The Right Road on Regulation
Regulation is like the weather. Everyone likes to complain, but nobody does anything about it. That’s not true, however, of the House of Representatives, which… Read More
Fast and Furious: Covering up the Death of a U.S. Agent
Todd Gaziano has outlined at the Foundry the legal doctrine of executive privilege that President Obama has asserted in the congressional investigation of Operation Fast… Read More
Obama’s Nixonian Contempt for Transparency
President Obama channeled his inner Richard Nixon with his exercise of executive privilege to shield Attorney General Eric Holder from transparency. Whether the assertion is… Read More
Obama Administration Discontinues Transparency Tool
Since 1993, the Census Bureau has made available detailed data about federal government expenditures in its Consolidated Federal Funds Report (CFFR). The 2012 report will… Read More
House of Representatives Makes Legislative Data More Accessible
Citizens across America will have a powerful tool to hold their elected leaders accountable come January. The House of Representatives today adopted new standards that increase… Read More
New Mobile App Makes U.S. House Even More Accessible
Republican leaders this week unveiled a new mobile app that helps Americans follow the action of the House of Representatives from the palm of their… Read More
A Plan to Limit Dishonesty in Congress
Give two U.S. Senators credit for trying to do something about the smoke-and-mirrors games in Washington. The “Honest Budget Act” by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)… Read More
Super Secret Committee Snubs Transparency
Politico reported what many have feared about the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction in a story titled “Supercommittee operating in secret.” Members of this… Read More
News
Simple Steps for Super Committee Transparency
Roll Call carries op-eds today from the Ripon Society and Heritage debating the merits of Super Committee transparency. Ripon’s Lou Zickar thinks the Joint Select… Read More
News
New Push to Make ‘Super Committee’ Operate in the Open
The newly formed Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction has its 12 members, but beyond that there’s little known about how exactly it will operate…. Read More
Senators Want Joint Committee’s Meetings Aired on TV, Open to Public
A half-dozen Republicans are lobbying Senate leaders to make the newly created Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction transparent in its operations and accessible to the… Read More
5 Transparency Ideas for the New Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction
Upon taking control of the U.S. House in January, Republicans implemented sweeping reforms to make the People’s House more transparent and accessible. Now they’ll have… Read More
House Won’t Provide 72 Hours to Review Budget Control Act
Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) repeatedly criticized Democrats last year for voting on legislation that members didn’t have time to read. “Read the Bill” language was… Read More
Scribecast: Rep. Darrell Issa Discusses Operation Fast and Furious
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) says the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is finally “beginning to break down the walls of silence and refusal” from the… Read More
Sen. Jeff Sessions Introduces Debt Limit Transparency Measure
Today, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) introduced legislation to force seven calendar days of transparency before any debt limit deal is passed by the Senate. The… Read More
White House Silent on Obamacare Transparency Bill
A freshman congressman has offered legislation that would make the extensive federal rulemaking process associated with the new Obamacare law dramatically more transparent. The bill… Read More
Senator Ron Johnson Objects To “Business As Usual”
Yesterday, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) took to the Senate floor to fight against secrecy in budget talks and out of control spending. Transparency may be… Read More
Top 10 Reads: June 27, 2011
Catching you up on clips, commentary and news of the day. Sign up for the daily email update from Scribe. Transparency Win? Secret $2.4 Trillion… Read More
VIDEO: No Transparency on Obama’s Political Donations Executive Order
How’s this for transparency in the White House? Last week, the House joint Oversight and Small Business Committee held a hearing on a proposed Obama… Read More
More Continuing Resolution Transparency, Please
One issue that has come to the forefront in the debate over a continuing resolution to fund the government for the remainder of the year… Read More
Robert Gibbs Wrongly Equates Twitter With Transparency
President Barack Obama and his team have been resting on the strength of their social media efforts in the 2008 election for some time now…. Read More
FCC and Net Neutrality: What Ever Happened to Transparency?
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is slated to vote Tuesday on an Internet regulation scheme hatched by Chairman Julius Genachowski. It’s bad enough that the… Read More
How Congress Can Fight Union Corruption
Heritage Foundation Senior Policy Analyst in Labor Economics James Sherk writes: “The Obama Administration recently rolled back union financial transparency reforms. New regulations will exempt… Read More
Where’s the Tax Bill?
A developing problem with this secret compromise among leaders in the House, Senate and White House with regard to extending tax cuts for all is… Read More
No More ‘Ethics’ in the White House?
It looks like ethics and transparency are yet again taking a back seat at the Obama White House, this time with the little-noticed news that… Read More
Health CareNews
Video of the Week: “We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it”
You might have seen this week a stunning demonstration of political condescension on the health care front. In remarks at the 2010 Legislative Conference for… Read More
What Transparency Looks Like to the Obama White House
Things that are transparent: Saran Wrap, glass, water. Things that aren’t transparent: brick walls, mountains, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). Or so… Read More
Obama’s Health-Care Summit – Gimmick or Negotiation?
On February 25th, the White House has proposed a bipartisan, half-day televised summit on health care. It is unclear as to whether this is a… Read More
Fourth Quarter Blackout
Imagine watching the biggest game of the year—the Super Bowl—only to have the broadcast cut off as the fourth quarter begins. The same outrage should… Read More
Knock, Knock, Knockin’ on Obama’s Door
The pressure is building on President Barack Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to open their closed-door health care negotiations to… Read More
