On Day Two, President Obama issued new Executive Orders and memoranda — including an Executive Order on Ethics Commitments by... View Article
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(adapted from an Open House Project Google Group message) President Obama has stepped to the plate today, and addressed many... View Article
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Thad Anderson, a Washington, D.C., -based attorney and blogger, has thought a lot about government transparency and freedom of information.... View Article
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We’ve always got an eye out for creative strategies for engaging with legislation, and sometimes, those strategies emerge around specific... View Article
Continue readingNo New TARP Accountability Requirements
Yesterday, I looked at an amendment to the 2nd round of TARP (read: bailout) funds from Tim Walz that sought... View Article
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As the tech community gears up for the, whenever it’s going to be, announcement of the first Chief Technology Officer... View Article
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ProPublica has a cool new feature tracking promises made by politicians and political and governmental entities. For years, I have... View Article
Continue readingNo E-Filing Fix in the Senate, Yet
National Journal’s Eliza Krigman reminds us all of the United States Senate’s failure to catch up with modern times and... View Article
Continue readingGood TARP Transparency Amendment
Rep. Tim Walz introduced an amendment to the second round of TARP – the economic recovery funds aka the bailout... View Article
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We’re delighted to invite you to participate in LittleSis, a wiki its creators, Public Accountability Initiative, appropriately describe as “an... View Article
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