STIMULUS FOES SEE VALUE IN SEEKING CASH
9 Feb 2010 // Jim McElhatton // Washington Times - Sen. Christopher S. Bond regularly railed against President Obama's economic stimulus plan as irresponsible spending that would drive up the national debt. But behind the scenes, the Missouri Republican quietly sought more than $50 million from a federal agency for two projects in his state.
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CREW ASKS C-SPAN NOT TO BROADCAST NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST
3 Feb 2010 // Washington, D.C. - Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (“CREW”) sent a letter to C-SPAN Chairman and CEO Brian Lamb asking that C-SPAN either refrain from broadcasting tomorrow’s National Prayer Breakfast, or at least properly identify the sponsor as the religious organization known as “the Fellowship,” or “the Family,” and provide proper context of the event to make clear it is not government-sponsored. More»
OPEN GOVERNMENT ADVOCATES URGE CHANGES TO OPEN GOVERNMENT DIRECTIVE
3 Feb 2010 // Washington, D.C. - Today, CREW and six other open government groups sent a letter to Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, outlining recommendations to the administration's Open Government Directive to agencies to post high value data sets to Data.gov. More»
CREW SEEKS RELIEF FOR VA’S DESTRUCTION OF PTSD DOCUMENTS
1 Feb 2010 // Washington, D.C. - Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a brief seeking discovery after the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) admitted to destroying documents responsive to CREW’s May 2008 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in CREW v. U.S. Dep’t of Veterans Affairs (D.D.C.). This lawsuit stems from CREW’s FOIA request for documents related to the VA’s policy of under-diagnosing post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), after an email was revealed in which VA employee Norma Perez discussed this policy. More»
CREW URGES PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESS NOT TO ATTEND SHADOWY FELLOWSHIP’S NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST
1 Feb 2010 // Washington, D.C. - Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) urged President Obama and all members of Congress not to attend this year’s National Prayer Breakfast, scheduled for February 4, 2010. The breakfast, designed to appear as if government-sanctioned, actually serves as a meeting and recruiting event for the shadowy Fellowship Foundation. More»
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