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Press release, February 13, 2008: “The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted unanimously to propose rule amendments requiring investment advisers to prepare and deliver to clients and prospective clients a narrative brochure written in plain English. Brochures would be made available to the general public through the SEC sponsored Investment Adviser Public Disclosure Web site. …
National Wildlife Federation: “For thirty years the federal Clean Water Act broadly protected waters in the nation and across the Southwest. It sought, with a great deal of success, to safeguard important waters from pollution and destruction. Historically, it applied to waters from the Rio Grande to playa lakes. However, now the protections of the …
DNI Authorities Hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 14 February 2008, J. Michael McConnell, Director of National Intelligence. “We in the Intelligence Community have a solemn mandate: The responsibility to provide relevant and objective analysis to customers across the governmentfrom law enforcement officials, to warfighters, to the President, and the Congress. Our job …
Press release: “Six years after September 11, 2001, we are moving beyond operating as an organization in transition to a Department diligently working to protect our borders and critical infrastructure, prevent dangerous people and goods from entering our country, and recover from natural disasters effectively. The total FY 2009 budget request for DHS is $50.5 …
Press release: “Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that he is conducting an industry-wide investigation into a scheme by health insurers to defraud consumers by manipulating reimbursement rates. At the center of the scheme is Ingenix, Inc., the nations largest provider of healthcare billing information, which serves as a conduit for rigged data to …
Review of the Drug Enforcement Administrations Use of the Diversion Control Fee Account, Evaluation and Inspections Report I-2008-002, February 2008 (59 pages, PDF) Federal Bureau of Investigation Annual Financial Statement, Fiscal Year 2007, Audit Report 08-07, February 2008 (Commentary and Summary Only)
Progress Report of Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting, February 14, 2008 (11 pages, PDF). “This executive overview highlights the key themes that tie together the chapters in this progress report, with a few examples to illustrate each theme. The main themes are: 1. Increasing emphasis on the investor perspective in the financial reporting …
Report of the Defense Science Task Force on DoD Energy Strategy – More Fight-Less Fuel, February 2008, Unclassified (135 pages, PDF). “The final report concludes that the DoD faces two primary energy challenges: unnecessarily high, and growing, battlespace fuel demand compromises our operational capability and can jeopardize mission success; and critical missions at military installations …
Press release: “Most online Americans view online shopping as a way to save time and a convenient way to buy products. At the same time, most internet users express discomfort over a key step in online shopping sending personal or credit card information over the internet. According to the Pew Internet Projects September 2007 …
Press release: Statement by Dr. Julie Gerberding, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released today preliminary results from recent testing that found higher than typical indoor exposure levels of formaldehyde in travel trailers and mobile …
Press release: The number of acute coronary events such as heart attack in adults dropped significantly after a smoking ban in public places in Italy, researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Researchers in Rome compared acute coronary events in the city for five years preceding a public smoking ban with those …
DOD Personnel Clearances: DOD Faces Multiple Challenges in Its Efforts to Improve Clearance Processes for Industry Personnel, GAO-08-470T, February 13, 2008 – “The Department of Defense (DOD) maintains approximately 2.5 million security clearances on servicemembers, federal DOD civilian employees, industry personnel for DOD and 23 other federal agencies, and employees in the legislative branch. Delays …