...adversaries in commerce rather than comrades. Congress’ apparent neglection to perform their duties of representation, oversight and legislation, is under noticeable scrutiny form the public. Whether the bureaucratic system is altogether faltering and letting down the American people is still to be argued. Obama’s limitations are resultant of a Republican Majority in both the House and the Senate. With a Democrat in executive power and a Republican run legislative body, the legislation process is far less effective than in previous years, with either side causing restrictions for the other. Only 115 bills have been able to pass through and become enacted laws within the last year. In comparison to 385 when there was a Democratic majority in the House. In perspective, triple the amount of bills passed through the 111th congress than through the current one. One could argue that bills do not need to be passed through congress at a substantial rate, however this is congresses way of representing the wishes of their people and therefore an extremely important duty to perform. The conflict between the Republicans and Obama is continual as he accuses them of hindering his executive abilities and they accuse him of acting unconstitutional as a result. The sour relations between the two parties is growing and a lack of communication and discussion will lead to further congressional inefficiency. The constant attacks on Obama reflect in the efforts to repeal ObamaCare and declare his actions...
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...Morris W. Ricks Dr. Mindel Speech 101.102 Due Date: June 28, 2011 Persuasive Speech Outline: The USA PATRIOT ACT I. Introduction A. What if your home was raided by the police, and when you asked to see a warrant, an officer handed you a letter signed by the desk sergeant? What if the same officer informed you that he’s taking your cellular phone, because your calls had been monitored? He arrests you, never informs you of the charge, and if released, tells you that you can’t discuss the incident with anyone? You being a well versed citizen of your constitutional rights under the law begin to inform the officer of the first ten amendments, called the Bill of Rights, and your rights have been violated. What if the officer told you that two weeks prior the city legislators got together, and decided that catching criminals has become too difficult of a task? So, they got rid of the first, fourth, fifth, and tenth amendments of the Constitution and now citizens only have six? Well, you would probably advise the officer to zealously avoid the narcotics section of the evidence room. However, what if I told you that this ridiculous scenario I just described is in fact current law at a Federal level, and if all of us as citizens continue to turn a blind eye to the impact this law is having on our way of life, we will watch the very rights I have previously stated slowly, but assuredly dissipate. B. The first article of the U.S Military Code...
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...Idaho This year the federal government spent a billion dollars fighting wild fires. The Prepare Act, currently under consideration in Congress, would give funds to local governments for wild fire mitigation. FEMA would provide oversight for any funds directed to the states as the recent fire season was considered a disaster. Prepare, Ready, Equip, and Prevent Areas at Risk of Emergency Wildfires Act of 2013 or the PREPARE Act of 2013, was authored in part by Idaho’s own Senator Crapo and Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado (The Library of Congress, S.1428, .IS, 2013-2014). The federal government is aware that our forests have been mismanaged and this act, in a small way, helps to make up for previous management practices. It does not do enough to mitigate the effects of pests and wildfires that endanger our forests in Idaho. Some of you may know a little about the ownership of federal lands in Idaho. This paper will help you to learn more about this. Some of you may know a lot about ownership of federal lands in Idaho. Perhaps you know someone personally who has dealt with land issues in Idaho. Hopefully, you will learn something new about this topic that persuade you that the State of Idaho needs to assume ownership and oversight of these public lands. I was employed by the timber industry for several years and spent time lobbying on their behalf to keep public lands open for logging. I have researched and read many articles on the subject of transferring...
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...Federal Government Exam 1 Review: The first exam will consist of questions generated from the following review sheet. Make sure you understand each of these topics before proceeding to the test. The exam will be timed so you will not have the ability to peruse your notes or retake the exam. The exam itself will consist of 30 multiple choice questions and you will have 35 minutes to complete the exam. Federalism: The Basic elements of a Federal system of government (i.e. how is it structured/how power is shared) • Layers of gov • Equal power • Distinct powers Powers of the federal government: delegated powers, implied powers (necessary and proper clause), and concurrent powers. • Delegated Powers: (expressed/enumerated powers) powers given to the federal government directly by the constitution. Some most important delegated powers are: the authority to tax, regulated interstate commerce, authority to declare war, and grants the president role of commander and chief of the military • Implied Powers: Powers not expressed in the constitution, but that can be inferred. “Necessary and proper clause” • Concurrent powers: powers shared by both levels of government. Ex: Taxes, roads, elections, commerce, establishing courts and a judicial system • Reserved powers: powers not assigned by the constitution to the national government but left to the states or the people. Guaranteed by the 10th amendment. Include “police power”-health and public...
