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Financial Restatement Database, GAO-06-1053R, August 31, 2006. “On July 24, 2006, we issued a report to Congress entitled, Financial Restatements: Update of Public Company Trends, Market Impacts, and Regulatory Enforcement Activities. That report included a listing of 1,390 financial restatement announcements that we identified as having been made because of financial reporting fraud and/or accounting …
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, in conjunction with the Pension Action Center at the Gerontology Institute, University of Massachusetts Boston, published this booklet in August 2002: Finding a Lost Pension (39 pages, PDF), which will assist you in planning and conducting a search for funds that are in your name, or funds which may be …
Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses — Updated September 11, 2006 Iraq: Elections, Government, and Constitution — Updated September 11, 2006 Iran’s Nuclear Program: Recent Developments — Updated September 6, 2006
Homeland Security: Coast Guard Operations – Background and Issues for Congress, updated September 12, 2006.
Department of State’s Annual Report on International Religious Freedom, September 15, 2006 “The 2006 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom covers 197 countries and territories. The pages of each country report distill the experience of the past year into a whole that we hope will spur debate in other countries, hold governments accountable to their …
Report on Review of Testimony to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Report No. 06-INTEL-12), September 12, 2006. “Both DoD and the FAA provided the Commission and the public with inaccurate information about their responses to the events of September 11, 2001. However, we found no indication that these statements were …
Press release: “Rep. Henry A. Waxman and Democratic Members of the Committee on Government Reform have developed six proposals to restore honesty and accountability in government…Ban secret meetings with lobbyists and close the revolving door; Restore open government; Clean up federal contracting; Block the appointment of cronies; Take politics out of science; Protect federal whistleblowers.” …
CRS Report, Undisclosed U.S. Detention Sites Overseas: Background and Legal Issues (24 pages, PDF), September 12, 2006.
2006-P-00033 Lessons Learned: EPA’s Response to Hurricane Katrina [Report PDF – 29 pages] [At a Glance PDF], September 14, 2006. Related links on Katrina
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: “The CIA has promised to stop judging the individual newsworthiness of the FOIA requests of the National Security Archive, a private research organization, in a move that could affect groups that have been charged higher fees under a recent change in CIA policy. In the CIA’s ongoing legal …
House Democratic Leader Report: United States Army Military Readiness, September 2006 (12 pages, PDF).
U.S. Courts: “Constitution Day officially is September 18 this year. To help teachers prepare for the observance, the federal courts and a number of other national institutions offer Constitution-related educational resources.” Related: Core Documents of U.S. Democracy – “To provide American citizens direct online access to the basic Federal Government documents that define our democratic …
