has been investigating allegations of political interference with government climate change science under the Bush Administration. During the course of this investigation, the Committee obtained over 27,000 pages of documents from the White House Council on Environmental …

Subjects: Censorship, Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

New CRS Reports: FCC and Media Ownership, China, THUD, State Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Pension Protection, RFS

The FCC’s 10 Commissioned Economic Research Studies on Media Ownership: Policy Implications, December 5, 2007 China’s 17th Communist Party Congress, 2007: Leadership and Policy Implications, December 5, 2007 State Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Comparison and Analysis, December 5, 2007 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education: FY2008 Appropriations, December 4, 2007 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Legislation

CRS Report – Open Source Intelligence

Via OpenCRS – CRS Report, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT): Issues for Congress, December 5, 2007 (27 pages, PDF). “Open source information (OSINT) is derived from newspapers, journals, radio and television, and the Internet. Intelligence analysts have long used such information to supplement classified data, but systematically collecting open source information has not been a priority …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

New CBO Reports: Monthly Budget Review, Impact of Unauthorized Immigrants on the Budgets of State and Local Governments, Cost Estimate for Energy Independence and Security Ac

Monthly Budget Review, December 2007: “The federal budget deficit was $157 billion during the first two months of fiscal year 2008, CBO estimates, $35 billion more than the shortfall recorded through November of last year. Close to half of that difference is the result of shifts in the timing of certain payments and a difference …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Legislation

Joint DOJ and CIA Investigation into Destruction of Interrogation Videotapes

Follow up to Conyers, House Judiciary Members Question CIA, DOJ on Destroyed Interrogation Tapes, from the New York Times: Inquiry Begins Into Tapes Destruction: “The Justice Department and the Central Intelligence Agencys internal watchdog on Saturday began a joint preliminary inquiry into the spy agencys destruction of hundreds of hours of videotapes showing interrogations of …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Legal Research

TRAC Reports on Pornography-Child Prosecutions and Convictions for August 2007

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse: “In August 2007, there were 62 federal prosecutions of child pornography, according to timely enforcement data from the Justice Department. Though unchanged from the previous month, filings in this category are down by about half (49.7%) from the previous year, and down 20% from five years ago. These declines follow a …

Subjects: Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

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