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• US lawmakers push tough new ‘Buy American’ bill

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 514
  US lawmakers push tough new ‘Buy American’ bill US lawmakers have introduced legislation to tighten “Buy American” rules that often anger major US trading partners by requiring that public sector projects rely on domestic goods and services. Representative Dan Lipinski and Senator Russ ...
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• GAO Decision affirms Major Army Conclusions Supporting Oshkosh FMTV Award; Denies Challenges to $440 Million Dollars in Savings And Nearly All Other Protestor Complaints — Press Release

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 144
  GAO Decision affirms Major Army Conclusions Supporting Oshkosh FMTV Award; Denies Challenges to $440 Million Dollars in Savings And Nearly All Other Protestor Complaints OSHKOSH, Wis. — Dec. 17, 2009 — The U.S. Army’s conclusion that Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE: OSK) proposed the lowest price and has the ...
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• GAO Launches ACORN Probe

  
  CRC Blog — Authority: 469
  The Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, has opened an investigation into ACORN . It’s unclear to me if the GAO did this on its own initiative or was ordered by Congress to do it. I remember a few months ago Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) had offered an amendment to legislation ...
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• GAO to Investigate ACORN

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  From The Hill : The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has informed two House Republicans that it will investigate ACORN’s use of federal funds. The GAO sent a letter to Reps. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the ranking member of the ...
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• Science, Smoking, Healthcare, All Prove Gov’t Can’t be Trusted

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  Just sit back and let big daddy government show you the way. The Democrat Party is assuring us that they know better because they have science, educated people, doctors and all that “expertise” in their control. Further more they “care” about us all and they want us to know that they’d never do anything to ...
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• Oshkosh Corporation Believes the Army’s FMTV Award Decision Will Be Maintained — Press Release

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 144
  Oshkosh Corporation Believes the Army’s FMTV Award Decision Will Be Maintained OSHKOSH, Wis. — Dec. 14, 2009 — Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE:OSK) today announced it was informed by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) of its decision regarding the protest of the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) ...
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• Agency Calls for Review of Army Truck Contract

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  A federal watchdog protested an award to the Oshkosh Corporation and recommended that the military re-evaluate the selection.
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• Late Night News:

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  1)  Geithner Says Treasury Faces Long-Term Losses From Autos, AIG ““There is a significant likelihood we will not be repaid from our investments in AIG, GM and Chrysler,” Geithner said. The Government Accountability Office yesterday said that U.S. taxpayers will lose $30.4 billion from the auto-industry ...
  2 weeks ago

• Breaking News: Congress Introduces Bipartisan Seclusion & Restraint Legislation

  
  Special Education Law Blog — Authority: 118
  Image via Wikipedia Yesterday the Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions of the U S House of Representatives introduced new bipartisan legislation aimed at curbing the abuses of seclusion and restraints as behavior management techniques. The press release notes that the victims of the abuse of ...
  2 weeks ago

• FDA Has Failed To Make Safety Changes: GAO

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 544
  In 2004, Merck withdrew its Vioxx painkiller, prompting intense scrutinty of the FDA’s review process. But the agency has not yet restructured its staff to better monitor drug safety, even though experts recommended several key changes back in 2006, the Associated Press reports. Although FDA officials have made ...
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• Academics Spar With Populists Over Fed Audits

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  A group of academic economists — including several Nobel Prize winners, leaders of respected economic journals and former Fed officials — is dialing up its call for lawmakers to drop plans to subject the Federal Reserve to more scrutiny by the Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress. In a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dead Man Gets Passport - The Top 10 Stories You Missed in 2009

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 438
  Dead Man Gets Passport - The Top 10 Stories You Missed in 2009 : Via Foreign Policy. Since 2007, the U.S. State Department has been issuing high-tech "e-passports," which contain computer chips carrying biometric data to prevent forgery. Unfortunately, according to a March report from the Government Accountability ...
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• DeMint threatens to block Fed renomination

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  COLUMBIA. – South Carolina junior Senator Jim DeMint announced Thursday he will oppose the nomination of Ben Bernanke to serve a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve. DeMint said he would also block consideration of the nomination on the Senate floor until lawmakers vote on their version of a House bill ...
  3 weeks ago

• Environmentalists fear possible loophole in EPA coal ash rules

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 652
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is on schedule to release federal guidelines for the disposal of coal ash some time this month, but a potential loophole in the new rules has some worried they will leave Iowans unprotected. For three decades, rules governing  the disposal coal ash , the toxic ...
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• Little U.S. Aid to Mexico Has Been Spent, Report Finds

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 151
  The United States government has only spent 2 percent of the more than $1 billion it has pledged to help Mexico fight drug traffickers, according to a government study released Thursday.
  3 weeks ago

• Handy U.S. GAO “Reports and Testimonies” Webpage

  
  Legal Research Plus — Authority: 124
  The United States Government Accountability Office (U.S. GAO) maintains a handy “reports and testimonies” webpage containing links to its latest work product.The GAO is a well-respected independent nonpartisan agency of the U.S. Government (USG) — see “About GAO” — that works specifically for the U.S. ...
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• The Slow Road Back To Civil Rights Enforcement

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 142
  The New York Times ‘ Charlie Savage got his hands on a new Government Accountability Office report that finds the Bush administration had a “significant drop in the enforcement of several major anti-discrimination and voting rights laws” compared to the Clinton administration. There has long been anecdotal ...
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• Report Examines Civil Rights During Bush Years

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  A review finds a significant drop in the enforcement of antidiscrimination laws after the Clinton administration.
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• Keep On Truckin’, Little Ricky Goodhair

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 470
  From The Houston Chronicle : WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s decision to shift the production of Army trucks from Texas to Wisconsin after 17 years caught Texas’ elected officials by surprise, raising questions about overconfidence, a loss of political clout and the impact of economic incentives provided to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Support Paul-Grayson AND H.R. 1207

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 432
  D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h Rep. Ron Paul’s Federal Reserve Transparency Act is making progress . . . * The House version of the bill (H.R. 1207) has 313 co-sponsors * The Senate  version (H.R. 604) has 30 co-sponsors And last week, Ron Paul along with Rep. Alan Grayson introduced a version of ...
  4 weeks ago

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