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Stimulus Working for You?

Sep 08, 2010 • Categories: Government Spending, Needs Accountability, Needs Transparency, Obama, Transparency, Wasteful Spending • by

Section 1604 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (AARA) specifically prohibits funds from flowing to certain entertainment and recreation projects. Does a casino, aquarium, zoo, golf course, or swimming pool sound like recreation or entertainment to you? Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Ranking Member on the Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, has [...]

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Health Care Bill: Obama's Lack of Transparency

Mar 23, 2010 • Categories: Government Spending, Needs Transparency, Obama, Posting Online, Transparency, Wasteful Spending • by

Although promising the public would have five days to look at every bill online before signing it into law, Obama has signed the health care bill just 36 hours after it passed the House. Check out the video.

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The Transparent Presidency?

Jan 06, 2010 • Categories: Needs Accountability, Needs Transparency, Obama, Transparency • by

What about that pledge for C-Span transparency? Public support for the health care bill continues to fall, and President Obama’s accounts of unfulfilled promises of televised health care negotiations may start to put the pressure on. Will the new bill “be rushed through both chambers with little public scrutiny or even the chance for the [...]

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Transparency from the Fed?

Sep 18, 2009 • Categories: Government Spending, Needs Accountability, Needs Transparency, Obama, Transparency, Wasteful Spending • by

During the past year, the Federal Reserve “created $2 trillion of assets and debts to rescue the nation’s financial institutions.” Taxpayers have no idea how this money is being spent, but they have every right to know who received what loans, how much, why, and for what collateral, as Matthew Winkler notes in today’s Wall Street [...]

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Obama bodes well for government transparency

Jan 21, 2009 • Categories: Posting Online • by

In fewer than 24 hours in office, President Obama has made a small but significant step forward for government transparency at the federal level. I wholeheartedly approve. My buddy jtlight sent me a link to a site depicts the robots.txt file of WhiteHouse.gov both before and immediately after Obama’s swearing-in. Here’s the robots.txt file from [...]

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CTA…Olympics…Obama…and more

Nov 10, 2008 • Categories: Cook County, Needs Accountability, Needs Transparency, Wasteful Spending • by

WWBOD? What would Barack Obama do? Seriously… why are Illinois “elected officials…talking…that the Barack Obama presidency will do much of the heavy lifting” to shape up the CTA?

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Where Did that 100K Go?

Sep 25, 2008 • Categories: Wasteful Spending • by

Here was have another blaring example of Illinois’ need for transparency in government:  A $100,000 state grant for a botanic garden in Englewood that then-state Sen. Barack Obama awarded in 2001 to a group headed by a onetime campaign volunteer is now under investigation by the Illinois attorney general amid new questions, prompted by Chicago [...]

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