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Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill: Fact Sheet on Structure, Content, and Process

Description: This report discusses the legislative branch appropriations bill, which is one of the regular appropriations bills that Congress normally enacts each year for the fiscal year beginning on October 1. The report provides budget authority, which is statutory authority to spend specified amounts of money, for expenditures of the legislative branch for the fiscal year, including salaries.
Date: December 30, 1999
Creator: Tong, Lorraine H.
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Appropriations for FY2000: District of Columbia

Description: Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, and continuing) bills, rescissions, and budget reconciliation bills. This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress passes each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on the District of Columbia.
Date: December 23, 1999
Creator: Boyd, Eugene
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Computer Security: FAA Needs to Improve Controls Over Use of Foreign Nationals to Remediate and Review Software

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) security controls over information on the foreign nationals involved in remediating and reviewing software, focusing on: (1) the extent to which foreign nationals were involved in year 2000 code remediation and subsequent code review activities at FAA; and (2) FAA's policies covering this involvement."
Date: December 23, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Foster Care: States' Early Experiences Implementing the Adoption and Safe Families Act

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (ASFA), focusing on: (1) how states have responded to ASFA regarding legal, administrative, and other changes that social workers may need to make in their day-to-day practice of handling child welfare cases; (2) the status of states' implementation of the two provisions related to making timely permanency decisions fo… more
Date: December 22, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Securities and Exchange Commission: Adoption of Amendments to the Intermarket Trading System Plan to Expand the ITS/Computer Assisted Execution System Linkage to All Listed Securities

Description: Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) new rule on amending the Intermarket Trading System Plan. GAO noted that: (1) the final rule amends the plan governing the operation of the Intermarket Trading System; and (2) SEC complied with the applicable requirements in promulgating the rule."
Date: December 22, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
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Subcontractor Complaints Concerning the D.C. Union Station Renovation Project

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information regarding work done on the Union Station Redevelopment Project by Park Woodworking, Inc., focusing on the: (1) extent of the government's liability, if any, for costs incurred for which Park was not compensated; (2) extent to which Park was not compensated for the work it did; and (3) actions taken by the Secretary of Transportation and the Departmen… more
Date: December 22, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Vaccine Injury Compensation: Program Challenged to Settle Claims Quickly and Easily

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed challenges facing the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), focusing on: (1) how long it takes to process a claim through VICP; (2) the extent to which recent changes to the program's injury table have made it easier or more difficult for petitioners to obtain compensation for vaccine-related injuries; and (3… more
Date: December 22, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Defense Transportation: Preliminary Personal Property Pilot Results Are Inconclusive

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the progress of the Department of Defense's (DOD) and Military Traffic Management Command's (MTMC) pilot program for the shipment of personal property, focusing on: (1) preliminary pilot results; (2) DOD's assessment of the industry proposal; and (3) MTMC's plan for assessing the pilot's results."
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Drug Control: Assets DOD Contributes to Reducing the Illegal Drug Supply Have Declined

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined the assets the Department of Defense (DOD) has contributed to reducing the illegal drug supply, focusing on: (1) DOD's plan for supporting U.S. counterdrug efforts and how DOD measures its effectiveness; (2) changes in the level of DOD support for counterdrug activities from fiscal year (FY) 1992 through FY 1999 and the reasons for the changes; and (3) obstacle… more
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Olympic Games: Preliminary Information on Federal Funding and Support

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the: (1) amount of federal funding and support provided to the 1984 Olympic Games held in Los Angeles, California, and the 1996 Olympic Games held in Atlanta, Georgia, and the planned amount for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah; (2) types of Olympic-related projects and activities receiving federal funding and support; (3) fe… more
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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VA Health Care: Laundry Service Operations and Costs

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Department of Veteran Affairs' (VA) laundry support services, focusing on: (1) the type and volume of laundry service VA provides; (2) how VA provides laundry services; (3) the cost VA incurs; and (4) the revenue VA generates from selling laundry services."
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Defense Transportation: Process Reengineering Could Be Enhanced by Performance Measures

