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Great Lakes and regulation

OMB Watch caught this item and reports: After significantly delaying the release of a report that identifies alarming toxic health risks for the Great Lakes region, the Centers for Disease…

Citizen’s Guide to economic knowledge

…on. I believe this is the first edition. It is coordinated between Treasury, OMB, and the Comptroller General. It is pdf. It reads like the last legacy of David Walker…

Post flambe

OMB Watch has an article on talk of a stimulus package and what it should not do. Actually, it does propose an idea, but I left that out. To quote:…

More on water resources and GATS

OMB Watch has posted a notice on something we rarely think about, and take for granted. The Raw Sewage Overflow Right-to-Know Act (H.R. 2452), introduced by Reps. Tim Bishop (D-NY)…

On the Temporary Increase in Tax Revenues

…in 2005 has not been unusually rapid, nor has it been stronger than was projected earlier this year by CBO or OMB. Thus, the unexpected gain in revenues does not…

Tiny Savings in Modest but Important Budgets

…cannot deny this claim and prefers to rephrase it in how the White House sees it. Well, let’s go directly to what the OMB wrote: The Administration is committed to…