The US Library of Congress Federal Research Division reported it in 2006 as having generally good freedom of speech and human rights records, while Freedom House listed it as " free " in 2011, giving it scores of 2 for political rights and 2 for civil liberties.

* Halbert, N, and Derr, J ( 1995 ) A Comprehensive Evaluation of Cattle Introgression into US Federal Bison Herds, Journal of Heredity, Oxford Journals, Vol 98, Issue 1.

The US Federal Reserve was created by the U. S. Congress through the passing of The Federal Reserve Act in the Senate and its signing by President Woodrow Wilson on the same day, December 23, 1913.

The US Federal Reserve remits all its profits to the U. S. Treasury.

In September 2011 the Federal Aviation Administration proposed a US $ 2. 4M fine against the company for its failure to follow quality assurance requirements while producing fiberglass components at its plant in Chihuahua, Mexico.

* Frequency: in Europe, in China, in Japan, in Latin America and in the US and Canada, and products may NOT be used in the UK or Ireland as they cause and suffer from interference with the UK and Ireland cellular networks with illegal use of such products being prohibited by UK agencies, and UK and Ireland DECT and products may NOT be used in the US and Canada as they cause and suffer from interference with US and Canada cellular networks and aircraft and for that reason is deemed illegal to use by US and Canadian agencies such as the Federal Communication Commission and Industry Canada.

* Top 100 US Federal Contractors

* 2004 – Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to Federal Communications Commission censorship guidelines.

* FTC Fair Information Practice, FIPs, US Federal Trade Commission guidelines

* Stratospheric ozone, myths and realities: Testimony of S. Fred Singer, Scientific Integrity and Public Trust: The Science Behind Federal Policies and Mandates: Case Study 1 — Stratospheric Ozone: Myths and Realities, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Science, US House of Representatives, 104th Congress, 1st Sess., September 20, 1995 31 ( Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1996 ).

The United States Food and Drug Administration lists these items as " Generally recognized as safe " or GRAS ; they are listed under both their Chemical Abstract Services number and Fukda regulation under the US Code of Federal Regulations.

The industry change to steel shot, arising from the US and Canadian Federal bans on using lead shotshells while hunting migratory wildfowl has also had an impact on reloading shotshells, as the shot bar and powder bushing required on a dedicated shotshell press also must be changed for each hull type reloaded, and are different than what would be used for reloading shotshells with lead shot, further complicating the reloading of shotshells.

There are also overlapping and somewhat contradictory rules established by the US Federal Government, so some food grown with hydroponics can be certified organic.

( As it happens, no financial assistance was provided to LTCM by the US Federal Reserve, so there was no direct cost to US taxpayers, but a large bailout had to be mounted by a number of financial institutions.

802. 11b and 802. 11g use the 2. 4 GHz ISM band, operating in the United States under Part 15 of the US Federal Communications Commission Rules and Regulations.

According to Federal Election Commission data, Spacey has contributed US $ 42, 000 to Democratic candidates and committees.

Minimum wage rates vary greatly across many different jurisdictions, not only in setting a particular amount of money ( e. g. US $ 7. 25 per hour under U. S. Federal law ( or 2. 13 for employees who receive tips, known as the tipped minimum wage ), $ 9. 04 in the U. S. state of Washington, and £ 6. 08 ( for those aged 21 +) in the United Kingdom ), but also in terms of which pay period ( e. g. Russia and China set monthly minimums ) or the scope of coverage.

ADM ultimately settled Federal charges for more than US $ 100 million and paid hundreds of millions of dollars more to plaintiffs and customers ( US $ 400 million alone on a high-fructose corn syrup class action case ).< ref name =" KaplanFox ">

In 2005, the US Federal Trade Commission brought legal action against a firm that had claimed oil of oregano treated colds and flus, and that oil of oregano taken orally treated and relieved bacterial and viral infections and their symptoms, saying the representations were false or were not substantiated at the time the representations were made, and that they were therefore a deceptive practice and false advertisements.

* 1993 – The North American Free Trade Agreement is signed into law by US President Bill Clinton.

On 1 July 2006, the Central American Free Trade Agreement ( CAFTA ) entered into force between the US and Guatemala and has since spurred increased investment in the export sector.

* Two-way Trade: US $ 823. 9 billion, + 23. 6 % ( 2010 ), + 11. 1 % p. a.

