Xi led the efforts to promulgate and revise a series of Party regulations, improve the mechanism to conduct discipline inspections, and establish the National Commission of Supervision that places everyone in public office under oversight. Observers said Xi has played a key role in reshaping the CPC...
On January 27, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) new consent rule for robocalls and robotexts will take effect. The FCC aims to close the “lead generator loophole” by requiring marketers to obtain “one-to-one” consumer consent to receive telemarketing texts and auto-diale...
Looming on the Horizon is also a Scheme to Regulate Supplements GloballyBy Scott C. Tips, NHF PresidentDecember 3, 2024 On my way to Geneva for Codex meeting Under overcast skies but with Winter’s icy grip not yet present, the 47th session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) met ...
On February 29, 2024, President Biden nominated three new commissioners of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”). The nominations will be reviewed and voted on by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and are subject to confirmation by the full Senate. If approved, the ...
India's Finance Commission India's Foreign Exchange Reserves India's Foreign Policy India's Foreign Service India's Foreign Trade India's Government Budget Constraint India's Government Expenditure India's grassroots activists India's Health/Medicine India's higher education India's His...
As the 9/11 Commission reviewed the lapses in US defenses that allowed the attacks to occur, the phrase "connecting the dots" entered the popular lexicon, as in "The intelligence services failed to connect the dots." Nonetheless, in the aftermath of 9/11, neither the CIA nor the NSA seem...
"had taken serious steps to back up the State action for safeguarding citizens and expatriates, particularly amid the current conditions, thus putting all available resources as disposal of the national security system." It further indicated that the commission had enacted legislations at this level....
Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, and scores of agencies within the cabinet departments. Congressional committees hold oversight hearings in which the people's representatives roundly condemn or lavishly praise the regulatory agencies' decisions, and Congress usually amends their enabling ...
Processing and industrial use of chrysotile asbestos in bulk form or as part of chrysotile asbestos diaphragms used in the chlor-alkali industry; and Industrial use of chrysotile asbestos sheet gaskets for titanium dioxide production. Once a facility has completed the phase-out of chrysotile asbest...
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has increased enforcement efforts around the whistleblower protection rule Rule 21F-17(a) which prohibits companies from impeding the ability of individuals to blow the whistle on potential securities law violations to the Commission. Most notably, the rule ...