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...caricature has always been that the faith community wants to ram its agenda down people's throats or that we're just interested in our own issues, like religious liberty. What if we were looked to instead as a vital resource for overcoming poverty or converting the nation to a clean energy economy? Who knows the factions and conflicts overseas better than organizations like World Vision and Catholic Charities? Why not use us as a resource...
Whatever your thoughts - maybe using American-made materials will create jobs, or maybe it's just another way for Congress to bring home the pork - readthestimulus.org is pleasantly agenda-free. Users can comment on individual bill pages, and while most commenters swing right (renewable energy investments really get people fired up), the project's goal is to simply get the information out there. "The whole project is frankly in some sense stupid," says Rob Neppell, president of new media development company Kithbridge, who runs the website. "It's stupid because we're doing a lot of reengineering, we're trying...
...charge, most of Bush's new rules are on the books, and changing them will take time and effort from an already burdened White House. "The Obama Administration will be saddled with reversing harmful Bush rules at the same time that Obama wants to enact his own agenda," says John Walke, a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC...
...White House can ask Congress to vote down any rule finalized after a certain date, which would include all the midnight regulations. But that law has been used successfully only once since it was enacted, and exercising it would take valuable energy away from Obama's legislative agenda...
Read "Despite the Economy, Obama Vows to Press Green Agenda...