thenextright.com - 1/7/2009
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President-elect Barack Obama has talked the talk about government transparency. But will he walk the walk? House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) stole the spotlight on the issue yesterday when congressional leaders sat down with Obama to discuss his economic stimulus package .
According ...
blogs.abcnews.com - 1/6/2009
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blogs.abcnews.com —
Democratic and Republican sources tell ABC News that
President-elect Obama's meeting with the bipartisan congressional leadership of
the House and Senate went well with some quick agreement on the need for expeditious action as well as oversight and ...
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President-elect and House Republicans Bond Over ...
washingtonmonthly.com - 1/6/2009
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washingtonmonthly.com —
OBAMA'S LEAP OF FAITH.... The president-elect sat down
with bipartisan congressional leadership on the Hill yesterday, and
made a pitch for an economic recovery package. Despite significant Democratic majorities in both chambers, Barack Obama gave ...
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Obama's leap of faith
corner.nationalreview.com - 1/13/2009
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Republicans are taking President-elect Obama at his word
that he wants bipartisan input for the stimulus package.
To that end, they will be holding an unofficial hearing in the Cannon office building on Thursday morning. A House Republican working ...
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GOP Seeks Alternative Stimulus Proposals
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Daily Digest: CTO Watch -- The Rising Stock of California PhDs
techPresident —
Chief Openness Officer, PhD: As we keep up the vigil on Barack Obama's naming of a Chief Technology Officer, let's have a look at both what some close watchers want from the first federal CTO and what the gossip on the street says about what the incoming administration has in mind for the job. A great pick for CTO, says the Sunlight Foundation's John Wonderlich, would focus on making democracy more transparent and interactive.* (Note that that's a description that stops well short of a possibility we've touched on here in the digest, of a CTO charged with pumping up ...
How Would You Stimulate the Economy?
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
House Republican Whip Eric Cantor wants you to have a seat at the table as Congress debates the best way to promote economic growth. The Virginia Republican opened his website to public comments and encouraged citizens to send video submissions via YouTube.
Cantor has made transparency an important factor in the stimulus debate. Earlier in the week, he challenged Obama to create a real-time online ledger of the stimulus spending.
For conservatives to successfully fight the bad ideas in Obama’s plan, they will need alternative ideas of their own. My colleagues ...
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