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CBO A series of issue summaries from the Congressional Budget Office, June 20, 2007 – Explaining the Consumer Price Index “The consumer price index for all urban consumers (CPI-U) is the best-known official measure of inflation. Published monthly by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the CPI-U tries to approximate changes in the cost …
Press release: “The Oversight Committee has learned that over the objections of the National Archives, Vice President Cheney exempted his office from the presidential order that establishes government-wide procedures for safeguarding classified national security information. The Vice President asserts that his office is not an entity within the executive branch. As described in a letter …
Bill to Provide for Comprehensive Immigration Reform and for Other Purposes, S. 1639 – Currently being debated in the Senate.
2007-P-00027 Overcoming Obstacles to Measuring Compliance: Practices in Selected Federal Agencies, [Report PDF – 36 pages] [At a Glance PDF] June 20, 2007.
Social Security Numbers: Federal Actions Could Further Decrease Availability in Public Records, though Other Vulnerabilities Remain, GAO-07-752, June 15, 2007: “Various public records in the United States, including some generated by the federal government, contain Social Security numbers (SSN) and other personal identifying information that could be used to commit fraud and identity theft. Public …
Press release: “The Central Intelligence Agency violated its charter for 25 years until revelations of illegal wiretapping, domestic surveillance, assassination plots, and human experimentation led to official investigations and reforms in the 1970s, according to declassified documents posted today on the Web by the National Security Archive at George Washington University. CIA director Gen. Michael …
D-2007-105 United States Transportation Command Compliance With DoD Policy on the Use of Commercial Sealift (June 21, 2007) (Project D2006-D000AB-0236.000)
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization and Procurement held a hearing entitled, “Inspectors General: Independence and Accountability,” on Wednesday, June 20, 2007. In connection with the hearing, Chairman Towns issued a fact sheet detailing recent situations that raise questions about independence and accountability of IGs.
Council of Economic Advisors, June 20, 2007: Immigrations Economic Impact: “In 2006, foreign-born workers accounted for 15% of the U.S. labor force, and over the last decade they have accounted for about half of the growth in the labor force. That immigration has fueled U.S. macroeconomic growth is both uncontroversial and unsurprising more total …
Hacking the Homeland: Investigating Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities at the Department of Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology, Wednesday, June 20, 2007. [links to prepared statements, testimony and relevant correspondence] Information Security: Homeland Security Needs to Enhance Effectiveness of Its Program, GAO-07-1003T, June 20, 2007. “To protect and mitigate threats and attacks …
Press release: Justice Department Files Joint Status Report on Microsofts Compliance with the Final Judgments: “The Department of Justice told the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia [June 19, 2007] that it has reached an agreement with Microsoft Corporation to resolve a complaint by Google regarding Microsofts desktop search function in Windows Vista. …
Attorney General’s Report to the President on Executive Order 13,392 (June 1, 2007). This report is now available electronically on the Department of Justice’s FOIA Web site here. The accessible version which is in compliance with Section 508 of the Disabilities Act is available here. (posted 6/8/07; supplemented 6/20/07). “In the Executive Order, the President …
