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Fri Jul 3

• The House Eyes the Swamp

Wed Jul 1

• Office of the NY State Comptroller: New Yorkers should know where their tax dollars are going. Open Book New York is part of State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli?s effort to promote more openness in government and give taxpayers better access to the financial workings of government.

Tue Jun 30

• CCHIT Does Not Measure Usability, Implementation Service, Product Maintenance, Technical and Application Support | EMR and HIPAA: CCHIT, in fact, recognizes some of its own limitations. Its Certification Handbook states: Our criteria at this point can only represent broad, basic capabilities, and . . . these may prove insufficient for some practice specialties, or may be inappropriate or excessive for others; . . . our criteria do not assess product usability, implementation service, product maintenance, technical and application support; and other facts.? Source: Finding a Cure: The Case for Regulation And Oversight of Electronic Health Records Systems, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 2008 vol. 22, No. 1, by Hoffman and Podgurski, p. 133-4:

Mon Jun 29

• White House Says Overhaul of Transportation System Must Wait - washingtonpost .com

Thu Jun 25

• Too Big To Fail, Politically « The Baseline Scenario: In order to get to the point where you can reform like FDR, you first have to break the political power of the big banks, and that requires substantially reducing their economic power - the moment calls more for Teddy Roosevelt-type trustbusting, and it appears that is exactly what we will not get.
• Republicans Say Fed Set Late Report of Merrill Loss: 06/24/09 - (Bloomberg) - The memo, prepared by staffers for Republican lawmakers at a House Oversight Committee hearing tomorrow, cites what it identifies as excerpts from internal Fed e-mails to support the conclusion.
• New TARP chief: Economy on mend, but vigilance needed: 06/24/09 - (Reuters) - Herb Allison told a Congressional Oversight Panel there has been progress in developing public-private partnerships to pair investors and the government in buying poorly performing assets from banks.

Wed Jun 24

• Stimulus Watch: Keeping an Eye on Economic Recovery Spending
• A "waste of time" hearing on V-22 - The DEW Line: The panel was armed with a recycled -- yet never completely refuted -- list of criticisms about the V-22's potential "idiosync racies", a blistering attack on the tiltrotor by a former Pentagon insider, and a fresh Government Accountability Office (GAO) report unveiling new details about supply chain and parts reliability problems.Both Trautman and Heckl steadfastly defended the V-22 operational performance, while acknowledging that parts reliability must improve. After three years in Iraq, the USMC plans to deploy 12 V-22s -- armed with a new all-aspect, belly-mounted gun -- to the even harsher environment in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the $93 million MV-22 survived the first round of budget-cutting in the Pentagon earlier this year, but must hurdle the Quadrennial Defense Review next year.
• How To Communicate Securely in Repressive Environments « iRevolution

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