House GOP Discusses immigration and Border Security at Retreat - At the House GOP’s annual retreat on January 30-31, the caucus debated a broad set of immigration and border security principles drafted by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert...
SGR Reform Negotiations - Staff negotiations on a package to overhaul the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula are gaining steam as the Committees of jurisdiction tackle a significant hurdle left unaddressed to date: how to pay for reform. Last...
Congress Examines A Series of Regulatory Reports - Last week, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing to explore the annual report and oversight of the Department of Treasury’s Office of Financial Research (OFR)...
The European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) requires EU-counterparties to all derivative contracts, whether traded on- or off-exchange, to report certain information and details relating to the trade to a registered trade repository (TR)....
In This Issue: Leading the News; United States – Africa Relations; North Africa; East Africa; West Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; and General Africa News. Excerpt from Leading the News - African Union Summit: On January 26th, the State...
Addressing a finding of obviousness by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (now the Patent Trial and Appeal Board) (Board) following inter partes reexamination, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal...
Governor’s State of the State Address Scheduled for Next Week: On January 24th, the Governor’s Office announced that Governor LePage will deliver his annual State of the State Address on Tuesday evening, February 4th. In this speech, the Governor...
In previous posts (Proposed Changes to UK's TUPE will impact outsourcing deals, The UK Government consults on proposed changes to the TUPE regulations) we highlighted the UK Government's proposed changes to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of...
In a move that portends continued intense enforcement of federal energy laws, President Obama has nominated Norman Bay to serve as the next chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.... By: PretiFlaherty
Like other Independent System Operators have done before it, the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) is back at the drawing board in an effort to further refine its generator interconnection procedures and improve on queue reforms initially put in place in...
