House OK's Disclosure of Pension Info
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to allow workers and retirees to find out from a federal agency just how severe the shortfalls are in their companies' pension plans.
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The Texas House of Representatives approved a bill to allow local courthouse clerks to disclose &#8220;in the ordinary course of business&#8221; Social Security numbers contained in public records maintained by their offices.
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Workers at the Department of Homeland Security will no longer be required to sign a controversial secrecy pledge prohibiting them from sharing sensitive but unclassified information with the public, DHS officials announced this week.
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The House passed legislation Tuesday to combat the criminal use of Internet spyware and scams aimed at stealing personal information from computer users
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 14  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U. S. Department of Labor (DOL) today announced an interim final rule requiring the distribution of 401(k) type benefits for missing non-spouse beneficiaries from terminated plans to be rolled into individual retirement accounts (IRAs).
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Important details in little-seen government reports.
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(InfoWorld) - A U.S. House of Representatives Committee has approved a controversial bill that would broaden the U.S. government's ability to conduct electronic surveillance on U.S. residents by making it easier for federal law enforcement officials to get court-issued warrants. The Electronic Modernization Surveillance Act,Â opposed by several privacy groups, would also allow federal law enforcement officials to spy on U.S. residents for up to 90 days without a court order in the period after a terrorist attack. The House Judiciary Committee approved the legislation Wednesday by a 20-16 vote, with all committee Democrats present voting against the bill. The bill, sponsored by Representative Heather Wilson, a New Mexico Republican, would reduce the amount of information required from federal agents applying for a wiretapping warrant from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The bill would clarify that the U.S. government can seek wiretaps on any type of electronic communication, not just telephone- or radio-spectrum-based communication. Republicans praised the bill, saying it will help the U.S. government fight terrorism. The bill will provide the U.S. intelligence agencies "greater agility and flexibility as they try to thwart our determined and dangerous terrorist enemies," Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin Republican, said in a statement. The full House is expected to vote on the bill by the end of the month. The committee's action comes after U.S. President George Bush called on Congress to approve a controversial electronic surveillance program conducted by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). The NSA has conducted the program, reportedly targeting U.S. residents speaking with foreigners who have suspected terrorism connections, without getting court warrants. Bush has asked Congress to authorize the NSA program to ward off multiple court challenges against it. In August, a U.S. judge in Michigan ruled the NSA program is illegal and must be halted. The Bush administration has appealed that ruling. The Senate Judiciary CommitteeÂ approved three surveillance billsÂ last week. The Center for Democracy and Technology, a privacy and civil liberties advocacy group, called the Wilson bill and the Senate's National Security Surveillance Act two of the worst bills now in Congress. "Couched in the seemingly laudable terms of 'modernization,' the bills would radically undermine the privacy of innocent Americans -- not just by legitimizing the administration's warrantless surveillance programs -- but by granting this and future administrations even broader authority to spy on Americans in the United States without judicial review," the CDT said on its Web site.
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The senators want to know whether the federal agency that insures private pension plans has enough money and the right approach to do its job.
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The House approved a bill Thursday that would grant legal status to President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program with new restrictions. Republicans called it a test before the election of whether Democrats want to fight or "coddle" terrorists.
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The House voted Tuesday to give the nation's military and public servants such as volunteer firefighters more tax benefits in response to their service.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a plan to give the U.S. economy a $146 billion election-year boost through tax rebates and other measures to stave off a possible recession by boosting business and consumer spending.
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President Bush stuck to generalities in his State of the Union message, but the White House this week provided some details of its plan to set up private accounts in the Social Security system. The administration didn't lay out a complete road map. It remains unclear, for example, how much traditional benefits will have to be cut or how the ...
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By Tiffany Erickson Deseret Morning News  Friday the House approved a bill that would tweak the new private school voucher law known as the Parents for Choice in Education Act.
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The U.S. Treasury Department tapped into a federal employee pension fund Thursday as a stop-gap measure to keep the government below its $7.384 trillion borrowing limit, Treasury Secretary John Snow said in a letter to Congress.
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Deal restores requirement to disclose all member-sponsored projects including the right to challenge projects on House floor.
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Ending months of deadlock with the  White House, the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday  gave final bipartisan approval to legislation that would  temporarily extend the state health insurance program that  covers about 6.6 million poor children.
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The 401(k) is being transformed. The pension bill that President Bush signed into law makes 401(k)s friendlier to workers and encourages employers to help savings-challenged Americans build their nest eggs for retirement.