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• in Politics
  ACORN Affiliate AHCOA Given $350,000 Funding from Government
  AHCOA, and organization with close connections with ACORN receiving federal funding, despite close ties with ACORN.
  by clairethebear88 / on Sep 20, 2011
• in Politics
  Let's Cut Money from Head Start
  Cut education to lower America's debt or poke out our own eyes...what's the difference?
  by 2sheri / on Mar 12, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “government accountability office”

 

• After months of talking, US Airways and American Airlines will clam up a bit about their merger

  
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  … US Airways Group was scheduled to make a presentation Thursday at a Deutsche Bank conference in Chicago on Thursday, but cancelled out. The reason, according to a note on US Airways website: “Due to self-imposed quiet period, US Airways will not participate in the Deutsche Bank conference.” As US ...
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• Document: Major resources needed for Obama Africa trip

  
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  When President Obama makes his first extended trip to sub-Saharan Africa this month, the federal agencies charged with keeping him safe won’t be taking any chances. Hundreds of U.S. Secret Service agents will be dispatched to secure facilities in Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania. A Navy aircraft carrier or ...
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• Document: Major resources needed for Obama Africa trip

  
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  When President Obama makes his first extended trip to sub-Saharan Africa this month, the federal agencies charged with keeping him safe won’t be taking any chances. Hundreds of U.S. Secret Service agents will be dispatched to secure facilities in Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania. A Navy aircraft carrier or ...
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• NSA Scandal Sends Sales of George Orwells 1984 Soaring on Amazon

  
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  Filed under: Amazon.com , U.S. Government Colin Dunn, Flickr.com A complementary commercial winner-and-loser pair has emerged from the disclosure of the NSAs domestic data dragnet, one that would surely bring a thin-lipped smile to the face of Eric Arthur Blair, the English Democratic Socialist who wrote as ...
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• Amazon Facing “Epic Battle” for CIA Cloud Services

  
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  International Business Machines Corp. ( NYSE:IBM ) has successfully protested a deal between Amazon.com Inc. ( NASDAQ:AMZN ) and the Central Intelligence Agency for cloud-computing services. The U.S. Government Accountability Office sided with IBM regarding Amazon’s $600 million contract with the CIA. The GAO ...
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• Immigration: Getting No RESULTS

  
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  Photo credit: Jay Mallin/ZUMA Press/Newscom Senator John Cornyn (R–TX) will propose an amendment to the Senate immigration bill entitled “Requiring Enforcement, Security and safety, & Upgrading Legitimate Trade and travel Simultaneously” (RESULTS). It should really be called the “NO-RESULTS” amendment. ...
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• GAO says “not so fast” on proposed secret Amazon-CIA cloud

  
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  Remember that proposed secure cloud that Amazon was building for the CIA but that no one would acknowledge? Well it looks like it’s on hold, because the U.S. Government Accountability Office has sided with IBM, which filed a formal protest of the awarded contract. News that the GAO was telling the CIA to re-open ...
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• Colorado’s Mesa County a National Leader in Domestic Drone Use

  
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  A county in western Colorado has embraced domestic police drones in an era when states are increasingly limiting use of the technology. Mesa County Cpl. Danny Norris launches a fixed-wing drone. The Mesa County Sheriff’s Department is one of the few departments in the U.S. authorized to maneuver unmanned ...
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• Lawmaker: ACA-mandated data hub a privacy nightmare

  
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  A data services hub mandated by the Affordable Care Act that will be used to connect state health insurance exchanges with federal agencies poses a significant threat to privacy and security, one Republican lawmaker said this week. read more
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• Deflating Hospitals’ Arguments for Obamacare Medicaid Expansion

  
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  Newscom The Obamacare Medicaid expansion debate continues in the states, and many hospitals are lobbying their state lawmakers to accept the expansion. The hospitals argue that because Obamacare cut their payments for charity care—so-called disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments—they need their states ...
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• Global Warming theory has failed all tests, so alarmists return to the ‘97% consensus’ hoax

  
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  Guest essay by Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, Weatherbell Analytics National Academies of Science defines a scientific theory as “a well-substantiated explanation of the natural world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences, and tested hypotheses.” Dr Richard Feynman, Cornell Physicist in a … Continue reading →
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• Forbes Wants ‘Intensive Oversight’ On LCS, Hearings Likely

  
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  Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.) will likely hold hearings on the state of the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship. AP Photo Congress will likely hold hearings on the state of the Littoral Combat Ship program, Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.) , the chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection forces, ...
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• Morning Bell: The IRS and Obamacare, by the Numbers

  
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  Chilling new details emerged yesterday about the IRS targeting scandal, as representatives from six conservative groups testified before Congress about the scrutiny and demands they faced from Obama administration bureaucrats. Yesterday’s testimony reminded us once again why Washington bureaucrats cannot be ...
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• As PEPFAR turns 10, we’re reading about growth, lessons, goals, and perils ahead

  
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  The 10th anniversary this week of the day Congress signed the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief into law has prompted celebration, reflection, caution, and a look at the road travelled, in What We’re Reading . . . Ten Years of Saving Millions of Lives: “Landmark scientific advances, coupled with lessons ...
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• White House: ‘Obamacare will offer more choices

  
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  Insurance companies are showing interest in providing coverage under the new health care law, a development likely to increase market competition and give uninsured people more choices than they now have, the White House said Thursday. Many of the 14 million people who currently buy their own insurance plans could ...
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• Case Studies in Federal Employees and Commercial Driver Licenses: Social Security Disability Fraud

  
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  Studies about Federal Employees and Commercial Driver Licenses: Social Security Disability Fraud The Social Security Administration has long acknowledged that its disability programs are not infallible. Sometimes the programs overpay the benefits owed; sometimes they underpay. Overall, the Social Security ...
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• The Bias in WikiLeaks Documentary ‘We Steal Secrets’

  
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  Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney’s new documentary on Julian Assange and Bradley Manning focuses “on character assassination rather than conscience” and portrays “whistleblowing as something that is deviant,” writes Jesselyn Radack of the whistle-blower protection group Government Accountability ...
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• The IRS, Obamacare, and You: The Complexity

  
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  The many federal bureaucrats working on Obamacare implementation within the IRS stand at the center of an intricate web of government and regulation that will ensnare all Americans in its grasp. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) last year released a report with a chart showing all the bureaucratic ...
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• The IRS, Obamacare, and You: The Spending

  
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  Getting the Obamacare “ train wreck ” up and running will cost the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) an estimated $881 million between 2010 and 2013, according to the Government Accountability Office. As of last June, the IRS had already requested more than half a billion dollars from an implementation “slush ...
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• Missile Defense: Another Successful U.S. Test

  
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  PASCAL SAURA/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Last Wednesday, off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii, the Navy cruiser USS Lake Erie conducted a successful test of the next-generation missile defense weapon, engaging and destroying a dummy target warhead that had separated from a short-range attacking rocket. The Standard ...
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