Tag Archive: OMB Watch

GOP Takes a Stand for Transparency

by Ellen Miller Feb 6, 2009 3:42 pm

There’s a bit of irony in this story. House Republican leaders are calling for Democrats to post the stimulus bill,... View Article

A Transparent and Accountable Recovery

by Ellen Miller Feb 5, 2009 6:23 pm

In the wake of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), and while Congress debates the massive stimulus bill, the Coalition... View Article

Encouraging More Early Actions

by Ellen Miller Dec 10, 2008 10:19 pm

Encouraged by several openness and transparency steps taken by the Obama – Biden transition team, the Center for Democracy &... View Article

ProPublica and OMB Watch Shining Light on “Midnight Regs”

by Ellen Miller Dec 3, 2008 7:11 pm

A couple weeks ago, I blogged about the “midnight regulations” the Bush Administration is inserting into federal rules such as... View Article

Federal Contract Spending

by Ellen Miller Nov 26, 2008 1:28 pm

Scott Amey at the Project for Government Oversight’s POGO blog writes about being positively surprised by one thing he found... View Article

Midnight Regulations

by Ellen Miller Nov 20, 2008 5:37 pm

Ever since Jimmy Carter became a lame duck after the 1980 elections, outgoing presidents have proposed “midnight regulations” in the... View Article

The Right-To-Know-Agenda

by Ellen Miller Nov 17, 2008 12:16 pm

Almost two years ago, a coalition of conservative, libertarian and progressive groups (including Sunlight) began to collectively study government secrecy... View Article

FedSpending.org updated

by Bill Allison

investigations

Jul 30, 2008 7:31 pm

Our friend Adam Hughes of OMB Watch writes:

We released new data on FedSpending.org yesterday. We've now got a complete FY 2007 year for contracts, the first quarter of FY 2008, and a partial second quarter (everything for the second quarter except DoD, which isn't very much). There is also updated assistance data through the third quarter of FY 2007. Here's the release we sent out yesterday.

Adam adds: "We're planning another data update for the end of this year."

New Lobbyist Disclosure Requirements

by Ellen Miller Jul 2, 2008 4:03 pm

As of July 30 lobbyists will have to report some interesting new information: any campaign contributions, including those from a... View Article

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