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FAA’s FY 2008 Budget Request: Key Issues Facing the Agency, May 10, 2007, Project ID: CC-2007-054. “On May 10, 2007, the Inspector General testified on FAA’s FY 2008 budget request before the Senate Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies. The Inspector General testified that regardless of the funding mechanism ultimately decided …
“EMAC, the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, is a congressionally ratified organization that provides form and structure to interstate mutual aid. Through EMAC, a disaster impacted state can request and receive assistance from other member states quickly and efficiently, resolving two key issues upfront: liability and reimbursement.”
Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology press release: “The report provides an overview of functional foodsfoods that are enhanced to provide health benefits beyond basic nutritionand looks at the potential to develop these foods through the application of modern biotechnology. After detailing some of the recent scientific advances that could lead to a variety of …
CRS Report, FDA’s Authority to Ensure That Drugs Prescribed to Children Are Safe and Effective, May 1, 2007. “The Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act (BPCA, P.L. 107-109) and the Pediatric Research Equity Act (PREA, P.L. 108-155) allow the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to offer financial and regulatory incentives to manufacturers for testing their products …
The Successful Use of Information from the Private Financial Sector – Salvador Hernandez, Deputy Assistant Director, Criminal Investigative Division, FBI, Before the House Committee on Financial Services, May 10, 2007: “The analysis of financial records generated by the private financial services sector provides law enforcement and the intelligence community real opportunities to proactively identify criminal …
Healthcare Inspection, Implementing VHA’s Mental Health Strategic Plan Initiatives for Suicide Prevention [06-03706-126], May 10, 2007. (79 pages, PDF)
“On Thursday, May 10..the Domestic Policy Subcommittee…evaluate[d] incompleteness in the federal database used for checking the criminal and mental health records of gun purchasers, as well as the inconsistencies in state compliance with federal gun purchase laws. The hearing…address[ed] inconsistencies among the states in their supplemental gun prohibition laws. The hearing…concern[ed] state compliance with the …
“In January 2007, there were 490 federal prosecutions of white collar crime, according to timely enforcement data from the Justice Department. Filings in this category are down 13% from the previous month, reaching their lowest level in the last five years….Reports on the latest enforcement trends.” [Jeff Lamicela, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)]
Governors and State Legislators Submit Comments on the Draft Regulations to Implement the Real ID Act, May 8, 2007 DHS’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee Comment on the Real ID, May 7, 2007 FCW.com reports that the DHS Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee announced at a May 7, 2007 meeting that “cannot endorse …
Federal Register notice: May 10, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 90), “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a guidance for industry entitled Computerized Systems Used in Clinical Investigations, dated May 2007. This document provides to sponsors, contract research organizations, data management centers, clinical investigators, and institutional review boards, recommendations regarding the …
D-2007-093 DoD Compliance with the Federal Managers Financial Integrity Act of 1982 (May 8, 2007) (Project D2006-D000FA-0106.000) PDF and Summary.
Full Committee on Agriculture Public Hearing, May 9, 2007. To review the impact of imported contaminated food and feed ingredients and of recent food safety emergencies on food safety and animal health systems. Witnesses: Panel I Dr. Kenneth E. Petersen, Food Safety Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Dr. David Acheson, …
