Employee Benefits Law: ERISA and Beyond takes you step by step through these and other statutes and regulations to help ensure that your plans are properly structured, qualified and implemented.

The Nineteenth Edition of the Federal Regulatory Directory is a comprehensive guide for understanding the complex world of federal regulation. It provides detailed profiles of the most important regulatory agencies, including their history, priorities, actions, and landmark decisions. The book also features overviews of independent and self-regulatory agencies, as well as the global and state-level impacts of federal regulation. Whether you are new to the topic or an expert, the Federal Regulatory Directory can be a valuable resource for students, researchers, professionals, and anyone who wants to understand how federal regulation works and how it affects their daily lives.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that if current laws and policies remained the same, the federal government would run budget deficits of $368 billion in 2005 and $295 billion in 2006. However.those estimates omit a significant amount of spending that will occur this year-and conceivably for some time in the future-for U.S. military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan and for other efforts in the war on terrorism.- Summary, The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2006 to 2015The Budget and Economic Outlook presents topics related to leading economic issues including: .A review of 2004's budget outlook and the concept behind CBO's baseline projections.The importance of productivity growth for economic and budget projections as well as an overview of CBO's two-year forecast.Revenues by source and revenue projections in detail.An outlook of mandatory and discretionary spending, including net interest .Budget resolution targets vs. actual budget outcomesTHE U.S. BUDGET & ECONOMIC OUTLOOK: 2006-2015 is one of a series of reports on the state of the U.S. budget and economy that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued each year. It is the requirement of Section 202(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for the CBO to submit to the Committees on the Budget periodic reports about fiscal policy and to provide baseline projections of the federal budget. In accordance with the CBO's mandate to provide impartial analysis, the report makes no recommendations. For additional information about the Congressional Budget Office, please visit www.cbo.gov.