New from the U.S. Government

U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
Available online.
"To examine the prevalence of any alcohol use and binge drinking among pregnant women and nonpregnant women of childbearing age in the United States and to characterize the women with these alcohol use behaviors, CDC analyzed 1991-2005 data from Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) surveys. The findings indicated that the prevalence of any alcohol use and binge drinking among pregnant and nonpregnant women of childbearing age did not change substantially from 1991 to 2005."
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U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
Available online.
"This report summarizes changes in the federal excise tax, as well as state excise taxes for all 50 states and the District of Columbia (DC) from December 31, 1995 to April 1, 2009."
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U.S. Office of the Federal Register.
Available online.
"The Unified Agenda (also known as the Semiannual Regulatory Agenda), published twice a year (usually in April and October) in the Federal Register (FR), summarizes the rules and proposed rules that each Federal agency expects to issue during the next year."
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U.S. National Center for Health Statistics.
Available online.
"This report examines data on nonmarital births from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS). The principal measures reviewed are the number of births to unmarried women, the birth rate for unmarried women, and the percentage of all births to unmarried women... Childbearing by unmarried women has resumed a steep climb since 2002."
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U.S. Office of Management and Budget.
Available online.
"The Budget of the United States Government is a collection of documents that contains the budget message of the President, information about the President's budget proposals for a given fiscal year, and other budgetary publications that have been issued throughout the fiscal year."
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U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
Available online.
This 6 May 2009 Senate hearing includes the texts of statements from committee members and witnesses, plus video.
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U.S. Government Printing Office.
Available online.
The latest update to this official compilation series contains entries for January through June 2004.
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U.S. General Accountancy Office.
Available online.
Excellent overview of the current situation and recent history begins "The United States has provided approximately $38.6 billion in reconstruction assistance to Afghanistan and has over 35,000 troops in the country as of February 2009. Some progress has occurred in areas such as economic growth, infrastructure development, and training of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), but the overall security situation in Afghanistan has not improved after more than 7 years of U.S. and international efforts."
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Available online.
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released the national greenhouse gas inventory, which finds that overall emissions during 2007 increased by 1.4 percent from the previous year. The report, Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2007, is the latest annual report that the United States has submitted to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which sets an overall framework for intergovernmental efforts to tackle the challenge posed by climate change."
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U.S. Congressional Budget Office.
Available online.
"Over the past several years, spurred by both rising gasoline prices and long-standing subsidies for producing ethanol, the use of ethanol as a motor fuel in the United States has grown at an annual average rate of nearly 25 percent. U.S. consumption of ethanol last year exceeded 9 billion gallons-a record high. CBO released a paper today that discusses the relationship between ethanol, greenhouse-gas emissions, food prices, and federal spending on nutrition programs."
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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Available online.
Article in the Spring 2009 issue of Occupational Outlook Quarterly by a BLS economist, describing the evolution of television news as a profession.
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The U.S. Government has released the latest editions of two annually-published reports on terrorism around the world:

U.S. State Department.
Country Reports on Terrorism, 2008

U.S. National Counterterrorism Center.
2008 Report on Terrorism

Links to both series will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

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U.S. National Science Foundation.
Available online.
"This report will discuss Earth's systems piecewise, beginning with the physical systems of Earth's atmosphere, sea, land, and ice, then focusing on life on Earth, and ending with, perhaps, the most challenging and dynamic piece of all -- people. It's important to realize that all of the pieces of the climate puzzle are interconnected, and all of the pieces are necessary to gain a full understanding of climate variability and change."
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