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Daily Archives: July 21, 2006
Economic Effects of Recent Increases in Energy Prices
The Economic Effects of Recent Increases in Energy Prices (36 pages, PDF) Report prepared by the Congressional Budget Office, July 2006. Continue Reading
Controversy Over Signing Statements Escalates
U.S. News reports that an ABA task force is planning to escalate the debate on the president’s use of signing statements to bypass laws passed by Congress. “In a report to be released Monday, the [task force] will recommend that Congress pass legislation providing for some sort of judicial review of the signing statements.” Continue Reading
National Academies Report on Preventing Medication Errors
“At the urging of the Senate Finance Committee, the United States Congress mandated that Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sponsor a study by the IOM to address the problem of medication errors. Preventing Medication Errors puts forward a national agenda for reducing medication errors based on estimates of the incidence and cost of such… Continue Reading
FDA Scientists Disclose Political Interference within the Agency
Press release: “The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) today released survey results that demonstrate pervasive and dangerous political influence of science at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Of the 997 FDA scientists who responded to the survey, nearly one-fifth (18.4 percent) said that they “have been asked, for non-scientific reasons, to inappropriately exclude or… Continue Reading
GAO Report on Hospital Disaster Preparedness
Disaster Preparedness: Limitations in Federal Evacuation Assistance for Health Facilities Should be Addressed GAO-06-826, and Highlights, July 20, 2006. “Hurricane Katrina demonstrated difficulties involved in evacuating communities and raised questions about how hospitals and nursing homes plan for evacuations and how the federal government assists. Due to broad-based congressional interest, GAO assessed the evacuation of… Continue Reading
