“The Federal Judicial Caseload Statistics tables for courts of appeals, district courts, bankruptcy courts, and the federal probation system and pretrial services through March 31, 2008 are newly posted.” Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Volunteering in the United States, 2008
Volunteering in the United States, 2008: ” About 61.8 million people, or 26.4 percent of the population, volunteered through or for an organization at least once between September 2007 and September 2008, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Both the level and rate of volunteering were essentially unchanged… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Federal User Fees, Immigration Application Fees, VA Health Care
Federal User Fees: Additional Analyses and Timely Reviews Could Improve Immigration and Naturalization User Fee Design and USCIS Operations, GAO-09-180, January 23, 2009 Immigration Application Fees: Costing Methodology Improvements Would Provide More Reliable Basis for Setting Fees, GAO-09-70, January 23, 2009 VA Health Care: Long-Term Care Strategic Planning and Budgeting Need Improvement, GAO-09-145, January 23,… Continue Reading
FTC Launches Redress Program for Mortgage Loan Victims
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission today announced that the agency returned almost $28 million to consumers this week as a result of a settlement with The Bear Stearns Companies, LLC and EMC Mortgage Corporation. Using the defendants records, about 86,000 consumers who had mortgage loans serviced by EMC have been mailed redress checks.” Continue Reading
2009 Poverty Guidelines – One Version of the [U.S.] Federal Poverty Measure
Health and Human Services 2009 Poverty Guidelines: There are two slightly different versions of the federal poverty measure: The poverty thresholds, and The poverty guidelines. The poverty thresholds are the original version of the federal poverty measure. They are updated each year by the Census Bureau (although they were originally developed by Mollie Orshansky of… Continue Reading
New Kind of Official Presidential Portrait Released
“Today we are releasing the new official portrait for President Barack Obama. It was taken by Pete Souza, the newly-announced official White House photographer. It is the first time that an official presidential portrait was taken with a digital camera. You can see the portrait [and] download a copy.” Continue Reading
New Executive Orders on Guantanamo Detention Facilities, Detention Policy, Lawful Interrogations
Review and Disposition of Individuals Detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and Closure of Detention Facilities: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, in order to effect the appropriate disposition of individuals currently detained by the Department of Defense at the… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: High-Risk Series, Real Property
High-Risk Series: An Update, GAO-09-271, January 22, 2009: “In 1990, GAO began a program to report on government operations that it identified as high risk. Since then, generally coinciding with the start of each new Congress, GAO has periodically reported on the status of progress to address high-risk areas and updated the high-risk list. GAOs… Continue Reading
Annual Superfund Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 2008
EPA-350-R-09-001 Annual Superfund Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 2008, [Report PDF – 22 pages] January 2009 “As the amount of funds available for Superfund work continues to diminish, it becomes increasingly imperative for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to spend its Superfund dollars as prudently as possible to achieve maximum benefits from dollars… Continue Reading
Energy Information Admnistration Reports: International Energy Annual, Electric Sales, Electric Power
International Energy Annual 2006 (01/22/2009): “The International Energy Annual 2006 is the Energy Information Administration’s primary report of international energy statistics. Included are data on energy consumption and production; overviews of petroleum, natural gas, coal, and electricity, as well as carbon dioxide emissions from the use of fossil fuels, petroleum prices, energy reserves, and population;… Continue Reading
George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum
George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum: “The George W. Bush Library holds millions of pages of official records documenting the two-term administration (2001-2009) of the nation’s forty-third president, as well as donated historical materials that document Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign and his personal papers as Governor of Texas. In addition to these textual records,… Continue Reading
Availability and Official Status of the Compilation of Presidential Documents
“This final rule establishes a new official updated daily online-only publication entitled the “Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents.” The paper edition of the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents will no longer be issued. The annual edition of the Public Papers of the President will be based on the text of the Daily Compilation of Presidential… Continue Reading
