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Corporate Income Tax

Product Description: Congress and the administration continue to express interest in reforming the U.S. corporate income tax and the rate at which U.S. corporations' income is taxed. Currently, the top statutory corporate income tax rate is 35 percent...read more

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9781532747908 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 14, 2016, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Congress and the administration continue to express interest in reforming the U.

Defense Logistics: Marine Corps and Army Reset Liability Estimates

Product Description: Since 2001, the Marine Corps and Army have spent billions of dollars to reset equipment, including equipment returning from operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Reset refers to the repair, recapitalization, or replacement of equipment...read more

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9781514699270 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 25, 2015, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Since 2001, the Marine Corps and Army have spent billions of dollars to reset equipment, including equipment returning from operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Contingent Workforce: Size, Characteristics, Earnings, and Benefits

Product Description: Millions of workers do not have standard work arrangementsâpermanent jobs with a traditional employer-employee relationship. Rather, they are in temporary or other non-standard employment arrangements where they may not receive retirement and health benefits, or safeguards such as job-protected leave under the Family Medical Leave Act, even if they have a traditional employer-employee relationship...read more

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9781514360859 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 16, 2015, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Millions of workers do not have standard work arrangementsâpermanent jobs with a traditional employer-employee relationship.

Dental Services: Information on Coverage, Payments, and Fee Variation

Product Description: High rates of dental disease remain prevalent across the nation, especially in vulnerable and underserved populations. According to national surveys, 42 percent of adults with tooth or mouth problems did not see a dentist in 2008 because they did not have dental insurance or could not afford the out-of-pocket payments, and in 2011, 4 million children did not obtain needed dental care because their families could not afford it...read more

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9781514373279 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 16, 2015, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: High rates of dental disease remain prevalent across the nation, especially in vulnerable and underserved populations.

Report to Congressional Requesters: Climate Change

Product Description: Policymakers are increasingly viewing adaptation as a risk management strategy to protect vulnerable infrastructure that might be affected by changes in the climate. While adaptation measuresâsuch as raising river or coastal dikes to protect infrastructure from sea level rise, building higher bridges, or increasing the capacity of stormwater systemsâmay be costly, there is a growing recognition that the cost of inaction could be greater...read more

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9781503229273 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 3, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Policymakers are increasingly viewing adaptation as a risk management strategy to protect vulnerable infrastructure that might be affected by changes in the climate.

Report to Congressional Committees: Capital Purchase Program

Product Description: Created in 2008, CPP was the primary initiative under TARP to help stabilize the financial markets and banking system by providing capital to qualifying regulated financial institutions through the purchase of senior preferred shares and subordinated debt...read more

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9781503229112 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 3, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Created in 2008, CPP was the primary initiative under TARP to help stabilize the financial markets and banking system by providing capital to qualifying regulated financial institutions through the purchase of senior preferred shares and subordinated debt.

Report to Congressional Committees: Missile Defense

Product Description: Since 2002 MDA has spent approximately $90billion to provide protection from enemy ballistic missiles by developing battle management systems, sensors that identify incoming threats, and missles to intercept them MDA plans to spend about $8billion per year through 2017...read more

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9781503225329 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 3, 2015, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Since 2002 MDA has spent approximately $90billion to provide protection from enemy ballistic missiles by developing battle management systems, sensors that identify incoming threats, and missles to intercept them MDA plans to spend about $8billion per year through 2017.

Report to Congressional Requesters: President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief

Product Description: PEPFAR, first authorized in 2003, has supported significant advances in HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care in more than 30 countries. In reauthorizing the program in 2008, Congress directed OGAC to continue to expand the number of people receiving care and treatment through PEPFAR while also making it a major policy goal to help partner countries develop independent sustainable HIV programs...read more

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9781503229242 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 3, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: PEPFAR, first authorized in 2003, has supported significant advances in HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care in more than 30 countries.

Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs, Committee on Foreign Relations, U.s. Senate: Pakistan

Product Description: Pakistan is central to U.S. efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al Qaeda and deny its resurgence in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. The United States has sought to secure these interests through counterterrorism and counterinsurgency cooperation with Pakistan as well as through a long-term partnership anchored, in part, by civilian and military assistance...read more

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9781503229051 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 3, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Pakistan is central to U.

