In fact, the forthcoming CMS report should be mandatory reading not just for Senator Hatch, Senator Coburn and their staffs.

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Wednesday, Bernanke heads back to Capitol Hill, where he'll give his mandatory, semi-annual report on monetary policy to the House Financial Services Committee.

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Currently Rabbis and other clergy members are not mandatory reporters and their failure to report evidence of abuse is not a crime.

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There is a suggestion that the mandatory requirement for quarterly reporting be dropped, but multinational companies will still have to report quarterly to their American investors.

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The report complained of a lack of necessary data, because energy audits are not mandatory in Italy and Lithuania.

BBC: EU auditors criticise energy efficiency projects

The report suggests that many countries will find it difficult to contain the costs of population ageing by making mandatory pensions less generous.

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