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...Food Marketing Policy Issue Paper Food Marketing Policy Issue Papers address particular policy or marketing issues in a non-technical manner. They summarize research results and provide insights for users outside the research community. Single copies are available at no charge. The last page lists all Food Policy Issue Papers to date, and describes other publication series available from the Food Marketing Policy Center. Tel (860) 486-1927 Fax (860) 486-2461 email: fmpc@canr1.cag.uconn.edu http://vm.uconn.edu/~wwware/ fmktc.html No. 17 October 1998 Jawboning Cereal: The Campaign to Lower Cereal Prices by Ronald W. Cotterill Food Marketing Policy Center University of Connecticut Food Marketing Policy Center, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Connecticut, 1376 Storrs Road, U-21, Storrs, CT 06269-4021 Jawboning Cereal: The Campaign to Lower Cereal Prices by Ronald W. Cotterill Abstract This article introduces the Forum by explaining the sequence of events related to the jawboning campaign and subsequent reductions in cereal prices. It also introduces the main issues on the vigor of competition and pricing that are analyzed in subsequent papers. Jawboning as a public policy strategy is assessed and found useful in certain circumstances such as those in the breakfast cereal industry in the mid 1990’s. The jawboning campaign was effective in advancing price competition in an industry that successfully resisted repeated antitrust...
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...Republic of the Philippines SUPREME COURT Manila EN BANC G.R. No. 180643 September 4, 2008 competing interests in the case at bar are the claim of executive privilege by the President, on the one hand, and the respondent Senate Committees’ assertion of their power to conduct legislative inquiries, on the other. The particular facts and circumstances of the present case, stripped of the politically and emotionally charged rhetoric from both sides and viewed in the light of settled constitutional and legal doctrines, plainly lead to the conclusion that the claim of executive privilege must be upheld. Assailed in this motion for reconsideration is our Decision dated March 25, 2008 (the "Decision"), granting the petition for certiorari filed by petitioner Romulo L. Neri against the respondent Senate Committees on Accountability of Public Officers and Investigations, 1 Trade and Commerce,2 and National Defense and Security (collectively the "respondent Committees"). 3 A brief review of the facts is imperative. ROMULO L. NERI, petitioner, vs. SENATE COMMITTEE ON ACCOUNTABILITY OF PUBLIC OFFICERS AND INVESTIGATIONS, SENATE COMMITTEE ON TRADE AND COMMERCE, AND SENATE COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL DEFENSE AND SECURITY, respondents. RESOLUTION LEONARDO-DE CASTRO, J.: Executive privilege is not a personal privilege, but one that adheres to the Office of the President. It exists to protect public interest, not to benefit a particular public official. Its purpose, among others, is to assure...
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...AFGE 2013 Issue Papers Table of Contents Another Manufactured Crisis: What’s Next in the Fiscal Showdown………1 Federal Pay……………………………………………………………….…..…..4 Federal Employees’ Health Benefits Program……………………………….15 Official Time for Federal Employee Union Representatives………….........22 Arbitrary Cuts in Civil Servants………………………………………………..26 Sourcing: Complying with the Law……………………………………….......31 Capping Taxpayer-Funded Service Contractor Compensation……………43 Transportation Security Administration and TSOs…………………………..46 Domestic Partnership Benefits……………………………..………………….49 Employment Non-Discrimination Act……………………………………..…..55 Paid Parental Leave………………………………………………..…………..57 One America, Many Voices Act………………………………………….…....60 Department of Veterans Affairs…………………………………..……………62 Department of Defense……………………………...……….………………...71 Federal Prisons………………………………………………………………….90 Social Security Administration ……………………………………….…...…103 National Guard/Reserve Technicians ………………………...……….……108 D.C. Workers’ Issues …………………...……………………………..…..…117 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. ……………………..……...120 Another Manufactured Crisis: What’s Next in the Fiscal Showdown? Background At the beginning of January, President Obama signed a tax deal that restored higher Clinton-era rates to those making over $450,000, and funded an extension of unemployment insurance benefits to the long-term unemployed, extended for another year the $240 monthly transit subsidy, but did not...
