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CRS – Arms Control and Nonproliferation: A Catalog of Treaties and Agreements

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CRS – Arms Control and Nonproliferation: A Catalog of Treaties and Agreements, February 20, 2013.

  • Arms control and nonproliferation efforts are two of the tools that have occasionally been used to implement U.S. national security strategy. Although some believe these tools do little to restrain the behavior of U.S. adversaries, while doing too much to restrain U.S. military forces and operations, many other analysts see them as an effective means to promote transparency, ease military planning, limit forces, and protect against uncertainty and surprise. Arms control and nonproliferation efforts have produced formal treaties and agreements, informal arrangements, and cooperative threat reduction and monitoring mechanisms. The pace of implementation for many of these agreements slowed during the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration usually preferred unilateral or ad hoc measures to formal treaties and agreements to address U.S. security concerns. But the Obama Administration resumed bilateral negotiations with Russia and pledged its support for a number of multilateral arms control and
    nonproliferation efforts.”

    • Visualizing Health Policy: The Public's Health Care Agenda for 2013

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    “This month’s JAMA/Kaiser Family Foundation infographic in the Visualizing Health Policy series takes a look at the U.S. public’s priorities for health care in 2013, including actions by state governments (such as creating a health insurance exchange or marketplace), Medicaid expansion, Medicare spending, and spending for specific types of public health activities.” Continue Reading

    Trafficking in Persons: U.S. Policy and Issues for Congress

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    Trafficking in Persons: U.S. Policy and Issues for Congress, Alison Siskin, Specialist in Immigration Policy – Liana Sun Wyler, Analyst in International Crime and Narcotics – February 19, 2013 “Trafficking in persons (TIP) for the purposes of exploitation is believed to be one of the most prolific areas of contemporary international criminal activity and is… Continue Reading

    New GAO Reports – Combating Autism Act, E-Health Records, Federal Real Property, Indian Affairs, Strategic Sourcing

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    Combating Autism Act – HHS Agencies Responded with New and Continuing Activities, Including Oversight, GAO-13-232, Feb 27, 2013 Electronic Health Records – Long History of Management Challenges Raises Concerns about VA’s and DOD’s New Approach to Sharing Health Information, GAO-13-413T, Feb 27, 2013 Federal Real Property – High-Risk Designation Remains due to Persistent Management Challenges,… Continue Reading

    Appraising our Digital Investment: Sustainability of Digitized Special Collections in ARL Libraries

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    Appraising our Digital Investment: Sustainability of Digitized Special Collections in ARL Libraries – A Report from Ithaka S+R and the Association of Research Libraries. Nancy L. Maron, Ithaka S+R, Sarah Pickle, Ithaka S+R. February 2013 “Special collections have long been a vital part of libraries, offering users access to rare or archival materials and creating… Continue Reading

    FDIC-Insured Institutions Earned $34.7 Billion in The Fourth Quarter of 2012

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    News release: “Commercial banks and savings institutions insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) reported aggregate net income of $34.7 billion in the fourth quarter of 2012, a $9.3 billion (36.9 percent) improvement from the $25.3 billion in profits the industry reported in the fourth quarter of 2011. This is the 14th quarter in… Continue Reading

    Public.Resource.Org's FedFlix – view government videotapes on the web

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    “FedFlix is a joint venture with the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) in cooperation with other government agencies including the National Archives. They send us government videotapes, we upload them to the Internet Archive, YouTube, and our own public domain stock footage video library — then we send the government back their videotapes and a… Continue Reading

    FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile

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    Quarterly Banking Profile – February 26, 2013: “The fourth quarter 2012 comprehensive summary of financial results for all FDIC-insured institutions have been released.” See also – “QBP Statistics at a Glance provides the latest quarterly and historical data for FDIC-insured institutions, the Deposit Insurance Fund, and the number of FDIC employees beginning with the June… Continue Reading

    CRS – Insourcing Functions Performed by Federal Contractors: Legal Issues

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    Insourcing Functions Performed by Federal Contractors: Legal Issues, Kate M. Manuel, Legislative Attorney – Jack Maskell, Legislative Attorney. February 22, 2013 “Recent Congresses and the Obama Administration have taken numerous actions to promote “insourcing,” or the use of government personnel to perform functions that contractors have performed on behalf of federal agencies. Among other things,… Continue Reading