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Social Security cash flow deficits are projected to begin in 2016
Image via WikipediaGovernment reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise.From: The Concord CoalitionWASHINGTON BUDGET REPORT: May 18, 2009Trustees Report Projects Social Security Deficit in 2016Last week, the Trustees o...
Social Security cash flow deficits are projected to begin in 2016
Image via WikipediaGovernment reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise.From: The Concord CoalitionWASHINGTON BUDGET REPORT: May 18, 2009Trustees Report Projects Social Security Deficit in 2016Last week, the Trustees o...
Medicare Part A Hospital Insurance Trust Fund is already running a cash deficit
Image via WikipediaGovernment reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise.From: The Concord CoalitionWASHINGTON BUDGET REPORT: May 18, 2009Trustees Report Shows Medical Hospital Fund Already in the RedMedicare is a natio...
Medicare Part A Hospital Insurance Trust Fund is already running a cash deficit
Image via WikipediaGovernment reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise.From: The Concord CoalitionWASHINGTON BUDGET REPORT: May 18, 2009Trustees Report Shows Medical Hospital Fund Already in the RedMedicare is a natio...
Check out this lecture video on campaign finance reform by Lawrence Lessig
Government reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise.From: Change CongressLessig's keynote - an intellectual treat for youHi folks,If you want to give your mind an intellectual treat, take the time this weekend to watc...
Check out this lecture video on campaign finance reform by Lawrence Lessig
Government reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise.From: Change CongressLessig's keynote - an intellectual treat for youHi folks,If you want to give your mind an intellectual treat, take the time this weekend to watc...
Sign the Fair Elections Now Act Petition
Image via WikipediaGovernment reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise.From: Public CampaignMoney in Politics 2009: New Horizons for Campaign ReformLast Friday, experts from all across the country gathered to examine ...
Many hard-earned reforms to the nation’s campaign finance laws are in danger of being dismantled
Image via WikipediaGovernment reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise.From: Campaign Legal CenterDecades of Campaign Finance Law Under Siege Posted May 7, 2009 by Tara Malloy and J. Gerald HebertMany decades of hard-...
Obama administration's transparency and accountability rules on registered lobbyists seeking stimulus funds ignore business executives
Image by Getty Images via DaylifeGovernment reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise.From: CREW- Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in WashingtonCREW Releases analysis of credit card execs' 2008 electoral cycle po...
Federal Election Commission law enforcement crippled by takeover of anti-reform ideology
Image via WikipediaGovernment reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise.From: Democracy 21Mayday, Mayday at the Federal Election Commission:A Report on the Unprecedented Campaign by the Republican FEC Commissioners to ...
Video: Congressional candidates' campaign fundraisers already taking place
Government reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise. From: American News Project (ANP)Capitol Hill: Parties all the timeBy Harry Hanbury Garland McLaurin Mike Fritz on Mar 19, 2009ANP senior producer Harry Hanbury...
$11 Trillion Debt - Watch it grow on Twitter and Facebook
Government reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise.From: Peter G. Peterson FoundationNational Debt Breaks $11 TrillionAmerica's national debt has punched a new hole in the stratosphere. This week, the national debt ...
Video: Mapping money and politics in the US
Government reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise. From: MAPLightMapping Money and PoliticsMapping Money and Politics is a "mash-up," in development, showing campaign contributions on a map. The project is an inform...
The Republican National Committee sues to challenge the ban on federal campaign soft money again
Supreme Court of the United States of America. Image via WikipediaGovernment reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise. From: Democracy 21Democracy 21 Press ReleaseMarch 4, 2009www.democracy21.org RNC Lawsuit S...
Please support independent federal finance watchdog Taxpayers for Common Sense
Government reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise.From: Taxpayers for Common Sense[TCS has been an integral watchdog of our federal government's fiscal activities. The below letter from them reminds us of how criti...
Mashup campaign and lobbying data in new ways in 2009
Image via CrunchBaseImage via CrunchBaseGovernment reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise. From: Sunlight Foundation ...
Vote at Change.org to get a public financing proposal presented to the Obama Administration on Inauguration Day
Government reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise. From: You StreetVote to make public funding an Obama priorityIf you support public funding of elections, here's a great way to show it. By taking just a few minutes...
YouStreet.org brings added focus and activism to clean elections movement
All Things Reform is pleased to interview Matt Stempeck of You Street, a new campaign of Americans for Campaign Reform. You Street's sole purpose is to make voluntary public funding of all federal elections the law of the land. It has structured its...
Join YouStreet.org, a public finance activist community now online
Government reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise. From: You StreetThe future starts today! Our nation stands at a crossroads. In the recent election, millions of Americans from all over the political map made it...
Sign on as a citizen co-sponsor of US House counterpart bill to Senate's Fair Elections Now Act
Government reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise.From: Public Campaign Action FundFair Elections in the House! This morning Congress took another big step forward towards making Fair Elections a reality. Rep. John ...
Since 2002, Wall Street firms have spent billions of dollars in Washington influence peddling
US House Financial Services Committee.Image via WikipediaGovernment reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise.From: Judicial WatchWall Street’s Big Bucks Influence CongressTue, 09/23/2008 - 12:28 — Judicial Watch B...
Tell your US Rep. and two US Senators no blank checks for Wall Street donors
Government reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise.From: Public Campaign Action FundYour Bill Comes to $700 Billion The New York Stock Exchange's opening bell sends shivers down the spines of all Americans as we cons...
110th Congress government reform recap
Image via WikipediaWell, it was a busy 110th Congress, that is, the Capital from January, 2007 to September, 2008. As the internet grew and became more social, there was increasing collaboration among pubic interest groups within their respective re...
527 org. 'Secretary of State Project' scoring Democratic victories for Secretary of State in presidential election swing states
Government reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise.From: Center for Public IntegrityELECTION ’08: Scoring Secretary of State Seats for DemsBy Sarah Laskow | September 08, 2008, 1:50 pm Plagued by memories of Florid...
Committee Tool tracks money through bills in congressional committees
US House Financial Services Committee.Image via WikipediaGovernment reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise.From: MAPLight.orgMAPLight.org's new 'Committee Tool' tracks the river of money that flows through all bills...
Presidential candidate McCain is effectively getting an $84 million subsidy for his campaign
Government reform orgs. deliver news on major events within their areas of expertise.From: WashingtonPost.comMcCain Able to Skirt Limits of Federal FinancingThanks to loopholes in campaign financing and spending rules, Sen. John McCain may benefit fr...
