Missouri River Navigation: Data on Commodity Shipments for Four States Served by the Missouri River and Two States Served by Both the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, GAO-09-224R, January 15, 2009 Medical Devices: FDA Should Take Steps to Ensure That High-Risk Device Types Are Approved through the Most Stringent Premarket Review Process, GAO-09-190, January 15, 2009… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Wildlife Strikes to Civil Aircraft in the United States 1990 – 2007
Wildlife Strikes to Civil Aircraft in the United States 1990 – 2007: June 2008 Report Prepared by the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. “The civil and military aviation communities widely recognize that the threat to human health and safety from aircraft collisions with wildlife (wildlife strikes)… Continue Reading
Report: Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies
Final Report of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force to the Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking of State Attorneys General of the United States, Published January 14, 2009: “The Internet Safety Technical Task Force was created in February 2008 in accordance with the Joint Statement on Key Principles of Social Networking Safety announced in… Continue Reading
Treasury Releases Term Sheet for S Corps
News release: “The U.S. Treasury Department today released the term sheet and answers to frequently asked questions for qualified financial institutions applying to the Capital Purchase Program that are S corporations. The term sheet provides for issuances of debt instead of stock, unlike other term sheets for the Capital Purchase Program.” Term Sheet S-Corporations… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve Beige Book, January 14, 2009
Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District, January 14, 2009: “Overall economic activity continued to weaken across almost all of the Federal Reserve Districts since the previous reporting period. Most Districts noted reduced or low activity across a wide range of industries, although a few Districts noted some exceptions in some… Continue Reading
Financial Regulators Release Guidance on Risk Management of Remote Deposit Capture
News release: “The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) issued guidance today for examiners, financial institutions, and technology service providers to identify risks, evaluate controls, and assess risk management practices related to remote deposit capture (RDC) systems. RDC enables customers to make deposits from their homes or businesses instead of taking the deposits to their… Continue Reading
White House Acknowledged Scope of Missing E-mails in Court Today
Follow up to previous postings on missing White House emails, today’s news release: “At a hearing today concerning the risks posed by the presidential transition to the recovery of millions of missing e-mails from the Executive Office of the President (EOP) in the National Security Archive’s lawsuit seeking restoration of those e-mails, the White House… Continue Reading
Pew Survey: Adults and Social Network Websites
“The share of adult internet users who have a profile on an online social network site has more than quadrupled in the past four years — from 8% in 2005 to 35% now, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project’s December 2008 tracking survey. While media coverage and policy attention focus heavily on… Continue Reading
GAO Report: Framework for Crafting and Assessing Proposals to Modernize the Outdated U.S. Financial Regulatory System
Financial Regulation: A Framework for Crafting and Assessing Proposals to Modernize the Outdated U.S. Financial Regulatory System, GAO-09-310T, January 14, 2009. “…significant developments have outpaced a fragmented and outdated regulatory structure, and, as a result, significant reforms to the U.S. regulatory system are critically and urgently needed. The current system has significant weaknesses that, if… Continue Reading
November Airline On-Time Performance Improves from Last Year
News release: “The nation’s largest airlines had a higher rate of on-time flights this past November than in the same month last year, although the rate of delays was higher than in October 2008, according to the Air Travel Consumer Report released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). According to information filed with… Continue Reading
CBO Cost Estimate: Childrens Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009
H.R. 2, Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009, January 13, 2009. Cost estimate for the bill as transmitted to CBO by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on January 13, 2009. “The legislation would authorize the Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP) through fiscal year 2013 and increase federal funding for the program… Continue Reading
2009 Social Security/SSI/Medicare Information Factsheet
2009 Social Security/SSI/Medicare Information, December 29, 2008. Continue Reading
