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- CBO News Reader 1.6.3 (Mobile)
- Congressional Budget Office CBO News Reader grabs the top stories from the CBO and delivers them to your iPhone and iTouch. The news feeds covers latest 10 documents, publications, cost estimates, and director's blog. It features a landscape viewable mode and you can share stories with friends and coworkers.
- Software downloads 2009-08-26
- Did Congressional Budget Office call health IT savings bunk?
- The headline is the Congressional Budget Office says a claim by RAND Corp. the nation will save $77 billion through heavy use of IT in health care is bunk. But that's not the whole story. The CBO, a bipartisan body which helps Congress formulate...
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- 1.4 mln Americans unemployed for long-term in January 2007
- The number of long-term unemployed stood at 1.4 mln in January 2007, up about 21% YTY and up 3% MTM. The full-year average for 2007 was 1.2 mln long-term unemployed, nearly double the reading for 2000. For all of 2007, about 17.6% of those who were unemployed had been out...
- Blog posts 2008-02-02
- Defined-Benefit Pension Plans: Current Problems and Future Challenges
- Lawmakers initially became concerned about workers' receipt of promised pension benefits after the failure of several large plans in the 1960s, which eventually led to the enactment in 1974 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ERISA. That law specified minimum standards that pension plans must meet regarding participation, accrual...
- White papers 2005-06-07
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- Reid promises 60 on Saturday
- promises, promises, promisesHe will not get his 60 on Saturday. There are enough senators with the backbone to avoid what will be an economic catastrophe for our nation.Obama created phantom jobsSomeone did bother looking into the jobs Obama claimed to save / create and found this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1t3zZBhJ7wBlog not about Obama or...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Will HIMSS vendors oppose their best customers?
- Will HIMSS vendors oppose their best customers?It's about money - not your healthThe health insurance industry had the highest median CEO compensation. Over $10 million and that's just the median. Half of those guys made more than that.One would be foolish to believe that those rather happy CEOs...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-07
- The LHC and the importance of pure research
- The LHC and the importance of pure researchFair enoughMoral hazards litter the path walked by scientists and the governments who try to fund them. Pork barrel spending can apply to research as much as public infrastructure projects. I don't think that means, however, that there aren't benefits to...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
- News to know: Dell vs. Apple; Virtualization smackdown; Cisco patch; iCal; SAP
- Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Could an OEM like Dell ever be as cool and as stylish as Apple? Next-generation Radeon GPUs to feature GDDR5 memory John Morris: Report: Nvidia GTX 200 series will be one big GPU EIC podcast: Microhoo; OLPC and...
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- U.S.-Mexico 'virtual fence' has huge software holes
- Software problems with a 28-mile pilot project send Homeland Security officials back to the drawing board--and cause a three-year delay in plans to seal off the southwestern border of the U.S. WASHINGTON--Technical problems have forced the Bush administration to retool a high-tech "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexico border and...
- News items 2008-02-28
- White House, Congress squabble over missing emails
- White House, Congress squabble over missing emailsRE: White House, Congress squabble over missing emailsThis is terrible. I think we will know what was in the emails very soon.Criminal intent or negligenceIt's one or the other. They should just pick one so we can get on with the prosecution of...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-20
- Will comparative effectiveness cut medical market?
- For those expecting medical spending to ride out the coming recession, a new Congressional Budget Office study should give you pause. The study's conclusion sounds simple and non-controversial: Better information about the costs and benefits of different treatment optionsâ€"through research on the comparative effectiveness of those optionsâ€"could...
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- The Internet must not be proprietary
- The Internet must not be proprietaryMonopolies are bad.I agree. Unfortunately the trend in North America is that choices are decreasing. This need not be a bad thing as long as the 'remaining' market players do a good job. But history has shown that once competition decreases, quality of service goes...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-24
- Obama outlines federal CTO position; Where's the power?
- Barack Obama unveiled plans for a chief technology officer, support for Net neutrality, improving education, next-generation broadband networks and more research spending. Oh yeah, and there will be more open government and feds using wikis and blogs. This agenda, outlined in this PDF, makes for good fodder....
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- Homeland Security IT chief blamed for cyberwoes
- Top Democrat suggests CIO isn't fit to keep his job amid reports of security-related "incidents." CIO points to "significant progress." WASHINGTON--In response to reports of persistent cybersecurity flaws at the Department of Homeland Security, a top congressional Democrat on Wednesday questioned whether the agency's chief information officer deserves to...
- News items 2007-06-20
- In DC, the air is thick with SOA
- I frequently take my young daughters to Washington, DC, to see and learn about people and technology that made a difference in our world -- from the Lincoln Memorial to the National Air & Space Museum to the International Spy Museum. Lately, this town has also been the...
- Blog posts 2006-09-19
- Vista's European battleground
- Vista's European battlegroundI Can Kinda Sorta Almost Agree with MS on This OneUnlike the browser, I can actually see the argument that security IS a part of the operating system and hence they are not abusing their monopoly to leverage dominance in another market (unlike the upheld conviction with respect...
- Discussion threads 2006-09-18
- Army Future Combat price tag rising
- The Army's exciting new Future Combat Systems project - which would put video cameras on soldiers' helmets and display wirelessly transmitted data to their goggles - is in big trouble, GovExec.com reports. The Congressional Budget Office figure the program could eat up as much as half of the...
- Blog posts 2006-08-07
- OMB: E-gov flailing as Congress withholds funding
- Federal agencies are failing to make progress in e-government initiatives, and Congress' unwillingness to fund the programs is a chief reason why, the Office of Management and Budget said in its Executive Branch Management Scorecard for the quarter ending March 31, 2006. Federal Computer Week reports: OMB...
- Blog posts 2006-05-05
- Planning for the unthinkable
- The following few paragraphs are excerpted from the 2005 UK Influenza Pandemic Contingency Plan: “Most experts believe that it is not a question of whether there will be another severe influenza pandemic, but when.” -- The Government’s Chief Medical Officer, 2002 The widespread occurrence – and continued spread...
- Blog posts 2006-03-27
- Federal ID cards falling seriously behind schedule
- According to plan, the federal government is supposed to convert all existing identification systems to a single, government-wide federal smartcard ID by October. The congressional Government Accounting Office finds serious problems in implemenation, though, the Post's Stephen Barr reports. The GAO reviewed the progress of six agencies in...
- Blog posts 2006-03-07
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