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"[P]eople acting in a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could even hope to bring about." - FDR
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Amendments to E.O. 12866
The Data Quality Act passed through Congress in Sec. 515 of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (Public Law 106-554; H.R. 5658). The guidelines, implemented in 2002, could be misused to delay, manipulate, and unfairly affect the outcome of federal agencies' activities.
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Shortly after establishing the Data Quality Guidelines, the Office of Management and Budget pushed to expand political control and influence over scientific by proposing government-wide standards for scientific peer review. The proposal unleashed a backlash from the scientists, public interest groups, and government officials who saw the new policy as major threat to the timely development of objective scientific information.