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Daily Archives: February 16, 2008
Financial Management Service Summary Report of the 2007 Financial Report
Summary Report of the 2007 Financial Report: A Citizen’s Guide to the 2007 Financial Report of the Government. Continue Reading
CBO: Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending,
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… Continue Reading
WSJ: Tracking Housing Prices
Tracking Housing Prices – Why the Numbers Conflict, By David Wessel, The Wall Street Journal Online. “Predicting how much worse the U.S. housing market will get is tough. The future is never certain. But when it comes to home prices, getting a clear picture of the recent past turns out to be surprisingly hard as… Continue Reading
CBO: Policy Options for Reducing CO2 Emissions
Policy Options for Reducing CO2 Emissions, February 2008 (42 pages, PDF) “The most efficient approaches to reducing emissions of CO2 involve giving businesses and households an economic incentive for such reductions. Such an incentive could be provided in various ways, including a tax on emissions, a cap on the total annual level of emissions combined… Continue Reading
Federal Government Spending: API Documentation
“USAspending.gov is pleased to announce the availability of its data in an Application Programming Interface (API). The API consists of two methods, fpds.php and faads.php, that allow access to the data to the Federal contracts and Federal assistance databases respectively. All data present on USAspending.gov is available through the API, except for pie charts and… Continue Reading
ACLU: Bush Budget Kills FOIA Ombudsman
ACLU Blog: “…the Open Government Act of 2007, a bill that enjoyed broad bipartisan support in Congress…called for the appointment of a FOIA ombudsman, to work out of the National Archive, who would serve as an impartial mediator between citizens and the government agencies receiving their FOIA requests…Agencies would be held to the FOIA standards… Continue Reading
Full Committee Hearing on The Mitchell Report: The Illegal Use of Steroids in Major League Baseball, Day 2
Preliminary Transcript of Mitchell Report: The Illegal Use of Steroids in Major League Baseball, Day 2, February 14, 2008, “Note: This is a preliminary transcript of a Committee Hearing. It has not yet been subject to a review process to ensure that the statements within are appropriately attributed to the witness or member of Congress… Continue Reading
