ProPublica Midnight Regulations
propublica.org 12/9/2008 — Agency: Environmental Protection Agency Formal Name: Drinking Water: Preliminary Regulatory Determination on Perchlorate At Issue: Perchlorate is a chemical component of rocket fuel that can contaminate water both naturally and, more frequently, ...

Obama Says Press Tougher Than National Media At McCain Meeting (VIDEO)
nbcchicago.com 11/17/2008 — Obama Says Press Tougher Than National Media At McCain Meeting (VIDEO)

Bush to Issue Midnight HHS Regulations
feministing.com 11/19/2008 — The New York Times has a piece this morning about the Health and Human Services (HHS) regulations that the Bush administration is planning to slip onto the books before he leaves office - you know, the one that would prevent family planning clinics ...

Obama Picks Sunstein to Oversee Regulations
voices.washingtonpost.com 1/8/2009 — By Michael D. Shear President-elect Barack Obama will name Cass Sunstein, a close friend and one of the nation's top constitutional lawyers, to a senior-level post in charge of government regulation, a transition official said. A professor of law at ...

Bush to relax endangered species regulations
usatoday.com 11/20/2008 — The rules must be published by Friday to take effect before Obama is sworn in Jan. 20. Otherwise, the new president could undo them with the stroke of a pen. The U.S. Interior Department rushed to complete the rule in three months, over the objections ...

Letter to President Bush on Midnight Regulations
cei.org 10/31/2008 — read more

Tell EPA NO on New Carbon Dioxide Regulations
stoptheaclu.com 11/25/2008 — -By Warner Todd Huston Friday Ends Public Comment Phase Friday marks the end of the allotted time for public comment about the EPA's new carbon emissions regulations. If you want to tell them NO on their jobs killing, economy busting plans to stop ...

Obama's Other Transition: Handling a Tougher Press Corps
washingtonpost.com 11/9/2008 — Barack Obama figured out early on that he had better limit his media consumption before it consumed him.

Government should send “price signals” on energy?
hotair.com 11/1/2008 — Just in case voters didn’t figure out Barack Obama’s economic instincts towards statism, this interview from 2007 on energy policy should open a few eyes. During the Democratic primaries, Obama had a lot more openness about his desire ...

Obama halts all regulations pending review - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com 1/20/2009 — WASHINGTON One of President Barack Obama 's first acts is to order federal agencies to halt all pending regulations until his administration can review them. The order went out Tuesday afternoon, shortly after Obama was inaugurated president, in a ...

Dot Earth: Readers to Obama: 10 Earthly Ideas on a Budget — NYT > Politics 11/19/2008
Readers ply President-elect Barack Obama with ways to attack environmental problems without much money. >

Political Perceptions: Eric Holder, Going Down Hard on the Right — WSJ.com: Washington Wire 11/19/2008
However well it might go down within Democratic circles, President-elect Barack Obama’s apparent choice of Eric Holder as his attorney general isn’t going down well on the right, if a piece by the editors of the National Review is any indication. ...

Source: Bill Clinton agrees to vetting — CNN Political Ticker 11/19/2008
Fmr. Pres. Bill Clinton has agreed to several concessions in Hillary Clinton’s vetting for Secretary of State. (CNN) –- A major obstacle in Hillary Clinton’s path to becoming President-elect Barack Obama’s secretary of state may be out of the way, ...

Pentagon to seek record funding, official says — CNN.com - Politics 11/19/2008
As President-elect Obama plans for his first budget early next year, the Pentagon is asking for a record amount, according to a senior Pentagon official.

Will Bush's midnight rules be reversible? (Politico) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 11/19/2008
Politico - Whether it’s relaxing pollution control standards for power plants or allowing loaded weapons into national parks, the Bush Administration is scrambling to approve or change as many federal rules as it can before it hands off ...