For example, the Chicago Board of Trade has retained overwhelming dominance of trading in US Treasury bond futures despite the startup of Eurex US trading of identical futures contracts.

In addition, the US timber trade also markets various other Federal Trade Commission-defined species as " mahoganies " under a variety of different commercial names, most notably " Philippine mahogany ", which in reality is actually from the genus Shorea, a dipterocarp.

Cheetahs are included on the International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ) list of vulnerable species ( African subspecies threatened, Asiatic subspecies in critical situation ) as well as on the US Endangered Species Act: threatened species-Appendix I of CITES ( Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ).

* 1947-General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) includes US and 22 nations who agree to eliminate trade barriers of all kinds on industrial and agricultural goods.

In 1997 just 6 years later after pulling out of both US and Canadian Markets, Peugeot returned to Mexico after a 36-year absence under the Free Trade Agreement between both Mexico and Chile.

Sponsored by the Caravan Trade & Industries Association " Caravan Holiday " was completed by early 1972 and released in cinemas across Australia as a supporting feature to Peter Bogdanovich's hugely popular US comedy picture What's Up, Doc?

As it happened, separate negotiations on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) moved more quickly, with an agreement signed in October 1947 ; in the end, the US never signed the ITO agreement.

This resulted in 2007 in a ruling against the US government by the World Trade Organization.

Trade among member countries rose from US $ 3. 6 billion in 1991 to US $ 10. 3 billion in 2003.

The US Federal Trade Commission estimates that 9 million cases of identity theft take place per year in the USA alone and recommends that individuals defend themselves against identity theft by shredding financial documents before disposal.

Protests in the US were against both the planned invasion of Iraq issue and the Free Trade Area of the Americas agreement then under negotiation.

The problem is so pervasive that in 2006 the US Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) established Project False Hopes, a Federal and state law enforcement sweep that targeted bogus business opportunity and work-at-home scams.

Trade with the US is not the only issue which has created controversy.

In early 2009, Susan Schwab, outgoing US Trade Representative, announced a 300 % tariff on the cheese, apparently the highest level by far of any in the package of tariffs placed on dozens of European luxury goods in response to a European ban on hormone treated US beef.

Guardianship of personal identifiers by consumers is the most common intervention strategy recommended by the US Federal Trade Commission, Canadian Phone Busters and most sites that address identity theft.

The security breach sparked a number of investigations to include members of Congress, the Federal Trade Commission, the US Securities and Exchange Commission and US state attorneys general as well as personal lawsuits.

More recently, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, `` admitted '' to a news conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, that the US might fall behind Russia ( he apparently meant in weapons development ) if the Soviets continue to test in the atmosphere while we abstain.

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

In December 2011, Aon Corporation paid a $ 16. 26 million penalty to the US Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) and the US Department of Justice ( DOJ ) for violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ( FCPA ).

Belief in conspiracy theories has become a topic of interest for sociologists, psychologists and experts in folklore since at least the 1960s, when the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy eventually provoked an unprecedented public response directed against the official version of the case as expounded in the Report of the Warren Commission.

* 1978 — John A. McCone ( Former Director of CIA and Former Chair of US Atomic Energy Commission )

Because of these regulatory restrictions on ownership, hedge funds have been exempted from mandatory registration with the US Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, which is generally intended to regulate investment funds sold to retail investors.

* Interstate Commerce Commission, a now defunct US Government regulatory body

The US Atomic Energy Commission and NASA tested a few designs from 1959 to 1968.

In testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations a former US State Department official who had been a member of the American Commission at Paris, testified that the United Kingdom and France had simply gone ahead and arranged the world to suit themselves.

The Nicaraguan Canal Commission carried out the most thorough hydrological survey yet of the San Juan river and its watershed, and in 1899 concluded that an interocean project was feasible at a total cost of US $ 138m.

Paint manufacturers began replacing white lead pigments with the less toxic substitute, titanium white ( titanium dioxide ), before lead was banned in paint for residential use in 1978 by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.

* Piston Engines US Centennial of Flight Commission

In 1962-70 negotiations took place between the Cambridge Electron Accelerator Laboratory ( shared by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ), the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and the US Atomic Energy Commission over the proposed 1970 construction of the Stanford Positron Electron Asymmetric Ring ( SPEAR ).