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obsidianwings.blogs.com - 11/21/2008
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Obama may need to send former Congressman Bill Archer a Christmas card this year – it should read “thanks to you and yours for helping me reverse Bush’s last-minute regulations.” Archer, you see, sponsored a little known 1996 law that could soon become Obama’s new best friend.
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mediamatters.org - 11/21/2008
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mediamatters.org —
In anticipation of the new administration, Beltway media
insiders are busy laying the groundwork for how reporters...
and pundits will treat the new team on Pennsylvania Avenue. "Once a president takes office ... an adversarial relationship ...
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Boehlert: Covering new presidents: the media's double ...
openleft.com - 11/22/2008
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openleft.com —
I really don't want to be pessimistic about
the new Obama administration. Rather, I much preferred my...
optimistic mood from last night, discussing how the House seems to be moving in a more progressive direction , and how cutting military spending was ...
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washingtonmonthly.com - 11/24/2008
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washingtonmonthly.com —
I n March 2001, U.S. Archivist John W.
Carlin received a letter from Alberto Gonzales, then counsel...
to the newly inaugurated president George W. Bush. It concerned an important deadline that was looming one that Bush owed to Richard Nixon. In 1974, ...
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Last Secrets of the Bush Administration - Charles Homans
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Brian Ross: The Neo-Cons Are Not Gone, Nor Forgotten
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... will be hard to unwind as well because the Justice Department, tasked with prosecuting enforcement of many of these rules, has active cases that are being pursued under neo-con policy. It could be years.
Some of these Obama can reverse by his own Executive orders. Others, though will fall back to an obscure Gingrich-era law enacted to knock down Bill Clinton's potential executive orders called the Congressional Review Act of 1996 (CRA).
The blog at Obsidian Wing in "The Best Law You've Never Heard of" observes:
For any new rule (major or ...
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