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Jason Trahan
The Dallas Morning News
January 5, 2009

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January 5, 2009

The Number-Cruncher-in-Chief
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The American Prospect
January-February 2009

Interest groups, state and local officials want piece of the stimulus pie
Steven Elbow
The Capital Times
December 30, 2008

Bush presidency gave few favors to Texas, just as advertised
Jason Embry
Austin American-Statesman
December 28, 2008

Overturning Bush's 'Midnight Rules'
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Jason Paz
OpEdNews
December 27, 2008

Bu$hWorld--The End Game
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Mick Youther
OpEdNews
December 27, 2008

Bush's Final F.U.
Tim Dickinson
Rolling Stone
December 25, 2008

Constituents served best with information
Commentary
Chip Brown
Myrtle Beach Sun-News
December 25, 2008

Earmarking funds Moran's campaigns
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Lindsay Wood
DC Examiner
December 25, 2008

Bush Pushes Midnight Regulations, Many To Last
Harry Hanbury
American News Project
December 22, 2008

The Government Domain: Wrapping Up 2008
Peggy Garvin
LLRX.com
December 20, 2008

Industry Keeps Secret the Gas-Drilling Toxins Seeping into Drinking Wells
Society of Environmental Journalists
WatchDog TipSheet
December 17, 2008

Homeland Security 'Midnight' Regulations More Nuisance Than Worry
Caitlin Webber
CQPolitics
December 16, 2008

Bush sneaks through host of laws to undermine Obama
Paul Harris
The Observer (UK)
December 14, 2008

Pack of Liars
Dan Froomkin
White House Watch
Washington Post
December 12, 2008

Canadian police pull old Tasers off streets
Ronald J. Hansen and Robert Anglen
The Arizona Republic
December 12, 2008

Rejected GOP Rejects Bush
Dan Froomkin
White House Watch
Washington Post
December 11, 2008

Richard Burns to Depart LGBT Center
E.P. Andrews
New York Blade
December 11, 2008

Groups ask Obama to reverse policies restricting access to information
Andrew Noyes
Government Executive
December 10, 2008

Open Government Advocates Push for Rulemaking Reform
Rebecca Adams
CQ Today
December 9, 2008

Bush's midnight regulations could have long-lasting impact
Midmorning
Minnesota Public Radio
December 9, 2008

Immunity Recedes for Private Contractors
William Fisher
Inter Press Service News
December 5, 2008

SupplyCore lands body-armor contract
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Rockford Register Star
December 2, 2008

Labor Dept. Accused of Straying From Enforcement
Michael A. Fletcher
The Washington Post
December 1, 2008

CT Firms Mostly Shielded From Defense Cuts
Jason Millman
Hartford Business
December 1, 2008

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The Case for Sunlight
By Gary D. Bass, OMB Watch
Published September 25, 2008 on CJR.org, the website of the Columbia Journalism Review
Only a few days ago, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson asked Congress to pass legislation that would allow his department to use $700 billion to purchase mountains of bad debt. That's 5 percent of the nation's total annual economic output, or to put it another way, that's even more than what has been spent on the war in Iraq. The magnitude of the funds requisitioned is matched only by the administration's requested level of unchecked power and opacity in how it would execute this historic market intervention.
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Advocacy Is Not a Dirty Word
By Gary D. Bass, OMB Watch
Published in the November 1, 2007 edition of The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Lobbying has increasingly become a dirty word. It is associated with backroom deals negotiated by those with lots of money. It is unseemly, made all the more ugly by the likes of the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
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Citizens Have a Right to Know About Lobbying Efforts
By Gary D. Bass, OMB Watch
Published in the May 16, 2007 edition of Roll Call
In a May 10 Roll Call Guest Observer ("Citizens Don't Need 'Protection' From Lobbying"), Douglas Johnson and Caroline Fredrickson posed a question: "Do ordinary citizens need to be protected from groups that may urge them to contact their elected Representatives in Congress about some pending bill?" The authors were referring to H.R. 2093, the latest proposal to shine a light on who is behind big-money, federal grass-roots lobbying expenditures.
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Bush's Most Radical Plan Yet
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Watchdogs Denounce Federal Cuts to Gov’t Oversight Programs
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