Overview Of Selected Tax Provisions Relating To The Financing Of Surface Transportation Infrastructure, Scheduled for a Public Hearing Before the Senate Committee on Finance on July 10, 2008, Prepared by the Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation. “This document…provides a description of present-law provisions relating to Highway Trust Fund and its dedicated taxes, a… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: July 2008
Report: Is the Sky Falling? Energy Security and Transnational Terrorism
Center for Contemporary Conflict: Is the Sky Falling? Energy Security and Transnational Terrorism by Dr. Michael Mihalka and Dr. David Anderson, July 2008. “This paper will assess the extent to which transnational terrorists, in particular global Jihadists associated with Osama bin Laden, have been interested in attacks against the global energy infrastructure. We then assess… Continue Reading
Report: China Will Surpass U.S. Economically by 2035, Double by Midcentury
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: “Chinas economy will surpass that of the United States by 2035 and be twice its size by midcentury, a new report by Albert Keidel concludes. Chinas rapid growth is driven by domestic demandnot exportsand will sustain high single-digit growth rates well into this century. In Chinas Economic RiseFact and Fiction,… Continue Reading
Global Challenges and Directions for Agricultural Biotechnology: Workshop Report
“Many developing countries are exploring whether biotechnology has a role in addressing national issues such as food security and environmental remediation, and are considering whether the putative benefits of the technology for example, enabling greater agricultural productivity and stability in the food supply outweigh concerns that the technology might pose a danger to biodiversity, health,… Continue Reading
2007 Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations and Unfunded Mandates
2007 Report to Congress on the Costs and Benefits of Federal Regulations and Unfunded Mandates on State, Local and Tribal Entities (June 2008) (116 pages) Continue Reading
National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse Report on Internet Activity Related to Controlled Prescription Drugs
News release: “Despite a decline in the number of Web sites advertising or selling controlled prescription drugs, like OxyContin and Valium, Xanax and Vicodin, and Ritalin and Adderall, in the past year, 85 percent of Web sites selling such drugs do not require a prescription, according to Youve Got Drugs! V: Prescription Drug Pushers on… Continue Reading
SEC Examinations Find Shortcomings in Credit Rating Agencies' Practices and Disclosure to Investors
News release: “The Securities and Exchange Commission today released findings from extensive 10-month examinations of three major credit rating agencies that uncovered significant weaknesses in ratings practices and the need for remedial action by the firms to provide meaningful ratings and the necessary levels of disclosure to investors. Under new statutory authority from Congress that… Continue Reading
G8 Leaders Statement on Counter-Terrorism
G8 Leaders Statement on Counter-Terrorism released by the White House: “We, the leaders of the G8, condemn in the strongest terms all acts of terrorism, and commit ourselves to take every possible measure to counter this threat to the international community. We have taken cooperative actions against terrorism, particularly in successive G8 Summits since 2001,… Continue Reading
HealthMap Global Disease Alert Map
“HealthMap brings together disparate data sources to achieve a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health. This freely available Web site integrates outbreak data of varying reliability, ranging from news sources (such as Google News) to curated personal accounts (such as ProMED)… Continue Reading
Report: ISP, Ad Networking Scheme May Violate Federal and State Wiretap Laws
News release: “The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) today released an analysis questioning the legal standing of a new approach to online advertising being considered by Internet Service Providers and Internet advertising networks. Under the new scheme, an ISP allows an advertising network to copy the contents of the individual Web traffic streams of… Continue Reading
New GAO Report Reveals Agencies are Not Complying with Requirements to Preserve E-mails
Committee on Oversight: “Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay, and Rep. Paul W. Hodes released a new GAO report that finds that senior federal officials are failing to comply with requirements to preserve e-mail records. On Wednesday, the House is expected to consider legislation (H.R. 5811) to modernize the Federal Records Act and… Continue Reading
National War Powers Commission Report Released
News release: “The Miller Center’s National War Powers Commission, co-chaired by former Secretaries of State James A. Baker, III and Warren Christopher, today recommended that Congress repeal the War Powers Resolution of 1973 and substitute a new statute that would provide for more meaningful consultation between the president and Congress on matters of war. In… Continue Reading
