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Key Rule Could Delay Crucial Disclosure

ProPublica | Posted 05.29.2012

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by Justin Elliott ProPublica, May 29, 2012, 10:32 a.m.After years of consideration, the Federal Communications Commission finally voted last month t...

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Turning 40: Avoiding a Midlife Crisis for the Clean Water Act

Mekell Mikell | Posted 04.30.2012

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Before the Clean Water Act, pollution was so bad that water bodies like the Cuyahoga River in Ohio and the Charles River in Massachusetts caught on fire faster than a batch of birthday candles.

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Republican Financial Regulator Goes Crying To OMB

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 03.09.2012

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WASHINGTON -- In a signal that partisan squabbling in the nation's capital may be reaching new levels of rancor, a key Republican regulator is pursuin...

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Obama Makes New Appointment

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 03.18.2012

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday named Jeffrey Zients as his acting budget chief but held off on nominating him for the permanent ...

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Review Of Obama Regulations Reveals Surprising Result

Bloomberg | Mark Drajem And Catherine Dodge | Posted 12.26.2011

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President Barack Obama's "tsunami" of new government regulations looks more like a summer swell. Obama's White House has approved fewer regulations...

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Energy Dept. 'Not Poised To Approve' Second Solyndra Loan

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 12.05.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Department of Energy considered granting Solyndra a second loan even as the company's dire financial situation became increasingly a...

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Outrage Over $16 Muffin Was Half Baked

Wyatt Kash | Posted 11.22.2011

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Trying to hold a legitimate off-site meeting doesn't come cheaply in Washington whether you're organizing it for the Department of Justice or private industry.

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House Republicans See Rushed Review In Solyndra Emails

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 11.14.2011

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WASHINGTON -- House Republicans on Wednesday charged top administration officials with rushing the review of more than $500 million in loan guarantees...

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OBAMA'S BIG MISTAKE: Ambivalent Regulator Cass Sunstein

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 08.13.2011

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When President Barack Obama let it be known in January 2009 that he had selected Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein to be his regulatory czar, it was...

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White House Budget Staffers Seek To Join Labor Union

AP | By SAM HANANEL | Posted 07.16.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Staffers at the White House budget office filed a petition Monday to join a labor union, seeking to gain more input over their working c...

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Weekly Mulch: The EPA Can Regulate Carbon, For Now

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.08.2011

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger This week, the House voted to shut down the carbon regulation program at the Environmental Protection Agency...

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Obama's Regulations Review Draws Mixed Responses

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

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This story has been updated President Obama's government-wide review of federal regulations, announced in an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal a...

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OMB Orders Government Agencies to Monitor Disgruntled Employees -- What's Next?

Coleen Rowley | Posted 05.25.2011

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The White House and its paranoid Barney Fife bureaucrats have set their gun sights on the "insider threat" lurking within top secret America itself.

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Bruce Bartlett: Time to Reform the Budget Process

thefiscaltimes.com | Bruce Bartlett | Posted 05.25.2011

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ne consequence of the Senate's irresponsible delay in confirming Jacob Lew as director of the Office of Management and Budget is that Congress will ha...

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Obama, GOP Leaders Agree To More Meetings On Bush Tax Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Obama and congressional leadership agreed on Tuesday that the best way to resolve differences on the soon-to-be-expired B...

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Obama Nominee Doesn't Believe Deregulation Led To Financial Crisis

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE: The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 9 to 0 on Tuesday morning in favor of Lew's nomination and referred him ...

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Jack Lew: Obama's OMB Pick Oversaw Citigroup Unit That Shorted Housing Market

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama's choice to lead the White House budget office oversaw a Citigroup unit that profited off the housing collapse and financial cr...

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Possible Gulf Oil Spill Litigation Prompts White House To Ask Congress For $10 Million

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The White House is asking Congress to approve $10 million for potential litigation costs arising from the oil spill in the Gulf of ...

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It's the Jobs, Stupid

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama needs to learn from the example of Harry Truman, who not only won re-election in 1948 in American history's greatest electoral upset; his coattails were so attractive that the Democrats took back both houses of Congress.

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Dear President Obama, Quit Cheating Small Businesses Out of Federal Contracts

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011

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During your Presidential campaign you promised, "an end to business as usual in Washington," and "change we can believe in." You made several promises...

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Obama Small Business Conference Draws Criticism

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011

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On Monday, June 14, the Obama Administration suddenly announced that it will hold a small business forum in Washington D.C. on June 28. Obama Adminis...

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White House Sidelines the Public in Coal Ash Debate

Gary D. Bass, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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The ongoing controversy over coal ash is beginning to make the Obama administration look bad. The president came into office promising to curb the special deals given to moneyed interests. So where's the balance?

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Coal Ash Stories Highlight the Problems

Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.25.2011

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This post was co-written by Lyndsay Moseley, Associate Washington Representative for the Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign. This week we had the privil...

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White House To 'Rebalance' Relationship Between Government And Contractors

Federal Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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The White House's 2011 budget proposal will "rebalance" the relationship between the government and its contractors through more oversight and insourc...

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WH Releases Open Government Directive: Transparency (Plus) Engagement (Equals) More Democracy

Peter M. Shane | Posted 05.25.2011

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If transparency is truly to promote accountability, then the public needs journalists to help discover, gather, compare, contextualize, and share the new information becoming available.

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