Terrorist Assets Report Calendar Year 2007: Sixteenth Annual Report to Congress on Assets in the United States of Terrorist Countries and International Terrorism Program Designees
"Section 304 of Public Law 102-138, as amended by Public Law 103-236 (22
U.S.C. § 2656g) (hereinafter referred to as Section 304) (Tab 1), requires the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Attorney General and appropriate investigative agencies, to provide an annual report to the Congress concerning the nature and extent of assets held in the United States by terrorism-supporting countries and organizations engaged in international terrorism. The Department of the Treasury submitted its first Terrorist Assets Report to the Congress in April 1993. The current report, covering calendar year 2007, is the sixteenth successive Terrorist Assets Report.

The Terrorist Assets Report, which is prepared by OFAC based on information
reported to it by other Government agencies and non-government parties, is submitted to the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Finance in the Senate and to the Committee on International Relations and the Committee on Ways and Means in the House of Representatives."

Grantee Communications Kit: Your Guide to Communicating with the Press, Your Colleagues and the IMLS Office of Public and Legilsative Affairs.
U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2008
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Provides information for grant recipients on communicating the grant award to the press and followup to the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

The Cyclically Adjusted and Standardized Budget Measures
"In September 2008, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its most recent baseline projections of federal revenues, outlays, and budget balances for the
next 10 years. Those projections are subject to procedures under which CBO assumes the continuation of current laws and policies affecting taxes and mandatory programs
and extrapolates the growth of discretionary spending by using projected rates of inflation. According to CBO’s projections, under current tax and spending policies, the budget deficit would increase from $161 billion in 2007 to $407 billion in 2008 and $438 billion in 2009. Measured relative to the size of the economy—that is, as a
percentage of gross domestic product, or GDP—the deficit would be 2.9 percent of GDP in 2008 and 3.0 percent in 2009."

Economic Slowdown: Issues and Policies
"Recent policies have sought to contain damages spilling over from housing and
financial markets to the broader economy. These policies include monetary policy,
which is the responsibility of the Federal Reserve, and fiscal policy. Legislators and the President adopted an economic stimulus package (P.L. 110-185) on February
13. Another stimulus package is under consideration. Over the past few months, the
government has also intervened in specific financial markets, including acquisition
of troubled firms. Administration officials. with bipartisan support of Congressional
leaders, proposed a massive intervention in financial markets. This intervention
goes beyond normal monetary policy and involves Congressional consideration. The
plan, H.R. 3997, proposes authority to purchase $700 billion in assets..."

Income and Poverty Among Older Americans in 2007
"Older Americans are an economically diverse group. In 2007, the median
income of individuals aged 65 and older was $17,382 but incomes varied widely
around this average. One-fourth of Americans 65 or older had incomes of less than
$10,722 in 2007, while another one-fourth had incomes of $32,160 or more. As
Congress considers reforms to Social Security and the laws governing pensions and
retirement savings plans, it may be helpful to examine how changes to one income
source would affect each of the others, and thus the total income of older Americans..."

Hearing on Causes and Effects of the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
"The Committee held a hearing to examine the regulatory mistakes and financial excesses that led to the bankruptcy filing by Lehman Brothers. The hearing was held at 10:00 a.m. on October 6, 2008, in Rayburn House Office Building room 2154."

Examining the Causes of the Credit Crisis of 2008, Minority Staff Analysis[Republicans]
"In the midst of the most serious financial crisis in a generation, some claim that deregulation is entirely to blame. This is simply not true and more importantly serves to grossly oversimplify a problem whose roots run deep and involve myriad actors and issues. The simple truth is that many share the blame, and pointing to just one person or organization does a disservice to the American people.

In a time of crisis, the American people cannot afford the same old partisan finger pointing; they need and deserve real, non-partisan oversight. We need a series of hearings that will focus on the root causes and how we can fix a system in order to avoid financial meltdowns in the future. This minority staff analysis attempts to objectively explore the causes of the financial crisis we are in and how companies like Lehman Brothers and AIG contributed to this crisis..."

National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change
"This National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change provides an overview of the likely effects of climate change on water resources and the nation’s clean water and safe drinking water programs. This final strategy also describes 40 specific actions the National Water Program intends to take to adapt program implementation in light of climate change."

Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
Complete text of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

SECTION-BY-SECTION ANALYSIS OF THE LEGISLATION

Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, January - March 2008
"This release includes estimates for enrollment in high deductible health plans (HDHPs) and consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) that combine a HDHP with a health savings account, as well as estimates of participation in flexible spending account (FSA) arrangements for medical expenses.

From January - March 2008, 20.3% of persons under 65 years of age with private health insurance were enrolled in a HDHP, 5.3% were enrolled in a CDHP, and 17.2% were in a family with a FSA for medical expenses.

From January - March 2008, 42.6 million persons of all ages (14.3%) were uninsured at the time of the interview, 55.3 million (18.5%) had been uninsured for at least part of the year prior to the interview, and 31.2 million (10.5%) had been uninsured for more than a year at the time of the interview.

From January - March 2008, the percentage of children under the age of 18 years who were uninsured at the time of the interview was 8.5%

From January - March 2008, more than 66% of unemployed adults aged 18-64 years and more than 22% of employed adults in this age group had been uninsured for at least part of the past year. More than 40% of unemployed adults aged 18-64 years and more than 13% of employed adults in this age group had been uninsured for more than a year."

Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq
"The strategic goal of the United States in Iraq remains a unified, democratic, and federal Iraq that can govern, defend, and sustain itself and is an ally in the war on terror. The United States is pursuing this goal along political, security, economic, diplomatic, and rule of law lines of operation. This report measures progress toward achieving this goal during June through August 2008 and highlights challenges to Iraqi and Coalition efforts to achieve their mutual objectives...:

FEDERAL IMMIGRATION ARRESTS SURPASS DRUG ARRESTS
"Immigration and drug arrests comprised more than half of the 140,200 federal suspects arrested and booked by the U.S. Marshals in 2005, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. Material witness (20 percent), immigration (15 percent) and weapons (11 percent) arrests increased at the fastest annual rate from 1995 to 2005. In 2005, immigration (27 percent) was the most prevalent arrest offense followed by drug (24 percent) and supervision violations (17 percent)..."

Global Legal Monitor
"The Global Legal Monitor is an online publication from the Law Library of Congress covering legal news and developments worldwide. It is updated frequently and draws on information from the Global Legal Information Network, official national legal publications, and reliable press sources. You can search previous news by searching the archive."

Public Health And Environmental Radiation Protection Standards For Yucca
"EPA has established radiation standards for the proposed spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste disposal facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

EPA is required to set standards consistent with the findings and recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and satisfy a July 2004 court decision to extend the standards' duration. The Yucca Mountain standards are in line with approaches used in the international radioactive waste management community. The final standards will:

* Retain the dose limit of 15 millirem per year for the first 10,000 years after disposal;
* Establish a dose limit of 100 millirem annual exposure per year between 10,000 years and 1 million years;
* Require the Department of Energy (DOE) to consider the effects of climate change, earthquakes, volcanoes, and corrosion of the waste packages to safely contain the waste during the 1 million-year period; and
* Be consistent with the recommendations of the NAS by establishing a radiological protection standard for this facility at the time of peak dose up to 1 million years after disposal."

FBI’s Complete File on Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The FBI's entire main (Headquarters) file on Martin Luther King, Jr. All 121 parts - 16,600+ pages - posted online for the first time, by The Memory Hole."