Vol. 3     No. 18      PDF Version

Citizen Health & Safety

OMB Reviewing EPA Report on Children's Health

In an effort well outside the scope of its traditional activities, the Office of Management and Budget is reviewing an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report on children’s health before ...

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Revenue & Spending

CBO 10-Year Budget Update Shows $5.6 Trillion Surplus Now Only $1.0 Trillion

The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) annual "Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update," released on August 27, reports federal budget deficits ...

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Revenue & Spending

Freeze The Tax Cuts And Just Say No To More Tax Cuts

It's time to seriously work towards freezing the tax cuts that are scheduled to be phased in 2004, and oppose all new tax cuts. This is one of the most important issues facing us as a ...

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Open, Accountable Govt.

Data Quality Guidelines Continue to Churn

Even though the deadline of May 1st for agencies to produce drafts of their Data Quality Guidelines has long past, several agencies and departments have only recently completed and published their drafts for ...

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Open, Accountable Govt.

Chemical Security Heats Up

Sen. Jon Corzine’s (D-NJ)

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Open, Accountable Govt.

Sensitive but Unclassified

Last week officials from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested a meeting with various public interest groups concerned with public access to government information. The purpose was to discuss OMB’s upcoming efforts to ...

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Protecting Nonprofit Rights

Patents on Hypertext and Legal Challenges to Deep Linking

Nonprofits face an increasingly challenging online environment in which both the ability and the manner in which information from outside sources is linked across sites are open to ...

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Protecting Nonprofit Rights

Federal Judge Holds Parts of Stealth PAC Law Unconstitutional

The “Stealth PAC” law of 2000 requires political action committees (PACs) exempt under Section 527 of the federal tax code to register with the IRS and report their ...

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Protecting Nonprofit Rights

FEC Holds Hearings on Broadcast Regulations

Last week the Federal Election Commission (FEC) held public hearings on its proposed regulations implementing the ban on broadcasts that refer to federal candidates within 60 days of an election or 30 ...

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Protecting Nonprofit Rights

White House to Propose Regulations Implementing Faith-Based Agenda

According to a Washington Post story on August 31, the Bush administration does not plan to wait for Congress to pass the CARE Act before moving forward with ...

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Other Stories

Nonprofit Sector Research Fund Announces 2002 Grants Competition

The Nonprofit Sector Research Fund, a program of the Aspen Institute, announces the availability of grants to support research on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, ...

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