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Comptroller General Commends Treasury – OMB Citizen’s Guide, February 14, 2008: “The Department of the Treasury and the Office of Management and Budget today issued the first-ever Citizens Guide highlighting certain important short and long-term financial information in the 2007 Financial Report of the United States Government. The U.S. Government Accountability Office, which audits the …
Via ThinkProgress.org and Free Government Info: “Forbes has awarded EconomicIndicators.gov one of its Best of the Web awards. As Forbes explains, the government site provides an invaluable service to the public for accessing U.S. economic data: “This site is maintained by the Economics and Statistics Administration and combines data collected by the Bureau of Economic …
Update of CBO’s Economic Forecast, February 15, 2008 “In preparation for new baseline projections that will be released at the beginning of March, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has updated its macroeconomic forecast. CBO has occasionally issued revisions to the forecast it publishes in January, but they are relatively uncommon. This revision is motivated by …
Department of Homeland Security FY 2009 Explanation of Changes – General Provisions (3574 pages, PDF). Includes U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Coast Guard.
“The Pentagon’s surplus program sells millions of dollars of excess military equipment to the public each year. It also moves extra supplies around within the federal government and gives surplus military gear such as weapons, armored personnel carriers and aircraft to state and local law enforcement agencies. Select a state for a list of military …
Press release: “The Federation of American Scientists, along with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), and independent analysts, have issued a report, Toward True Security, that calls for immediately declaring that the sole mission for U.S. nuclear weapons is to deter nuclear attack, for taking all nuclear weapons off …
CODENOMICON White Paper – Wireless Security: Past, Present and Future, by Sami Petäjäsoja, Tommi Mäkilä, Mikko Varpiola, Miikka Saukko and Ari Takanen, Version 1.0, February 1st, 2008 “New wireless technologies such as WiMAX, NFC and ZigBee are rapidly being adopted, along with existing wireless standards such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GSM and other cellular technologies. Bluetooth …
Your Guide to Online Privacy, by Mark Glaser “As we share more information online via myriad site registrations, online social networking profiles, e-commerce sites and search engines, the desire by companies and governments to mine that information is increasingly at odds with the desire of users to protect it. While online businesses can create their …
“This Registry of USG Recommended Biometric Standards (Registry) supplements the NSTC Policy for Enabling the Development, Adoption and Use of Biometric Standards. This Registry is based upon interagency consensus on biometric standards required to enable the interoperability of various Federal biometric applications, and to guide Federal agencies as they develop and implement related biometric programs. …
HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT (C00431569) JOHN MCCAIN 2008 INC. (C00430470) OBAMA FOR AMERICA (C00431445)
Summary Report of the 2007 Financial Report: A Citizen’s Guide to the 2007 Financial Report of the Government.
Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending, February 2008 (39 pages, PDF) This paper by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) examines the amount of and trends in geographic variation in health care spending, and the root causes of that variation. It also examines the relationship between spending and quality of care, and it discusses what those …