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Daily Archives: October 26, 2007

New GAO Reports: Energy Employees Compensation, Federal Electricity Subsidies, Fusion Energy

  • Energy Employees Compensation: Actions to Promote Contract Oversight, Transparency of Labor’s Involvement, and Independence of Advisory Board Could Strengthen Program, GAO-08-4, October 26, 2007
  • Federal Electricity Subsidies: Information on Research Funding, Tax Expenditures, and Other Activities That Support Electricity Production, GAO-08-102, October 26, 2007
  • Fusion Energy: Definitive Cost Estimates for U.S. Contributions to an International Experimental Reactor and Better Coordinated DOE Research Are Needed, GAO-08-30, October 26, 2007
  • Military Base Realignments and Closures: Transfer of Supply, Storage, and Distribution Functions from Military Services to Defense Logistics Agency, GAO-08-121R, October 26, 2007
  • Single Audit Quality: Actions Needed to Address Persistent Audit Quality Problems, GAO-08-213T, October 25, 2007
  • Judiciary Committee Releases Questions To AG Nominee Mukasey

    Follow up to previous postings on the nomination of Michael B. Mukasey to be Attorney General, today’s press release provides additional documents: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Friday released written questions and correspondence submitted for the record to Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey. Consistent with standard committee practice, Senators were given a week… Continue Reading

    Index of Presidential Signing Statements 2001-2007

    “A comprehensive index of presidential signing statements issued between 2001 and 2007. The index, compiled by Neil Kinkopf, associate professor of law at Georgia State University College of Law and former special assistant in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice, provides a comprehensive list of every provision of a law objected… Continue Reading