Report to Congressional Committees: Transportation Worker Identification Credential

Product Description: Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Aviation and Transportation Security Act (ATSA) was enacted in November 2001 and required TSA to work with airport operators to strengthen access controls to secure areas, and to consider using biometric access control systems, or similar technologies, to verify the identity of individuals who seek to enter a secure airport area...read more

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9781503229181 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 3, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Aviation and Transportation Security Act (ATSA) was enacted in November 2001 and required TSA to work with airport operators to strengthen access controls to secure areas, and to consider using biometric access control systems, or similar technologies, to verify the identity of individuals who seek to enter a secure airport area.

Report to Congressional Requesters: Data Center Consolidation

Product Description: Over the last 15 years, the federal governmentâs increasing demand for IT has led to a dramatic rise in the number of federal data centers and a corresponding increase in operational costs. According to OMB, the federal government had 432 data centers in 1998 and more than 1,100 in 2009...read more

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9781503229297 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 3, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Over the last 15 years, the federal governmentâs increasing demand for IT has led to a dramatic rise in the number of federal data centers and a corresponding increase in operational costs.

Report to Congressional Committees: Defense Infrastructure

Product Description: Since 1988, DOD has relied on the BRAC process as an important means of reducing excess infrastructure and realigning bases to meet changing force structure needs. The 2005 BRAC round was the fifth round of base closures and realignments undertaken by DOD since 1988, and it was the biggest, most complex, and costliest BRAC round ever...read more

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9781503229389 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 3, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Since 1988, DOD has relied on the BRAC process as an important means of reducing excess infrastructure and realigning bases to meet changing force structure needs.

Noaa: Initial Response to Post-storm Assessment Requirements

Product Description: After a hurricane, assessing damage caused by different perils, such as high winds or flooding, is especially challenging when all that is left after the storm is a structureâs foundation. For these properties, there may not be enough physical evidence to determine the extent to which damage was caused by wind versus flooding...read more

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9781505635690 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 2, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: After a hurricane, assessing damage caused by different perils, such as high winds or flooding, is especially challenging when all that is left after the storm is a structureâs foundation.

FAA Oversight of Procedures and Technologies Toprevent and Mitigate the Effects of Dense, Continuous Smoke in the Cockpit

Product Description: The FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 directed the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study on the effectiveness of the Federal Aviation Administrationâs (FAA) oversight of the use of new technologies to prevent or mitigate the effects of dense, continuous smoke in the cockpit of commercial aircraft...read more

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9781505635539 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 2, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: The FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 directed the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study on the effectiveness of the Federal Aviation Administrationâs (FAA) oversight of the use of new technologies to prevent or mitigate the effects of dense, continuous smoke in the cockpit of commercial aircraft.

Defense Headquarters: Dod Needs to Reassess Options for Permanent Location of U.s. Africa Command

Product Description: GAO has issued several reports on the establishment of AFRICOM and its components. In 2008, we testified that DOD had made progress in transferring activities, staffing the command, and establishing an interim headquarters for AFRICOM but had not yet fully estimated the additional costs of establishing and operating the command...read more

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9781503226869 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 31, 2014, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: GAO has issued several reports on the establishment of AFRICOM and its components.

Agricultural Trade: Usda Is Monitoring Market Development Programs As Required but Could Improve Analysis of Impact

Product Description: FAS administers USDAâs five market development programs on behalf of the Commodity Credit Corporation, which is owned and operated by the U.S. government. The programs provide matching funds to support U.S. industry efforts to build, maintain, and expand commercial overseas markets for U...read more

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9781503224049 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 31, 2014, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: FAS administers USDAâs five market development programs on behalf of the Commodity Credit Corporation, which is owned and operated by the U.

Navy Shipbuilding: Opportunities Exist to Improve Practices Affecting Quality

Product Description: The Navy expects to spend about $15 billion per year to provide its fleet with the most advanced ships to support natural defense and military strategies. Problems with recently delivered ships have focused attention on quality issues.

