Tag: Sunshine Week

Secrecy Shrouds Key Jackson Documents Despite Durbin’s Sunshine Week Praise

March 21, 2022
Judge Ketanji Brown JacksonSen. Charles GrassleySen. Dick DurbinSunshine WeekU.S. Supreme CourtUncategorizedUS
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) was among the bipartisan group of signers of a March 16 Sunshine Week letter to Comptroller General Gene Dodaro declaring that the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) “is crucial for ensuring transparency and accountability in government, but persistent challenges continue to limit citizens’ ability to access information under…

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Ernst Bill Would Create Executive Branch Transparency Czar in the White House

March 16, 2022
EcoHealth Alliancefederal spendingFOIAgovernment transparencySen. Joni ErnstSunshine WeekUS
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Executive branch officials who fail to follow federal laws guaranteeing public access to government documents would have to answer to a newly created director of openness in government (DOG) in the White House under a proposal introduced by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa). “Iowans, and all Americans, have a right to know what’s happening in Washington,…

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Ernst Bill Would Create an Executive Branch Transparency Czar in the White House

March 16, 2022
EcoHealth Alliancefederal spendingFOIAgovernment transparencySen. Joni ErnstSunshine WeekUS
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Executive branch officials who fail to follow federal laws guaranteeing public access to government documents would have to answer to a newly created Director of Openness in Government (DOG) in the White House under a proposal introduced by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa). “Iowans, and all Americans, have a right to know what’s happening in Washington,…

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Sen. Ernst to Introduce Bill Mandating Tracking White House, Executive Branch Carbon Emissions

March 17, 2021
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Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said Wednesday she is introducing legislation requiring the federal government to track and make public the carbon emissions produced by President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and executive branch departments and agencies. “What I’ve done is put forward some new legislation which tracks the carbon emissions of White House and…

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