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President Bush defies Congress and advances cross-border NAFTA trucking
Image via WikipediaGovernment reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise.From: Public CitizenBush Administration Defies Congress, Extends Dangerous Cross-Border Truck Pi...
Tell your US Rep. and two US Senators NO to the 2008 Farm Bill
The National Taxpayers Union is asking us to send a letter to each our US Representative and two US Senators, asking them to uphold President Bush's veto of the 2008 Farm Bill.Congress is poised to pa...
New political discussion blog: Understated Priorities
I have begun a political blog called "Understated Priorities"-- it's at www.understatedpriorities.blogspot.comIt is mostly entries from reference books on the topic of politics: quotes, aphorisms, poe...
Tell your two US Senators to vote YES for full-vote Washington, DC representation
Public Citizen is asking us to call or write our US Senators in favor of having a US Representative for Washington, DC residents. Our more than half a million District of Columbia citizens have been ...
Announcing the Congress Reform team lineup!
Well, today is the big day, when All Things Reform's Facebook has determined the current lineup for our Congressional Reform team.We have two "starting" levels: the All-Stars, and the practice squad....
Change Congress aims to bring reform candidates to congressional office
Change Congress is now open for business! Founded by Lawrence Lessig and Joe Trippi, Change Congress aims to find, debate with and win over congressional candidates on several reform issues. Citizen...
Pork requests flooding Appropriations Committee right now
It looks like business as usual for Washington, DC, as a flood of earmark requests is deluging upon the Appropriations Committee as we speak. Diligence is the word for fiscal discipline activists fro...
Check if your Congressmembers' websites include local appropriations (earmarks) forms
According to a recent Americans for Prosperity blog post, at least three Congressmembers have online earmark request forms! That's right, if you are a constituent of these public servants, you can re...
A look at fiscally controversial 2007 Farm Bill by Taxpayers for Common Sense
The 2007 Farm Bill (H.R. 2419) is yet to be finalized. It is a popular bone of contention to fiscal reformers who see way to much waste and antiquated spending clauses in the annual spending bill. T...
Tell your US Representative and two US Senators NO to Bush administration slush fund
Public Citizen has a grassroots campaign to stop President Bush from increasing his battle to put big money interests over the public interest. Please tell your US Representative and two US Senators ...
US Reps. Lois Capps and Devin Nunes named Porkers of the Month
From CAGW's Porker of the Month page:" Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has named Reps. Lois Capps (D-Calif.) and Devin Nunes (R-Calif) Porkers of the Month for attempting to impede the recove...
Join tele-press conference, sign petition to demand hearing on substandard military helmets
The image above shows a helmet and the amount of kevlar that was left out due to Sioux Manufacturing's substandard production.Tomorrow, Thursday, February 28th, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics ...
Call your U.S. Representative to vote YES for an independent ethics office
Common Cause is asking us to call our own U.S. Representatives and telling them to vote in favor of a new, independent ethics enforcement office. For years, the House ethics committee has been neglig...
Congressional earmark database complete for FY 2008
Taxpayers for Common Sense has completed its database of fiscal year 2008 appropriations bills earmarks.Congress inserted 12,881 earmarks worth $18.3 billion into this year’s spending bills, $14.8 b...
To call your U.S. Rep. or U.S. Senator: 202-224-3121
More than 125 years since the installation of the first telephone in the Capitol, the Capitol switchboard office employs a staff of more than two dozen and handles in excess of 30,000 calls per week. ...
Sound science should overrule high powered lobbying
Our legislators in Washington have increasingly over recent years taken stock on the ill-educated lobby industry over sound scientific advise. Clearly, there is a campaign finance element behind this...
Attorney General Mukasey will not enforce contempt charges against executive branch officials from Congress
TPMmuckraker blog has an update on Attorney General Mukasey's interview before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. On the issue of whether he would enforce a charge of contempt by Congress against ...
U.S. House leadership: start cooperating with law enforcement agencies!
CREW, a public advocacy organization, has posted information about a letter sent today to Speaker Pelosi and Minority Leader Boehner asking that the House leaders start cooperating with law enforcemen...
New wiki helps make bills easier to read
Readable Laws wiki subtitle is "Legislation in plain English". It focuses on only several Congressional bills active right now, as it is still fairly new. They are always looking for contributors to...
Vote for 2007 Porker of the Year
Swineline blog from Citizens Against Government Waste has opened an online poll for 2007 "Porker of the Year". Yes, now you can have your say on who was the most egregious earmark spender among the ...
Many Congressional websites get failing grades
The Gate blog from National Journal has news on the effectiveness of Congress's websites. The news is not good. As the internet grows in importance to citizens finding out about their government, th...
Call U.S. Senator Feingold on illegal lobbying by the U.S. Dept. of Justice
.gov Watch blog alerts us to an illegal operation presently taking place at the U.S. Department of Justice. In violation of U.S. Code Title 18 Section 1913, the Executive branch department is using Co...
Go mobile with THOMAS legislative mobile info
USA.gov, the internet portal of the federal government, has a page of THOMAS legislative info for mobile phone users. Vital voting and other congressional news, updated around the clock, is now as cl...
Ask your Congressional candidates to endorse Independent America's electoral reform platform
Independent America Political Action Committee has a 10-point electoral reform platform. The planks are:Uniform Ballot AccessLoosen Third Party Ballot RestrictionsUniversal Voter RegistrationElection ...
Committee Caller makes it easy to contact a whole congressional committee
There is now an easier way to make a phone call to all of the members of a Congressional committee-- it's called Committee Caller. You enter your phone number and select your committee or subcommittee...
Top Ten Ethics Scandals of 2007
CREW has released the "Top Ten Ethics Scandals of 2007" list; it is in pdf file format and requires the free Adobe Reader software. Most of these stories you may remember, as they impact the quality ...