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Press release: “A new World Bank study ranking 150 countries pinpoints the places where its easy or difficult to ship goods across countries, into and out of ports, and over borders. The Logistics Performance Index (LPI) and accompanying study, Connecting to Compete: Trade Logistics in the Global Economy, find that the countries with the most …
“The Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) announced the release of a report to Congress on the interagency regulatory burden reduction effort spearheaded by OTS Director John Reich. The report details progress of the federal bank, thrift and credit union agencies on eliminating outdated, unnecessary and overly burdensome regulations. The 259-page report, issued by the member …
Progress Has Been Made But More Work Remains in Meeting Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 Requirements, OIG-08-01 (PDF, 34 pages) – New 11/02/2007 Technical Security Evaluation of U.S. Citizenship Activities at the Chet Holifield Federal Building, OIG-08-02 (PDF, 42 pages) – New 11/02/2007
October 17, 2007 – Medicaid Citizenship Documentation October 17, 2007 – Cost-of-Living Adjustments for Federal Civil Service Annuities October 17, 2007 – Retirement Savings Accounts: Fees, Expenses, and Account Balances October 16, 2007 – Electronic Rulemaking in the Federal Government October 15, 2007 – Crop Insurance and Disaster Assistance: 2007 Farm Bill Issues October 15, …
Fact Sheet: Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards: Appendix A “The Department of Homeland Security today released Appendix A of the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS), a critical element of its chemical security efforts. The appendix contains a list of chemicals that, if possessed by a facility in a specified quantity, trigger a requirement to complete and …
M-08-02, Report to Congress on FY 2007 Competitive Sourcing Efforts (October 31, 2007) (14 pages, PDF).
Via FAS, National Strategy for Combating Terrorism: Background and Issues for Congress, November 1, 2007 (19 pages, PDF): “Inherent in the National Strategy are a number of issues for Congress. These include (1) democratization as a counterterrorism strategy; (2) the validity of the Strategys assumptions about terrorists; (3) whether the Strategy adequately addresses the situation …
Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes, GAO-08-203R, November 2, 2007 Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes, GAO-08-202R, November 2, 2007 District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program: Additional Policies and Procedures Would Improve Internal Controls and Program Operations, GAO-08-9, November 1, 2007 State Department: Transparent Cost Estimates Needed to Support …
October 30, 2007 Quarterly Report to Congress: “Two notable developments provide a backdrop for SIGIRs work this quarter. First, total relief and reconstruction investment for Iraq from all sourcesthe United States, Iraq, and international donorspassed the $100 billion mark. And second, total attacks on Coalition forces and Iraqis dropped to their lowest levels in over …
Supplement to: Energy Market and Economic Impacts of S. 280, the Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act of 2007 (11/01/2007) “This paper responds to a September 18, 2007, letter from Senators Barrasso, Inhofe, and Voinovich, seeking further energy and economic analysis to supplement information presented in the Energy Information Administrations (EIA) recent analysis of S. 280, …
Long-Term Unemployment, October 2007 (34 pages, PDF), Prepared at the Request of the House Budget and Ways and Means Committee. “Even in a strong labor market, many people become unemployed for short periods as they enter the labor force or change jobs. But some people take many months to find a job. Over the past …
Corporate Fraud Data Base: “Last spring, as the five-year anniversary of the Corporate Fraud Task Force approached, The American Lawyer set out to review its record of fraud prosecution. This turned out to be a difficult undertaking. The U.S. Department of Justice, after repeated inquiries, finally explained that it collects its statistics from individual U.S. …