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on defense transportation, focusing on the: (1) progress in reengineering defense transportation financial management processes; (2) challenges associated with implementing these reengineered processes agencywide; and (3) the extent to which the Department of Defense (DOD) is assessing the infrastructure required to support the reengineered processe… more
Date: December 20, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Environmental Protection Agency: National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System--Regulations for Revision of the Water Pollution Control Program Addressing Storm Water Discharge

Description: Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) new rule on National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System--regulations for revision of the Water Pollution Control Program addressing storm water discharges. GAO noted that: (1) the rule would expand the existing National Pollution Discharge Elimination System storm water program to address storm water disch… more
Date: December 20, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
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Military Base Closures: Lack of Data Inhibits Cost-Effectiveness of Analyses of Privatization-in Place Initiatives

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request concerning the privatization in place of select Department of Defense industrial facilities, GAO focused on: (1) determining how contractors are responding to decreasing workloads at these privatized facilities; (2) comparing the cost-effectiveness of the privatization-in-place operations to the former government-run operations; and (3) identifying the impact of privatizatio… more
Date: December 20, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Year 2000: Insurance Regulators Have Accelerated Oversight, but Some Gaps Remain

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the readiness of the insurance industry to meet the year 2000 date change, focusing on: (1) an updated assessment, as of September 30, 1999, of state regulatory oversight of the insurance industry's year 2000 preparations; and (2) the status of the industry's year 2000 readiness."
Date: December 20, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Agent Orange: Actions Needed to Improve Communications of Air Force Ranch Hand Study Data and Results

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined the conduct and findings of the Air Force's Ranch Hand study on the long-term health effects of exposure to herbicides, such as Agent Orange, in Vietnam, and assessed the study's impact on determinations of veterans' compensation, focusing on: (1) whether the study's findings and data have been properly and promptly reported and disseminated; (2) the statistica… more
Date: December 17, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Border Patrol Hiring: Despite Recent Initiatives, Fiscal Year 1999 Hiring Goal Was Not Met

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on Border Patrol hiring, focusing on: (1) the Immigration and Naturalization Service's (INS) ability to meet its 5-year goal to increase the Border Patrol's onboard strength by 1,000 agents each year from fiscal years (FY) 1997 through 2001; (2) INS' efforts to improve its recruiting efforts and hiring process; (3) changes in the years of experience… more
Date: December 17, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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District of Columbia: The District Has Not Adequately Planned for and Managed Its New Personnel and Payroll System

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the District of Columbia's management of the development of the Comprehensive Automated Personnel and Payroll System (CAPPS), focusing on whether the District has effectively planned and managed CAPPS."
Date: December 17, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Seized Drugs and Firearms: FBI Needs to Improve Certain Physical Safeguards and Strengthen Accountability

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) controls over seized drugs and firearms, focusing on whether the FBI: (1) put in place physical safeguards that if operated effectively would help control access to and use of drug and firearm evidence; and (2) maintained adequate accountability over such evidence."
Date: December 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Readiness of FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System Can Be Improved

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) efforts to ensure that its National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is year 2000 compliant."
Date: December 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Battlefield Automation: Army's Restructured Land Warrior Program Needs More Oversight

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO assessed the Army's implementation of the Land Warrior system, focusing on: (1) the status of the system; (2) whether the level of monitoring and oversight is sufficient based on projected Land Warrior development costs; (3) how the Army is ensuring that Land Warrior will be able to operate with other digitized battlefield systems; and (4) whether technical and human fa… more
Date: December 15, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Customs Service Modernization: Impact of New Trade Compliance Strategy Needs to Be Assessed

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Custom Service's Modernization efforts, focusing on: (1) the status of Customs' implementation of the informed compliance strategy; and (2) whether trade compliance under the new program had improved."
Date: December 15, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Food and Drug Administration Facility: Requirements for Building on a Floodplain Met

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the construction of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) facility for its Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) in College Park, Maryland, focusing on: (1) the General Services Administration's (GSA) authority to construct a new facility for FDA in College Park; (2) whether the requirements for building on a floodplain had been m… more
Date: December 15, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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