Making Government Operations More Open
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Federal Whistleblower Protection
May 14, 2009
An Open Letter to President Obama and Members of Congress
The undersigned organizations and corporations write to support the completion of the landmark, nine-year legislative effort to restore credible whistleblower rights for government employees. We offer our support to expeditiously pass legislation... more »
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One Bill = One Idea
For example, congress recently passed a bill to reform credit card companies and it also included a provision allowing people to carry handguns into national parks. What? How do those two ideas relate?
Those items should have been two separate bills. I know politics is about compromise; but, I want congress debating the details... more »
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Bills should stand alone -no earmarks -no pork
All Bills should stand clean -no earmarks and non-related.
All Earmarks should be stand along Bills.
All non-related should be stand along Bills.
It seems simple and honest.
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Require all Federal Government meetings that are subject to the Open Meetings Laws to be Webcast online.
The Governor of New York State pioneered this initiative in 2007 when he required all State agencies and authorities to webcast their meetings (Executive Order 3). It's been... more »
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Require Legislators to Read and Understand Legislation before Voting on it.
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Audit the Federal Reserve Bank
We need to audit the Federal Reserve Bank.
No one can verify that the Federal Reserve Bank has contributed positively or negatively to our markets or economy without transparency of it's actions. Period.
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List of All Banks and Amounts Given by Federal Reserve Since September 2008
While this $13 trillion includes TARP money and some recovery money, there is much more in a variety of Federal Reserve programs where we don't know which banks and corporations have gotten money and how much.
Because... more »
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Make Congress READ bills cover to cover before voting on them.
Congress most of the time doesn't even know what they are voting on, some nameless aids write it and the tell them what it is about.
2. Show Where in the Constitution they have the authority to do what they are trying to do.
3. Make a mandatory balanced budget.
4. Make them publish their voting record in their home districts.
5. They shouldn't be able to spend money they don't have absolute proven fund for.
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Prohibit Secret Laws, Regulations, Processes
A secret law is a regulation, policy, or directive that, for one reason or another, has been kept secret from the persons to whom it applies. Secret law that is inaccessible to the public is inherently antithetical... more »
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Make the IRS auditors open and accountable to citizens
First, the IRS should not deploy an assumption... more »
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Verification of eligibility / school records
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Audit the Federal Reserve
Audit the Federal Reserve and make the records public. Enough said. Listen to RON PAUL, President Obama. That would help you tremendously.
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Post Bills for Five Days Before Signing
When there is a bill that ends up on your desk as President, we the public will have five days to look online and find out what is in it before you sign it so that we know what our government is doing.
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