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...FINANIAL CRISIS 2008 AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE The business world is questioning whether Corporate Governance has become a mere catchphrase, divorced from the contentious problems it is supposed to solve… MEMBERS: AYUSH KUMAR-030 NIPEKSH I MAHAJAN-082 PRABHAV MISHRA-0 PRATEEK KUMAR-096 VAIBHAV JAIN-164 “Why should a financial engineer be paid four, four times... to a hundred times more than the real engineer? A real engineer build bridges, a financial engineer build, build dreams. And when those dream turn out to be nightmares, other people pay for it.” - Andrew Sheng “Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though the system has given men the greatest material comforts” - Ayn Rand “In fact, there is ultimately a limit to how much regulation can do. In the final analysis, you could write all the rules you want, but there has to be a philosophy of ethical behaviour that comes from human beings operating in a professional way” – William H. Donaldson, CFA “The global crisis was caused by “the over-50s not knowing what the under-30’s were doing” – Johann Rupert, Remgro Chairman “The first casualty of a downturn is truth” - Financial Times Columnist 30 Sept 2008 Introduction- The banking crisis was triggered by largely unregulated trading of complex financial instruments, including mortgaged-backed...
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...Western Michigan University ScholarWorks at WMU Dissertations Graduate College 8-1-2012 Deepwater, Deep Ties, Deep Trouble: A StateCorporate Environmental Crime Analysis of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Elizabeth A. Bradshaw Western Michigan University, brads2ea@cmich.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/dissertations Recommended Citation Bradshaw, Elizabeth A., "Deepwater, Deep Ties, Deep Trouble: A State-Corporate Environmental Crime Analysis of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill" (2012). Dissertations. Paper 53. This Dissertation-Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate College at ScholarWorks at WMU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at WMU. For more information, please contact maira.bundza@wmich.edu. DEEPWATER, DEEP TIES, DEEP TROUBLE: A STATE-CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME ANALYSIS OF THE 2010 GULF OF MEXICO OIL SPILL by Elizabeth A. Bradshaw A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of The Graduate College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Sociology Advisor: Ronald C. Kramer, Ph.D. Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, Michigan August 2012 THE GRADUATE COLLEGE WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN June 29, 2012 Date WE HEREBY APPROVE THE DISSERTATION SUBMITTED BY Elizabeth A. Bradshaw ENTITLED Deepwater, Deep Ties, Deep Trouble: A State-Corporate Environmental...
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...period of time after the coyote leaves solid ground he is suspended and tries by furious windmilling to stay suspended but eventually plummets to the ground. In Enron's case the magical period of suspension after it had left the solid ground of economically profitable operation lasted for years. The History of the Natural Gas Industry Natural gas, primarily methane, was originally an unwanted byproduct of petroleum extraction. For many years when an oil well vented gas it was simply flared; i.e., burned off. But people eventually learned the uses and virtues of natural gas and built pipelines to convey it to the cities where it took the place of coal gas for residential and industrial lighting and heating. The market for natural gas has three major types of economic units: 1. Suppliers, 2. Customers, 3. Pipeline companies. In a competitive market the fluctuations in the supply of natural gas creates fluctuations in the spot market price of gas. Such uncertainty in the price of gas creates problems for the suppliers and customers. The suppliers who are making decisions about exploration for natural gas worry that they may invest in development of fields only to find a downturn in the market price which may result in losses. Customers, such as electrical power generators,...
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...USING THE EARNED VALUE COST MANAGEMENT REPORT TO EVALUATE THE CONTRACTOR'S ESTIMATE AT COMPLETION David S. Christensen, Ph.D. College of Business Southern Utah University 351 West, Center Street Cedar City, UT 84720 Phone: (435)865-8058 Email: Christensend@suu.edu Published in Acquisition Review Quarterly (Summer 1999) BIOGRAPHY David S. Christensen is an Associate Professor of Accounting at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah. After receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska in 1987, he joined the faculty at the Air Force Institute of Technology, where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in earned value cost management for over ten years. David is a CPA, CMA, CGFM, and CCE/A, and is active in several professional associations, including the Society of Cost Estimating and Analysis, the American Accounting Association, and the Institute of Management Accounting. Presently, David serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Cost Analysis. He has published extensively in the area of earned value cost management in Acquisition Review Quarterly, Project Management Journal, National Contract Management Journal, Journal of Parametrics, National Estimator, and the Journal of Cost Analysis. 2 USING THE EARNED VALUE COST MANAGEMENT REPORT TO EVALUATE THE CONTRACTOR'S ESTIMATE AT COMPLETION ABSTRACT The earned value cost management report is a valuable management tool for project managers. Its long association with earned value management...
