Free Money

Posted on July 4th, 2007 in Government Reform, Partisan Free Politics by Josh
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You gotta love Congress, as a source of quotes if nothing else.  Following is a link to a weekly feature we produce at my current place of employment.  Our last installment was about the pay raise Congress is giving itself this year (and which they AUTOMATICALLY get each year unless they vote to stop it).  What a wonderful world they live in. http://www.taxpayer.net/TCS/wastebasket/budget/2007-06-29payraise.html I strongly suggest you follow the embedded links as well.  The last one, an article by CQ, is especially enlightening.  It makes me happy to see the leadership of each party finally coming through on their promises of bipartisanship... 

Obama tries to steal my thunder!?

Posted on June 27th, 2007 in Government Reform, Partisan Free Politics by Andrew MacRae
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Just last week Sen. Obama released his policy proposals for reforming government. In addition to “closing the revolving door”, “electronic financial disclosures” and many other well meaning measures including: (2) 21ST CENTURY FIRESIDE CHATS: People who care deeply about issues in Washington but live outside the beltway rarely have the opportunity to question and interact with government agencies. Messages are filtered through the media, and many times the hard questions are not asked. Barack Obama will bring democracy and policy directly to the people by requiring his Cabinet officials to have periodic national broadband town hall meetings to discuss issues before their agencies. The Internet makes it possible to take our leaders directly to the people. If this is possible then it should also be mandatory....
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