government transparency

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100316/D9EFLQB80.html PROMISES, PROMISES: Is gov't more open with Obama? “…………….. An Associated Press review of Freedom of Information Act reports filed by 17 major agencies found that the use of nearly every one of the law's nine exemptions to withhold...

"President Obama, Senate and House leaders, many of your rank-and-file members, and the nation's editorial pages have all talked about the value of transparent discussions on reforming the nation's health care system. Now that the process moves to the critical stage of reconciliation between...

On the contrary, FOI works both ways, that is when it’s not subject to FOI requests, as this information was, there is a legal responsibility to not release it.

The request to put the final language of the Baucus bill online for 72 hours before the committee Senate Finance Committee voted on it... Baucus pontificates: "It's too difficult to put health care bill online" "It would take staffers at least two weeks to put it on line." "We're voting on...