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The fine print: Bush forces a shift in regulatory thrust
This three-day series revealed how small, subtle regulatory changes by the Bush administration at three federal agencies have had large consequences for the American people. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has eliminated nearly five times as many pending regulations as it has completed. The Data Quality Act, slipped into an appropriations bill, directs the Office of Management and Budget to ensure all information disseminated by the government is reliable, but in practice it allows industries to challenge the need for stiffer regulations. A one-word change in another regulation accelerated "mountaintop removal" mining because the debris was reclassified from "waste" to "fill."
Tags: federal regulatory process; Occupational Safety and health Administration; OSHA; Office of Management and Budget; OMB; Data Quality Act; federal government; Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions.
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The Insiders
The George W. Bush administration has 6,722 government jobs to fill with political appointees. For the all hoopla surrounding the cabinet nominees, some very real power is wielded by those with titles such as "deputy assistant secretary of health and Human Services for healthy policy in the office of the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation." This article looks at the behind-the-scenes post in each cabinet.
Tags: EPA; NHTSA; Treasury; Federal Energy Regulatory Committee; FERC; Office of Federal Procurement Policy; OMB; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; OSHA; Department of Defense; DOD
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No title (id: 10687)
The Washington Post details the reasons for the unprecedented growth of the government's health program for the poor; the series attributes the rising costs to the manipulation of the federal cost-sharing mechanism by state governments, lawsuits by nursing home organizations, and a secretive effort by Washington lawmakers to expand Medicaid by exploiting the federal budget process between 1984-1990, January - February 1994.
Tags: DC Morgan health Department of Health and Human Services NCFA John Dingell OMB 39 pages
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"What the Smartest Man in Washington Doesn't Understand. And Why It Will Hurt You. While OMB Fiddles With Numbers, Washington Burns."
This report examines how political oversight of what one scholar once called the "Eyes and Ears of the President" - the Office of Management and Budget - allowed the Bush presidency to slip needlessly into billion-dollar windfalls, from Savings & Loan scandals to faulty nuclear power plants to a crisis at Housing and Urban Development.
Tags: audit; Budget and Accounting Act; watchdog
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No title (id: 6974)
Washington Monthly finds that when the HUD inspector general speaks, nobody listens; thus the graft, corruption and politics in the agency went unreported even though information was available, January 1990.
Tags: Watt Schuger OMB