Foreign Medical Schools: Education Should Improve Monitoring of Schools That Participate in the Federal Student Loan Program, GAO-10-412, June 28, 2010 Financial Audit: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Funds’ 2009 and 2008 Financial Statements, GAO-10-705, June 25, 2010 Export Controls: Observations on Selected Countries’ Systems and Proposed Treaties, GAO-10-557, May 27, 2010 Information Technology: Management Improvements… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2010
New on LLRX.com: Employment Online Resources
Employment Online Resources – This guide for researchers by Marcus P. Zillman is a comprehensive bibliography of resources and sites comprising the latest and most comprehensive, reliable content and value added information currently available on this subject via the Internet. Continue Reading
CBO Cost Estimate: H.R. 4173 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
Follow up to postings on Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the “CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimate that enacting H.R. 4173 would increase revenues by $17.1 billion over the 2011-2015 period and by $26.9 billion over the 2011-2020 period and increase direct spending by $14.9 billion and $26.9 billion,… Continue Reading
FDA Draft Guidance on Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobials in Food-Producing Animals
News release: “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued draft guidance intended to help reduce the development of resistance to medically important antimicrobial drugs used in food-producing animals. Todays draft guidance outlines the FDAs current thinking on strategies to assure that antimicrobial drugs that are important for therapeutic use in humans are used judiciously… Continue Reading
Federal Court Vacancies Total 97
United States Courts: “A total of 97 vacancies exist among the 876 Article III judgeships in the Federal Judiciary. Eighteen of the 179 courts of appeals judgeships are vacant, as well as 79 of the 675 district court judgeships. Nominations made by the President and awaiting Senate action are pending for 12 of the 18… Continue Reading
FDA Issues Draft Guidance on the Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobials in Food-Producing Animals
News release: “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued draft guidance intended to help reduce the development of resistance to medically important antimicrobial drugs used in food-producing animals. Todays draft guidance outlines the FDAs current thinking on strategies to assure that antimicrobial drugs that are important for therapeutic use in humans are used judiciously… Continue Reading
White House Launches Opt-Out Privacy Policy for Public Access to Government Web Sites
EPIC: “The White House has announced a new “Clear Notice and Personal Choice” policy for the use of Web Measurement and Customization Technologies for government web sites. The policy is remarkable in that there does not appear to be any legal basis to allow federal agencies to routinely disclose personal information of citizens to private… Continue Reading
Obama Administration Unveils National Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness
News release: “On June 22, 2010 the lead Cabinet secretaries from the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) from the U.S. Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), and Veterans Affairs (VA) joined Executive Director of the USICH Barbara Poppe to unveil and submit to… Continue Reading
Bank Regulatory Agencies Issue Guidance on Sound Incentive Compensation Policies
“The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Treasury (OCC); Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, (Board or Federal Reserve); Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC); Office of Thrift Supervision, Treasury (OTS), (collectively, the Agencies) are adopting final guidance designed to help ensure that incentive compensation policies at banking organizations do not encourage imprudent… Continue Reading
Bureau of Justice Statistics: Prisoners at Yearend 2009 – Advance Counts
Prisoners at Yearend 2009 – Advance Counts, Heather C. West, June 23, 2010. NCJ 230189 “Presents data on prisoners under jurisdiction of federal or state correctional authorities on December 31, 2009, collected from the National Prisoner Statistics series. This report compares changes in the prison population during 2009 to changes from yearend 2000 through yearend… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com: Problems with Creating a Course to Help Colleagues
Problems with Creating a Course to Help Colleagues – How many times have you wondered how to do a task or work with software? You feel wonderful once you have found a colleague who could share their “know-how” about how to complete that task more efficiently or how to implement an applications that does not… Continue Reading
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
House Financial Services Committee press release: “Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act – Create a Sound Economic Foundation to Grow Jobs, Protect Consumers,Rein in Wall Street, End Too Big to Fail, Prevent Another Financial Crisis: “Americans have faced the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Millions have lost their jobs, businesses have… Continue Reading
