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  • Does FinReg Contain Anti-Transparency Measures?

    Sunlight Foundation — I’ve been reading about a brewing controversy over whether language in the new Financial Regulations Act — officially the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, aka HR 4173 — weakens public oversight over banks and investment companies. The alarm was publicly raised by Fox Business News last week over section 929I of the legislation.

  • Your media losing respect and credibility

    Sunlight Foundation — A blogger with an actual name–Andrew Breitbart–posts an edited video that leads to the firing of an employee at the U.S. Department of Agriculture–Shirley Sherrod–due to the constant media pressure from Fox News and other mainstream television outfits. When the full, unedited video came to light, Sherrod was vindicated.

  • Rangel and expulsion, ctd

    Sunlight Foundation — It look likes Rep. Charlie Rangel is surveying the battlefield that lies ahead as he faces the beginning of an adjudicatory hearing on ethics charges.

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