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Find the Right Path to Digital Transformation

GovLoop

Leadership or legislators might not be moved by the need for simplifying IT management or improving collaboration, but they understand the need to keep constituents safe and services running. Department of Agriculture took this approach in 2018, when it adopted a combination of public and private cloud services.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Not surprisingly, the two companies highly prioritized protecting those subsidies, which meant maintaining political support in Congress to ensure no legislation was passed to take them away. In this case, that means that primary market lenders, a very important constituency in the U.S. When applied to the approximately $6.5

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I can't help but laugh. DC Mayor's third term as a platform for transformation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And I "argued" with her about various legislative initiatives that at the end of the day, had no impact, because they provided no additional remedies to give citizens the power to respond to and potentially stop things they didn't like, by providing a process for review and participation.

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FEDERAL TORTS CLAIMS ACT: Feres Doctrine Cracked? Opening of Pandora's Box or Further Encasement in Stone?

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

This legislation included a substantial "crack" in the over 70-year-old, court-imposed Feres doctrine, which barred tort claims by military members against the United States for injuries incurred incident to service. However, Congress could also act again in a future NDAA, with enough pressure from constituents. United States , 889 F.3d