July 6, 2010 | beSpacific

GPO Releases Six New Collections of Government Documents

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Jul 6, 2010

“The Government Printing Office (GPO) will release 6 new collections along with 14 additional years of the Budget into the Federal Digital System (FDsys) on Wednesday, July 7, 2010. The new collections are:

The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (1992 to 2008)
U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual (2000 and 2008)
House Practice (104th and 108th Congress)
Congressional Pictorial Directory (105th to 111th Congress)
United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions (Plum Book) (1996 to 2008)
Riddick’s Senate Procedures (101st Congress)
Additional years of the Budget of the United States Government (1996 to 2009)

New GAO Reports: Overseas Contingency Operations, Cybersecurity

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Jul 6, 2010

Overseas Contingency Operations: Comparison of the Department of Defense’s Overseas Contingency Operations Funding Requests for Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011, GAO-10-889R, July 06, 2010 Cybersecurity: Key Challenges Need to Be Addressed to Improve Research and Development, GAO-10-466, June 03, 2010 Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) Program Faces Cost, Schedule and Performance Risks, GAO-10-758R, July 02, 2010 Continue Reading

Deep Spill 2 Technical Science Plans and Supporting Explanations

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Jul 6, 2010

Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, via the Huffington Post, “A group of independent scientists, frustrated and dumbfounded by the continued lack of the most basic data about the 77-day-old BP oil disaster, has put together a crash project intended to definitively measure how much oil has spilled and where and… Continue Reading

Conference Board Employment Trends Index Signals Moderate Job Growth

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Jul 6, 2010

News release: “The Conference Board Employment Trends Index (ETI) increased again in June for the eleventh consecutive month. The index now stands at 96.7, up from Mays revised figure of 96.1. The index is up 9.8 percent from a year ago. The weak growth in private sector employment in the last two months has been… Continue Reading

Citing Conflict with Federal Law, DOJ Challenges Arizona Immigration Law

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Jul 6, 2010

News release: “The Department of Justice challenged the state of Arizonas recently passed immigration law, S.B. 1070, in federal court today. In a brief filed in the District of Arizona, the Department said S.B. 1070 unconstitutionally interferes with the federal governments authority to set and enforce immigration policy, explaining that the Constitution and federal law… Continue Reading

White House: The APs Look at Health Reform

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Jul 6, 2010

The White House Blog: The AP’s Look at Health Reform: “Today, the Associated Press takes a look at the first stages of the Affordable Care Act and finds that millions will benefit from the new protections in the new law. The story notes: The first stage of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul is expected… Continue Reading

EIA: Mexico Country Analysis Brief

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Jul 6, 2010

Mexico Country Analysis Brief June 29, 2010: “In 2009, Mexico was the seventh-largest oil producer in the world, and the third-largest in the Western Hemisphere. The oil sector is a crucial component of Mexico’s economy: while its relative importance to the general Mexican economy has declined in the long term, the oil sector still… Continue Reading

EPA Proposal Cuts Pollution from Power Plants in 31 States and D.C.

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Jul 6, 2010

News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing regulations to cut air pollution that impairs air quality and harms the health of people living downwind. The regulation will target power plant pollution that drifts across the borders of 31 eastern states and the District of Columbia. Air pollution is linked to thousands of… Continue Reading

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