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Anabolic Steroid Abuse: Federal Efforts to Prevent and Reduce Anabolic Steroid Abuse among Teenagers, GAO-08-15, October 31, 2007 Digital Television Transition: Questions on the DTV Converter Box Subsidy Program and a DTV Inter-Agency Task Force, GAO-08-297R, November 19, 2007 NASA: Agency Has Taken Steps Toward Making Sound Investment Decisions for Ares I but Still Faces …
House Government and Oversight “Chairman Waxman today released a draft of an internal FDA guidance that would allow drug companies to use journal articles to promote potentially dangerous uses of drugs and medical devices without prior FDA review and approval.” Letter to FDA Commissioner von Eschenbach from Chairman Waxman: “I have obtained a copy of …
Press release: “The Division of Privacy and Identity Protection of the Commissions Bureau of Consumer Protection has issued a summary of information it has obtained in preparation for an upcoming FTC workshop on private-sector use of Social Security numbers (SSNs)…In July 2007, FTC staff invited interested parties to comment on the issues surrounding private sector …
GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM – OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM, By Month, October 7, 2001 Through November 3, 2007
DHS OIG FY 2008 Annual Performance Plan (PDF, 101 pages – 1.3 MB) – New 11/30/2007
Center for Immigration Studies, Immigrants in the United States, 2007 – A Profile of Americas Foreign-Born Population, November 2007, Steven A. Camarota. “This Backgrounder provides a detailed picture of the number and socio-economic status of the nations immigrant or foreign-born population, both legal and illegal. The data was collected by the Census Bureau in March …
Press release: Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that New York and eleven other states are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over new regulations denying the public access to information about toxic chemicals in their communities. The EPA will allow thousands of companies to avoid disclosing information to the public about the …
“To celebrate the one-year anniversary of FedSpending.org, OMB Watch Nov. 29 released a new and improved version of the website. The new version includes a complete FY 2006 data set for both contracts and federal assistance spending. The upgraded site also incorporates major functionality improvements, including the addition of a mapping feature on all searches, …
Homeland Security: Federal Efforts Are Helping to Alleviate Some Challenges Encountered by State and Local Information Fusion Centers, GAO-08-35, October 30, 2007: “Most states and many local governments have established fusion centers to address gaps in information sharing. Fusion centers across the country vary in their stages of development–from operational to early in the planning …
Press release: “The Federal Trade Commission and the federal financial regulatory agencies (the Agencies) have approved proposed regulations and guidelines to help ensure the accuracy and integrity of information provided to consumer reporting agencies and to allow consumers to directly dispute inaccuracies with financial institutions and other entities that furnish information to consumer reporting agencies. …
Follow up on previous postings on U.S. Attorney firings, today’s press release: “Taking the next step to enforce subpoenas that the White House has refused to heed, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Thursday ruled that White House claims of executive privilege and immunity in the Senates investigation of the mass firings of U.S. …
United Nations Arms Embargoes: Their Impact on Arms Flows and Target Behaviour, A Report by SIPRI and the Uppsala University Special Program on the Implementation of Targeted Sanctions. ISBN 978-91-85114-56-6. Executive Summary. This report is the first analysis of the 27 United Nations arms embargoes that have been imposed since 1990. UN arms embargoes have …
