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Virginia Republican Eric Cantor’s 22-page game plan on how to change Congress
Virginia Republican Eric Cantor’s official announcement of his run for House majority leader came with a twist: a 22-page game plan on how to change Congress. Cantor, currently the GOP w...
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Congressional Oversight Manual
he Congressional Research Service (CRS) developed the Congressional Oversight Manual over 30 years ago, following a three-day December 1978 Workshop on Congressional Oversight and Investi...
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The Trend in Long-Term Unemployment and Characteristics of Workers Unemployed...
One of the characteristics of the recession that began in the United States in December 2007 and officially ended in June 2009 was the unprecedented rise in long-term unemployment. The lo...
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Local Open Government Directive
The [City] is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government. City officials will work together and with the public to ensure open and effective government as well...
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Office of Management and Budget's 2012 funding recommendations for the Depart...
The secret budget passback from OMB to the agencies
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Rummaging in the Government’s Attic
Lessons Learned from more than 1,000 FOIA Requests - A Talk on Federal Government Documents at a Hacker Conference, July 2010
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GPO and Library of Congress to Digitize Historic Documents
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and Library of Congress (LOC) are collaborating to digitize some of our nation’s most important legal and legislative documents after receiving a...
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The Freedom of Information Act and Nondisclosure Provisions in Other Federal ...
Congress continues to consider how to balance the federal government’s growing need for sensitive or confidential business information, the public’s right of access to information about g...
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Supreme Court handed down a decision in FCC v. AT&T
Under FOIA, federal agencies generally must release their records to a requester, unless one of nine exemptions is met. At issue in Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T, Inc. is whet...
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Truth in Testimony declaration - Dr. John Goodman
A scanned-in declaration from a witness at today's House Energy and Commerce hearing on health care, one Dr. John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis.
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Truth in Testimony - Heather Boushey
For the Committee on Education and the Workforce
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House Resolution to Defund NPR
To prohibit Federal funding of National Public Radio and the use of Federal funds to acquire radio content.
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Sovereign Fiscal Responsibility Index 2011
The Sovereign Fiscal Responsibility Index (SFRI) is the result of a six-month long master’s thesis project completed by a team of four students from the International Policy Studies (IPS)...
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