“Comptroller of the Currency John C. Dugan said today that new data shows that more than half of loans modified in the first quarter of 2008 fell delinquent within six months.”
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Daily Archives: December 8, 2008
CDC: Marital Status is Associated With Health Insurance Coverage for Working-age Women at all Income Levels, 2007
Marital Status is Associated With Health Insurance Coverage for Working-age Women at all Income Levels, 2007. 8 pp. (PHS) 2009-1209. December 2008. “Overall, unmarried women aged 25-64 years are about 60% more likely than married women to lack health insurance coverage, but that disadvantage is not consistent across poverty status groups.” Continue Reading
Data Mining: Technology and Policy The DHS Privacy Office
2008 Report to Congress – Data Mining: Technology and Policy The DHS Privacy Office. December 2008 “This report describes DHS programs that meet the definition of data mining required by the Congress in Section 804 of the 9/11 Commission Act, entitled the Federal Agency Data Mining Reporting Act, and summarizes the Privacy Offices public workshop,… Continue Reading
Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency
“The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency has released its final report, Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency. The Commissions three major findings are: cybersecurity is now one of the major national security problems facing the United States; decisions and actions must respect American values related to… Continue Reading
Draft Bill: Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act
Follow up on previous postings concerning the auto industry bailout, today’s draft bill – Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act, December 8, 2008: “The purposes of this Act are (1) to immediately provide authority and facili16 ties to restore liquidity and stability to the domestic automobile industry in the United States; and (2) to ensure… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006, IRS SRFMI Data-Sharing Pilot Program
Actions Taken to Implement the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006, GAO-09-59R, November 21, 2008 Tax Administration: IRS Needs to Strengthen Its Approach for Evaluating the SRFMI Data-Sharing Pilot Program, GAO-09-45, November 07, 2008 Continue Reading
SEC, MSRB: New Measures to Provide More Transparency Than Ever Before for Municipal Bond Investors
News release: “The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has unanimously approved measures that will shine more light than ever before on the municipal securities market by tapping the power of the Internet. For the first time, investors will have a free, one-stop way to find municipal bond information online to help them… Continue Reading
America's Mayors Report to the Nation on Projects to Strengthen Metro Economies and Create Jobs Now
Follow up to November 16, 2008 posting, U.S. Conference of Mayors’ 153 City Survey Targets Infrastructure Projects, today’s release: Infrastructure Jobs in Cities Ready to Go [803 pages, PDF]: “Today The U.S. Conference of Mayors releases the second in its series of reports on infrastructure projects that are ready to go in cities across… Continue Reading
DHS Risk Lexicon
Risk Steering Committee, DHS Risk Lexicon, September 2008: “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is in the process of building an Integrated Risk Management Framework to improve its capability to make risk-informed strategic decisions using systematic and structured assessments of homeland security risk. The Integrated Risk Management Framework includes processes and tools that allow DHS… Continue Reading
Final Rules and Proposed Rules relating to Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations and Credit Ratings
“The Commission will consider whether to adopt final rule amendments and whether to propose new rule amendments that will impose additional requirements on nationally recognized statistical rating organizations in order to address concerns raised about the policies and procedures for, transparency of, and potential conflicts of interest relating to ratings of residential mortgage-backed securities backed… Continue Reading
Committee Report Criticizes Presidents Assertion of Executive Privilege
“The House Oversight Committee will next Tuesday consider a report supported by Chairman Henry A. Waxman and former Ranking Member Tom Davis finding that President Bush made a legally unprecedented and an inappropriate use of executive privilege when he directed Attorney General Mukasey to withhold Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgeralds interview of Vice President Cheney from… Continue Reading
Cleaning Up America's Nuclear Weapons Complex: An Update for States
News release: “States have made enormous strides treating and disposing of America’s Cold War nuclear waste over the past 18 years, but significant challenges and hurdles persist, according to a new report by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center). The report, Cleaning Up America’s Nuclear Weapons Complex, articulates the progress states… Continue Reading
