News release: “The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday, with the full support of the Treasury Department, authorized the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to lend up to $85 billion to the American International Group (AIG) under section 13(3) of the Federal Reserve Act. The secured loan has terms and conditions designed to protect the… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Oversight Hearing on The Federal Bureau of Investigation
House Committee on the Judiciary – Oversight Hearing on: The Federal Bureau of Investigation, September 16, 2008 Statement of Robert Mueller, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, DC Related: See Commentary: New FBI Anti-Terror Guidelines, LLRX.com Continue Reading
FBI Releases 2007 Crime Statistics
News release: “After rising for two straight years, the estimated number of violent crimes in the nation declined from the previous years total. The declining trend continued for property crimes, as those offenses were down for the fifth year in a row. Statistics released today by the FBI show that the estimated volume of violent… Continue Reading
A Federal Perspective on Health Care Policy and Costs
CBO: Presentation to the Center for Public Health, Stanford University: A Federal Perspective on Health Care Policy and Costs, Peter Orszag Director, September 16, 2008. Continue Reading
CBO: The Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update September 2008
Congressional Budget Office – The Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update, September 2008 (92 pages, PDF) Economic Projections Tables Budget Projections Tables CBO’s Year-by-Year Forecast and Projections for Calendar Years 2008 to 2018 Key Assumptions in CBO’s Projection of Potential Output Supplemental Data on Mandatory Outlays (As of March 2008) Budget Projections Tables Continue Reading
FTC Challenges Reed Elseviers Proposed $4.1 Billion Acquisition of ChoicePoint, Inc.
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission today issued a complaint charging that Reed Elsevier Inc.s (Reed Elsevier) proposed $4.1 billion acquisition of ChoicePoint Inc. (ChoicePoint) would be anticompetitive and in violation of the antitrust laws, as it would combine the two largest providers of electronic public record services to U.S. law enforcement customers. To eliminate… Continue Reading
Association of Urinary Bisphenol A Concentration With Medical Disorders and Laboratory Abnormalities in Adults
Journal of the American Medical Association – JAMA. Published online September 16, 2008 (free articles as follows): Association of Urinary Bisphenol A Concentration With Medical Disorders and Laboratory Abnormalities in Adults – “Using data representative of the adult US population, we found that higher urinary concentrations of BPA were associated with an increased prevalence of… Continue Reading
DOJ Statistics on Prosecutions for 2008
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse: “The latest available data from the Justice Department show that for the first nine months of FY 2008, the federal government reported 111,874 prosecutions, a marked increase over the previous year. If activity continues at the same pace for the remaining months of the year, the total will be 149,165, up… Continue Reading
National Snow and Ice Data Center – Arctic sea ice reaches lowest extent for 2008
Arctic sea ice settles at second-lowest, underscores accelerating decline: “The Arctic sea ice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent for the year, the second-lowest extent recorded since the dawn of the satellite era. While above the record minimum set on September 16, 2007, this year further reinforces the strong negative trend in summertime… Continue Reading
Consumer Price Index (CPI) in the Washington-Baltimore, D.C.-Md.-Va.-W.Va. Metropolitan Statistical Area for August 2008
“Food at home and shelter prices in the Washington-Baltimore area advanced, while energy prices declined in August, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Sheila Watkins, the Bureaus regional commissioner, noted that despite the one-month decrease in… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Cyber Analysis and Warning, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Certifying Voting Systems
Cyber Analysis and Warning: DHS Faces Challenges in Establishing a Comprehensive National Capability, GAO-08-588, July 31, 2008 Critical Infrastructure Protection: DHS Needs to Better Address Its Cybersecurity Responsibilities, GAO-08-1157T, September 16, 2008 Critical Infrastructure Protection: DHS Needs to Fully Address Lessons Learned from Its First Cyber Storm Exercise, GAO-08-825, September 09, 2008 Environmental Health: EPA… Continue Reading
Overview of all 88 FOIA Countries
Overview of all 88 FOIA Countries (15 pages, PDF) by Roger Vleugels. Continue Reading
