Protecting Nonprofit Rights

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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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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FEC Admonishes Right to Life Group

Feb 24, 2005 by Guest Blogger

The Federal Election Commission has admonished Wisconsin Right to Life for posting endorsements of President Bush and others on its Web site last year, but the group that brought the complaint is mulling a lawsuit to force the FEC to take more action. For more information.

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Journalism Investigation

Feb 24, 2005 by Guest Blogger

A follow up on our article. Yesterday, Democratic Reps. John Conyers (Mich.) and Louise Slaughter (N.Y.) asked the Government Accountability Office to expand its investigation of illegal government propaganda efforts by looking into James Guckert's work as a White House reporter for the Web sites Talon News and GOPUSA. They claimed the administration "gave prepacked print stories to Mr. Guckert, which he reprinted wholesale."

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Analysis of H.R. 235, The Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act

On Jan. 4, 2005, the “Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act of 2005” was introduced by Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) in the U.S. House of Representatives. The legislation is a revised version of a bill he has introduced in every Congress since 2001.

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Watcher Out Today!

Feb 23, 2005 by Guest Blogger

The new Watcher has arrived! It has tons of articles on 527 legislation, what's new in faithbased policy and political cronyism in PEPFAR grants. Take a look!

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