News release: “The Committee launched an investigation immediately after the disaster, finding it likely that the tragedy was the result of a flawed plan for conducting retreat mining in the area of the mine where the deaths occurred.” Memorandum from the Chairman to the Members of the Committee on Education and Labor Regarding the August… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2008
CBO Report: Capital Budgeting, May 2008
Capital Budgeting, May 2008 | pdf | blog “Proponents of capital budgeting assert that the current budgetary treatment of capital investment creates a bias against capital spending and that additional spending would benefit the economy by boosting productivity. They note that capital budgeting could better match budgetary costs with benefit flows and eliminate some of… Continue Reading
DOD IG: Security Controls Over Joint Strike Fighter Classified Technology
Security Controls Over Joint Strike Fighter Classified Technology, March 6, 2008, redacted: “The Joint Strike Fighter Program which cost $2.99.8 billion, as of December 31, 2006, to acquire more than 2,450 aircraft, will bring the most advanced aviation and weapons technologies into the next generation of strike fighter aircraft.” Continue Reading
Quick Health Facts 2008: A Compilation of Selected State Data
Quick Health Facts 2008: A Compilation of Selected State Data Research Report, Leigh Purvis, AARP Public Policy Institute, Lynda Flowers, AARP Public Policy Institute, April 2008 “This publication provides a snapshot of each states health care landscape by providing comparable state-level and national data for over 30 indicators. Data are presented for each state and… Continue Reading
Local Cost of War Breakdowns Based on President's New Funding Request
“As Congress considers President Bush’s request for another $178 billion in total war funding for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2008 and the first part of Fiscal Year 2009, the National Priorities Project (NPP) released today a state-level table and breakdowns of Iraq war spending costs by state, congressional district, county and town, showing the… Continue Reading
Agencies Issue Proposed Rules on Risk-Based Pricing Notices
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Reserve Board today announced proposed regulations that generally would require a creditor to provide a consumer with a risk-based pricing notice when, based in whole or in part on the consumers credit report, the creditor offers or provides credit to the consumer on terms less favorable… Continue Reading
Background Material and Data on the Programs within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means, 2008
News release: “Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY), today announced the release of the 2008 edition of Background Material and Data on the Programs within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means, informally known as the Green Book. The Green Book provides updated data and information on programs within the… Continue Reading
National Archives Creates Plan for Online Access to Founding Fathers Papers
News release: “On Tuesday, May 6, 2008, Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein submitted a report, entitled The Founders Online, to the Committees on Appropriations of the U.S. Congress. This report is the National Archives response to concerns raised by the Committees that the complete papers of Americas Founding Fathers are not available online.… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Aviation and the Environment, Employment and Training Program Grants, Human Capital
Aviation and the Environment: NextGen and Research and Development Are Keys to Reducing Emissions and Their Impact on Health and Climate, GAO-08-706T, May 6, 2008 Employment and Training Program Grants: Evaluating Impact and Enhancing Monitoring Would Improve Accountability, GAO-08-486, May 7, 2008 Human Capital: Corps of Engineers Needs to Update Its Workforce Planning Process to… Continue Reading
Report: Employer Health Costs In a Global Economy: A Competitive Disadvantage for U.S. Firms
Employer Health Costs In a Global Economy – A Competitive Disadvantage For U.S. Firms, By Len Nichols, Sarah Axeen, New America Foundation, May 2008: “Although most Americans get health insurance through their employers, business leaders are increasingly united in their belief that rising health care costs threaten Americas competitiveness in the global economy. Business support… Continue Reading
FBI Withdraws National Security Letter After ACLU and EFF Challenge
News release: “The FBI has withdrawn an unconstitutional national security letter (NSL) issued to the Internet Archive after a legal challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). As the result of a settlement agreement, the FBI withdrew the NSL and agreed to the unsealing of the case, finally… Continue Reading
VA OIG: Healthcare Inspection Scopes of Practice for Unlicensed Physicians Engaged in Veterans Health Administration Research
Healthcare Inspection Scopes of Practice for Unlicensed Physicians Engaged in Veterans Health Administration Research [07-01202-124], May 7, 2008. “We determined in a previous inspection that certain unlicensed physicians functioned outside their scopes of practice, engaging in activities that may constitute the practice of medicine. In an effort to identify whether this problem was systemic in… Continue Reading