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9781502986337 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 31, 2014, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: The Navy expects to spend about $15 billion per year to provide its fleet with the most advanced ships to support natural defense and military strategies.

Operational Contract Support Management and Oversight Improvements Needed in Afghanistan

Product Description: GAO recommendations for enhancing the current strategy for managing and overseeing contracts in contingency areas such as Afghanistan.

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9781492295181 | Createspace Independent Pub, August 30, 2013, cover price $11.75 | About this edition: GAO recommendations for enhancing the current strategy for managing and overseeing contracts in contingency areas such as Afghanistan.

Workplace Safety and Health: Osha Can Better Respond to State-run Programs Facing Challenges

Product Description: OSHA is generally responsible for setting and enforcing occupational safety and health standards in the nationâs workplaces. OSHA carries out enforcement directly in 34 states and territories, while the remaining 22 have chosen to administer their own enforcement programs (state-run programs) under plans approved by OSHA...read more

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9781491007426 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 15, 2013, cover price $14.79 | About this edition: OSHA is generally responsible for setting and enforcing occupational safety and health standards in the nationâs workplaces.

Wind Energy: Additional Actions Could Help Ensure Effective Use of Federal Financial Support

Product Description: Wind energy has been the fastest growing source of U.S. electric power generation in recent years. The increase in federal funding for wind technologies and involvement of multiple agencies has raised questions about fragmented, overlapping, or duplicative federal support...read more

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9781491007501 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 15, 2013, cover price $20.99 | About this edition: Wind energy has been the fastest growing source of U.

Va Construction: Additional Actions Needed to Decrease Delays and Lower Costs of Major Medical-facility Projects

Product Description: The VA operates one of the nationâs largest health care delivery systems. Charged with addressing the issues of increasing medical demands and aging medical facilities, VA currently manages the construction of 50 major medical-facility projects, each costing at least $10 million, some in the hundreds of millions of dollars...read more

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9781491007808 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 15, 2013, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The VA operates one of the nationâs largest health care delivery systems.

Offshore Tax Evasion: IRS Has Collected Billions of Dollars, but May Be Missing Continued Evasion

Product Description: Tax evasion by individuals with unreported offshore financial accounts was estimated by one IRS commissioner to be several tens of billions of dollars, but no precise figure exists. IRS has operated four offshore programs since 2003 that offered incentives for taxpayers to disclose their offshore accounts and pay delinquent taxes, interest, and penalties...read more

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9781491007952 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 15, 2013, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Tax evasion by individuals with unreported offshore financial accounts was estimated by one IRS commissioner to be several tens of billions of dollars, but no precise figure exists.

Va Health Care: Management and Oversight of Fee Basis Care Need Improvement

Product Description: While VA treats the majority of veterans in VA-operated facilities, in some instances it must obtain the services of non-VA providers to ensure that veterans are provided timely and accessible care. These non-VA providers are commonly reimbursed by VA using a fee-for-service arrangement known as fee basis care...read more

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9781491007693 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 15, 2013, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: While VA treats the majority of veterans in VA-operated facilities, in some instances it must obtain the services of non-VA providers to ensure that veterans are provided timely and accessible care.

Va Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Program: Improved Oversight of Independent Living Services and Supports Is Needed

Product Description: The IL âtrackââone of five tracks within VAâs VR&E programâprovides a range of benefits to help veterans with service-connected disabilities live independently when employment is not considered feasible at the time they enter the VR&E program...read more

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9781491007631 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 15, 2013, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: The IL âtrackââone of five tracks within VAâs VR&E programâprovides a range of benefits to help veterans with service-connected disabilities live independently when employment is not considered feasible at the time they enter the VR&E program.

Va Education Benefits: Va Needs to Improve Program Management and Provide More Timely Information to Students

Product Description: VA provided nearly $10 billion in education benefits to almost 1 million veterans and beneficiaries in fiscal year 2011. The majority of these benefits were provided through the Post-9/11 GI Bill, which in 2008 established what has since grown into VAâs largest education program...read more

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9781491007723 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 15, 2013, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: VA provided nearly $10 billion in education benefits to almost 1 million veterans and beneficiaries in fiscal year 2011.

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