Treasury Department, Legislative Provisions Relating to the International Monetary Fund: A Report to Congress in accordance with Sections 1503 and 1705(a) of the International Financial Institutions Act, Section 801(c)(1)(B) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2001 and Section 605(d) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act,… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2008
New GAO Reports: Defense Contracting, DOD Personnel Clearances
Defense Contracting: Army Case Study Delineates Concerns with Use of Contractors as Contract Specialists, GAO-08-360, March 26, 2008 DOD Personnel Clearances: Questions for the Record Related to the Quality and Timeliness of Clearances, GAO-08-580R, March 25, 2008 Continue Reading
U.S. International Reserve Position
March 26, 2008 – U.S. International Reserve Position: “The Treasury Department today released U.S. reserve assets data for the latest week. As indicated in this table, U.S. reserve assets totaled $75,146 million as of the end of that week, compared to $75,366 million as of the end of the prior week.” Continue Reading
Footnote.com and the National Archives Launch an Interactive Vietnam War Memorial
News release: “Footnote.com and the National Archives and Records Administration held a press conference at the Archives in Washington, DC, to announce the release of an online interactive photo of the Vietnam War Memorial. In addition to releasing this unique version of the Wall, Footnote.com enables visitors to search the Wall [58,000 plus names] for… Continue Reading
26 March 2008: The world's first Document Freedom Day
“Today is Document Freedom Day: The Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for Document Liberation with roughly 200 active teams worldwide. It is a day of grassroots effort around the world to promote and build awareness for the relevance of Free Document Formats in particular and Open Standards in general…Open Standards are essential… Continue Reading
The Greening of U.S. Corporations
March 2008: “This issue of eJournal [volume 13, number 3] USA delves into what those familiar with the history of the environmental movement in the United States might see as a surprising trend the way U.S. corporations in recent years have embraced environmentally friendly ways of doing business. What prompts a corporation to go… Continue Reading
More Foul Fowl: An Updated Analysis of Salmonella Contamination in Broiler Chickens
Food & Water Watch – a nonprofit consumer organization that works to ensure clean water and safe food: More Foul Fowl – An Updated Analysis of Salmonella Contamination in Broiler Chickens, March 2008: “The bacteria Salmonella is the leading cause of food-borne illness in the United States with nearly a million cases of salmonellosis attributed… Continue Reading
The Three Leading Causes of Injury Mortality in the United States, 1999-2005
The Three Leading Causes of Injury Mortality in the United States, 1999-2005, by Lois A. Fingerhut, M.A., Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, and Robert N. Anderson, Ph.D., Division of Vital Statistics: “In 2005, poisoning continued to be the second leading cause of injury death in the United States, having surpassed firearms for the first time… Continue Reading
National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics Report Issued
National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, 2005-2006. February 2008 37 pp. (PHS) 2008-1205 “This report is the latest in a series of periodic reviews of the work of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), the statutory public advisory committee on health information policy to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve Study Reveals Biggest Share of Checks Are Consumer to Business
News release: “The Federal Reserves 2007 study of the composition of the check market released today shows that nearly 50 percent of checks written are consumer-to-business checks. The Check Sample Study reports on the composition of the check market based on responses from nine large financial institutions that together account for about one quarter of… Continue Reading
DOE OIG: Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence Internal Controls Over DOE's Sensitive Compartmented Information Access Program
DOE OIG Inspection Report: Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence Internal Controls Over the Department of Energy’s Sensitive Compartmented Information Access Program, March 2008 – “We concluded that Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence did not have adequate internal controls over its Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access program.” Continue Reading
Leahy, Specter Call For DOJ Investigation Into Passport Data Breach At State Department
Follow up to State Department Acknowledges Unauthorized Access to Passport Records of Presidential Candidates, today’s news release: “Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Ranking Member Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) today urged the Attorney General to take immediate action to investigate reported breaches of the passport files of the three presidential candidates at the State… Continue Reading
