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Feb 8, 2016

Top 400 Taxpayers See Tax Rates Rise, But There’s More to the Story

As Americans were gathering party supplies to greet the New Year, the Internal Revenue Service released their annual report of cumulative tax data reported on the 400 tax r...

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Feb 4, 2016

Chlorine Bleach Plants Needlessly Endanger 63 Million Americans

Chlorine bleach plants across the U.S. put millions of Americans in danger of a chlorine gas release, a substance so toxic it has been used as a chemical weapon. Greenpeace’s new repo...

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Jan 25, 2016

U.S. Industrial Facilities Reported Fewer Toxic Releases in 2014

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data for 2014 is now available. The good news: total toxic releases by reporting facilities decreased by nearly six percent from 2013 levels. Howe...

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Jan 22, 2016

Methane Causes Climate Change. Here's How the President Plans to Cut Emissions by 40-45 Percent.

UPDATE (Jan. 22, 2016): Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its proposed rule to reduce methane emissions...

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Delay Says the Constitution Doesn't Mandate the Seperation o

Mar 2, 2005 by Guest Blogger

Advocating a bold reversal of constitutional law, Rep. Tom DeLay says that the Constitution does not mandate a seperatation of church and state. From Congress Daily AM: House Majority Leader DeLay said Tuesday there is no constitutional guarantee of separation of church and state as the Supreme Court prepared to take up a case challenging the display of the Ten Commandments on the Texas Capitol grounds, the Associated Press reported.

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The Panel on the Nonprofit Sector Releases Interim Report To

Mar 1, 2005 by Guest Blogger

Today I attended a press conference at the Dirksen Building to announce the release of Independent Sector's Panel on the Nonprofit Sector Interim Report. The Interim Report contains 21 recommendations to the Senate Finance Committee on measures to regulate the nonprofit sector. The recommendations are the product of the Panel's 5 Working Groups and, supposedly, public recommendations on the first draft. The recommendations are based largely in reponse to the Senate Finance Cmte's discussion draft.

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Bush Pushes Faith Based Initiative

Mar 1, 2005 by Guest Blogger

President George W. Bush reassured a gathering of religious and civic leaders this morning (3/1/05) that he is committed to pursuing his Faith-Based and Community Initiative to expand the role of religious organizations in the delivery of government-funded social services. "Hopefully you will be reassured that this initiative is one that has a lot of impetus, and be reassured that we want to help change America," President Bush said to some 250 guests attending the White House Faith-Based and Community Initiatives Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C.

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527 Hearing Details Set

Feb 28, 2005 by Guest Blogger

Senate Rules and Administration Committee (Chairman Lott, R-Miss.) will hold a hearing on pending legislation that would revise the regulation of organizations registered under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code, which governs certain political entities that expend funds independent of specific candidate's campaign organizations. DATE: Tuesday, March 8, 9:30 a.m. PLACE: 301 Russell Bldg.

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Sen. Inhofe Investigating a Coalition of State and Local Air

Feb 28, 2005 by Guest Blogger

Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Inhofe's staff is investigating a coalition of state and local air quality officials that recently testified against his "Clear Skies" legislation. The State and Territorial Air Pollution Program Administrators/Association of Local Air Pollution Control Officials was asked to provide financial records, including IRS filings and details of government grants or contracts. The groups' executive director, Bill Becker, accused the Senate panel of trying "to intimidate the associations, and our members are very troubled by that."

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New Report Investigates Social Security Administration

Feb 28, 2005 by Guest Blogger

A new report by the Committee on Government Reform (Minority) investigates whether the Social Security Administration has altered its communications to the public to build support for President Bush's Social Security Proposals.

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Nonprofit Coalition Opposes New 527 Legislation

Feb 28, 2005 by Guest Blogger

Check out the article about a coalition of groups (including OMB Watch) opposing the new 527 legislation. Click here for an analysis of the pending legislation.

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Clinton Introduces the "Count Every Vote" Bill

Feb 25, 2005 by Guest Blogger

Sen. Hillary Clinton recently introduced the "Count Every Vote" bill, cosponsored by Sens. Kerry, Boxer, Lautenberg, and Mikulski. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones (D-OH) plans to introduce a House counterpart. The bill would provide a series of reforms designed to provide a minimal level of interstate and intrastate uniformity in voting procedures, while encouraging greater voter participation in general.

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Alabama Senate Passes Nonprofit Accountability Bill

Feb 24, 2005 by Guest Blogger

Over the objections of the Christian Coalition, the Alabama Senate approved legislation Tuesday that would require organizations to disclose their donors when they run issue ads during election seasons in Alabama.

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Uganda Grant - More Evidence the Grant was Unfounded?

Feb 24, 2005 by Guest Blogger

This week, we did a Watcher story about USAID giving an abstience grant to a Ugandan nonprofit that recieved a negative rating by an independent panel. Today, the New York Times documents a new study about the ineffectiveness of the promotion of abstience in Uganda. Interesting. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/24/national/24aids.html

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