Brown noted that he had requested his staff at the Bureau of Export Administration to come up with strategies to change the "perception" that Commerce was playing a "secondary role" to the Departments of State and Defense on export controls.
In a 4 June 1990 memorandum provided to Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher, however, Commerce Department Inspector General Frank De George contends that the Bureau of Export Administration altered information on this computer print-out on at least 68 separate export licenses.
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Since the Bureau of Export Administration had altered the original records, the IG had to scrounge up an incomplete magnetic tape that only had data up to the latter part of May 1990 over two months before the embargo was imposed on Iraq.
After holding hearings on U.S. licensed sales to Iraq in September 1990, the House Government Operations Committee sought from the Commerce Department's Bureau of Export Administration, managed by then-Under Secretary of Commerce Dennis Kloske, a list of all U.S. dual-use exports licensed for sale to Iraq between 1985 and 1990.
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Like the outcasts many no doubt were in high school, high-power rocketeers seem to derive a certain inner strength from the persecution they endure, nowadays at the hands of the Federal Aviation Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and other killjoy agencies looking to rain on their exploding parade.
Lu, the associate administrator of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Five of these, including projects at the Veteran Health Administration and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, have been nominated for the 2012 Government Big Data Solutions Award.
Federal law enforcement agencies conducting the searches included the Transportation Security Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
As a second-generation oilman, Zhang began working in 1990 for the First Machinery Factory of Huabei Petroleum Administration Bureau, a state oil subsidiary.
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Go ahead. (Applause.) Katharine brings a wealth of experience as an economist, as a commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics during the Clinton administration.
Other federal agencies such as the U.S. Customs Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigation use dogs to find contraband, cocaine or criminals.
The Transportation Security Administration, FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives all have efforts aimed at helping the private sector and law enforcement agencies prevent IED attacks.
For example, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigation allegedly bought counterfeit Cisco routers that originated in China in 2008.
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Over the past few months, students from Santa Barbara, California to Miami, Florida have played hosts to some unusual substitute teachers, as senior women scientists and engineers from the highest levels of the Obama Administration hit the road as part of the Women in STEM Speakers Bureau roundtable series.
Lead and manage the Bureau in the conceptualization and implementation of policies, strategies, plans, projects and approaches for the administration and delivery of personnel support services provided to Headquarters, Field Offices and Institutes by the Bureau of HRM, and also assess progress and determine corrective action.
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Other major Federal institutions to be severely affected by a government shutdown include the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).
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The measures, including home buying curbs and differentiated mortgage policies, will remain, Liu Haisheng, director of the Shanghai Housing Support and Building Administration Bureau, told a municipal conference held Wednesday.
Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and Paula A. DeSutter is former assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Verification and Compliance in the George W. Bush administration.
The department oversees all U.S. Attorney offices, the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Bureau of Prisons and the Marshal's Service.
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Export of software from the U.S., including software that deploys encryption functions, is controlled by the Bureau of Industry and Security ( BIS) in accordance with the Export Administration Regulations ( EAR).
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Within those categories, there are more than 100 sub-criteria, like degree of confinement in the work environment and income growth potential. (My colleague Jacquelyn Smith covered the last best and worst lists here.) The data come from the BLS, the Census Bureau, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and an array of private compensation surveys, trade association studies and state statistics.
Other U.S. government agencies such as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are dumping Blackberries for iPhones.
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Citing unprecedented movements of the population to areas with heavy concentrations of armaments manufacturing and responding to the administration's orders, the Census Bureau unveiled a 1941 plan to conduct an annual sample census.
The US has ordered about 350 drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004 - according to data from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the New American Foundation - with the large majority occurring during the Obama administration.
The Obama administration promises to send several hundred more agents to the border, both from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Public choice theory explains the incentives and behavior of the tens of thousands of government employees who work in the bowels of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Treasury, Office of Management and Budget, Economics and Statistics Administration, and countless other agencies who generate and massage spreadsheets day in and day out.
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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, median incomes have risen in most of the 50 states under the first three years of the Obama Administration.
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By last count, no fewer than 106 federal agencies are tasked with gathering statistics, the most important being the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Census Bureau, U.S. Treasury, Internal Revenue Services, Office of Management and Budget, and Economics and Statistics Administration.
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