Final Bulletin for Agency Good Guidance Practices

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Many Hurdles Lay Ahead for Ethics and Lobbying Reform

Jul 19, 2007 by Amanda Adams*

After much frustration in trying to send the ethics and lobbying reform legislation to conference committee, RollCall ($$) reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) have decided to abandon the normal conference committee process and will use a parliamentary tactic rarely used to push the legislation. According to the article, the plan would be that the House and Senate votes on identical language without amendments attached to circumvent the conference process.

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Executive Order 13422 (amending E.O. 12866)

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Walker, Contracting Sage

Jul 19, 2007 by Matt Lewis

Regular readers of this blog may recall a time when I really didn't like GAO chief David M. Walker. He has a strange understanding of the long-term fiscal challenge. His speeches on the matter caused me to call him a nutcase.

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When Contractors Attack

Jul 19, 2007 by Matt Lewis

Which contractors have racked up the most expensive misconduct charges since 1995? The answer's at Project On Government Oversight's federal contractor misconduct database, which has just been updated. Some hints: Halliburton isn't even in the top 10. And two of the top three are household names.

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Mid-Session's Muted Myopia

Jul 19, 2007 by Dana Chasin

In its Mid-Session budget review last week, the White House ballyhooed the good "news" that the FY 2007 federal budget deficit projection was down from OMB's original February forecast of $244 billion to a revised $205 billion. But looking out the next five years, the muted Mid-Session story is of unmitigated worsening news on the deficit front. The deficit projected for FY08-FY12 was actually higher than what was originally forecast -- by $137 billion.

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Another Reason to Support a Tobacco Tax Increase

Jul 19, 2007 by Craig Jennings

Big Tobacco is against it. On Monday, the parent company of four tobacco companies, Reynolds America, issued a press release in which they decry the notion that Congress needs more people to smoke in order to fund an SCHIP expansion. "Policy makers will somehow need to recruit new smokers if they insist on using the tobacco tax revenue to support SCHIP at proposed funding levels over the long term," wrote Heritage Foundation authors Michelle C. Bucci and William W. Beach.

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Coalition of the Billing

Jul 18, 2007 by Dana Chasin

OK -- quick: how many folks are serving Uncle Sam in Iraq right now? 150,000? 200,000? Try 340,000. How's that? Per the Los Angeles Times: More than 180,000 civilians -- including Americans, foreigners and Iraqis -- are working in Iraq under U.S. contracts, according to State and Defense department figures obtained by the Los Angeles Times. Including the recent troop surge, 160,000 troops and a few thousand civilian government employees are stationed in Iraq.

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Senate Examines Chinese Imported Product Safety

Jul 18, 2007 by Matthew Madia

In 2007 alone, Chinese imports have been responsible for a nation-wide tire recall, a ban on five types of seafood containing potentially toxic additives, toys manufactured with lead-based paint, contaminated pet-food, and various other defective goods. In response to these concerns the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held an unofficial meeting today to shed light on why government agencies have been so slow to combat product safety violations.

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Attention Advocacy Groups Working To Protect Voters' Rights

Jul 18, 2007 by Amanda Adams*

One of the new commissioners on the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) seeks input from voter rights organizations. If you would like to provide such a contribution, see this press release from EAC Vice-Chair Rosemary E. Rodriguez. "I seek to gauge whether there is interest in participating in monthly brownbag lunch discussions about issues that impact voters as we approach the 2008 election. I also seek input on the agenda, including the topics of discussion, for these sessions, which would take place at EAC's office in Washington, D.C."

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