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...WorldCom: The Scandal that Shocked the Nation By: Eric Dixon FSAAC_624_OL2 November 23, 2011 Professor Stephen Oliner Table of Contents Executive Summary…………………………………………………………Page 2 Corporate Environment……………………………………………………...Page 4 Types of Fraud Committed.…………………………………………………Page 5 Board of Directors Responsibility…………………………………………...Page 6 Internal Auditors Responsibility…………………………………………….Page 7 Conflicts of Interest………………………………………………………….Page 7 Collusion…………………………………………………………………….Page 8 Complicity of Auditors and Investment bankers …………………………...Page 9 Sarbanes Oxley-Act……………………………………………………….....Page 9 Recommendations……………………………………………………………Page 10 Re-establishing WorldCom………………………………………………….Page 11 Glossary………………………………………………………………...……Page 12 Appendix…………………………………………………………………….Page 13 Web Site Resource Summary……………………………………………......Page 14 Executive Summary In the late 1990’s WorldCom was regarded as one of the largest long distance phone companies. WorldCom stormed and dominated the telecommunication industry by completing sixty-five significant mergers and acquisitions. These mergers put WorldCom in debt of $41 billion dollars, which the Board of Directors was unaware of. By obtaining these companies WorldCom made themselves a favorite on Wall Street and to numerous investment bankers. Management didn’t know the complications that would arise when trying to integrate several different billing systems. Chief Executive Officer Mr. Ebbers kept...
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...Kayla Shelton Professor Lodge UNIV 200 14 April 2011 Ensuring Consumer Safety: Toward Redefining the U.S. Food and Drug Administration The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the regulation and supervision of foods, medical devices, and prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceutical drugs (medications). The FDA regulates and supervises medical devices and drugs throughout their development, manufacturing, process of approval, marketing, and post marketing stages. When a drug or medical device is granted approval by the FDA, it will shortly become marketed in the United States and available for public use. The FDA responsibility during this post marketing stage consists of ensuring product safety and efficacy through continued research and testing of the product. If the FDA discovers safety or efficacy problems with the medical device or drug, they are also responsible for removing the product off the market and informing the public of their findings. The FDA is a very powerful United States government agency, who plays a crucial role in American citizen’s health and well-being. Through their legal authority established by the United States government, the FDA is chiefly responsible for ensuring the American public’s health and safety in the foods we eat, to the medicines we take to cure a common cold, to the treatment choices...
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...***AFF*** ***1AC*** Inherency – 1AC Contention one: Inherency The new FAA bill cut funding for the AIP, which will cripple our airport infrastructure – rapid investment is critical PRINCIPATO ‘12 - president, Airports Council International-North America; M.A. in International Relations from University of Chicago; International Trade and Transportation specialist, Hunton & Williams (Greg, “Why we should invest today in 'Airports Inc.'”. March. http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/labor/218525-faa-why-we-should-invest-today-in-airports-inc) With the latest Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) forecast predicting a doubling of passengers and cargo by 2030, the current funding system is not up to the job of ensuring airports will have the infrastructure they need to handle such dramatic increases in traffic. This will have far-reaching consequences. Commercial airports are powerful economic engines, generating 10.5 million jobs and $1.2 trillion for the U.S. economy, according to a new Airports Council International-North America study. Across the country, workers and businesses count on local airports to attract investment and move people and goods around the world. Since 2001, the total number of jobs associated with airports has increased by more than 50 percent. Despite unprecedented growth and clear evidence of the economic benefits of infrastructure investments, airports expect to have $80 billion in unmet needs through 2015 because of the flawed system...
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...Genetic Engineering Wesley Rupe, Jawad Rana, Layli Stroia, Charles Taiwo, Mariella Velasquez, Mark Young DeVry University Genetic Engineering Table of contents Title page ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 1 Table of contents ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 2 1. A brief description of the technology and an explanation of the associated science (Mariella Velasquez) ………………………………………………..……………. 3 2. Psychological considerations and sociological effects (Mariella Velasquez) …………. 3 3. The historical development and context of the technology (Wesley Rupe) …………. 13 4. Political and legal influences (Mark Young) (Not Complete) 5. Economic questions and considerations (Jawad Rana)………………………………….…… 21 6. The technology in its cultural context, media influence (Charles Taiwo) (Not Complete) 7. Implications for the environment (Charles Taiwo) (Not Complete) 8. Moral and ethical implications (Layli Stroia) ……………………………………………………..… 30 Outline A brief description of the technology and an explanation of the associated science Definition: What is Genetic Engineering? Genetic engineering (GE) is the process of manipulation of an organism genome to create a new DNA. The new DNA might be implanted in a totally different DNA species. It is widely used to create hybrids (some species are not able to naturally breed), correct genetic flows in any type of being. It is applied in...
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