JOHN MURTHA DIES; LONGTIME CONGRESSMAN WAS MASTER OF PORK-BARREL POLITICS
9 Feb 2010 // Carol D. Leonnig and Martin Weil // Washington Post - Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), a Vietnam War veteran who staunchly supported military spending and became a master of pork-barrel politics, died Monday at Virginia Hospital Center. The 19-term lawmaker died from complications of gallbladder surgery. He was 77. More»
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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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