H.R. 1081, the Accountability for Presidential Gifts ACT: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Financial Management and Intergove

House

Congress

United States

Committee On Government Reform

Subcommittee On Government Efficiency, Financial Management And Intergovernmental Relations

Government Printing Office

This three-part report, ELECTION 2000: Uncounted Votes & Election Reform, covers a number of vital issues raised concerning the U.S. presidential election process.     PART 1 is a statistical analysis originally issued by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) on the factors that affected uncounted votes in the 2000 presidential election, including the limitations of certain types of voting equipment in rendering a complete and accurate vote count following the 2000 presidential election.    PART 2 is a case study originally prepared for Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) by the Special Investigations Division of the Committee on Government Reform, which details election reform in the Detroit and the new voting technology that significantly reduced uncounted ballots in Election 2000.    PART 3 contains summaries of election procedures by state as well as the types of voting machines and other voting methods used by each state.  It also describes state recount and contest procedures including deadlines for initiating such proceedings.  Part 3 of this report was prepared by various members of the U.S. House of Representatives' Minority Staff of the Committee on Government Reform.

Election 2000: Uncounted Votes & Election Reform

Politics & Social Sciences

U.S. House of Representatives

Politics & Government

Cosimo Reports

<p>"Open and accountable government is one of the bedrock principles of our democracy. Yet virtually since Inauguration Day, questions have been raised about the Bush Administration's commitment to this principle. News articles and reports by independent groups over the last four years have identified a growing series of instances where the Administration has sought to operate without public or congressional scrutiny.[t]he Bush Administration has acted to restrict the amount of government information that is available." - Executive Summary, Secrecy in the Bush Administration Produced at the request of Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), this report is a comprehensive examination of secrecy in the Bush Administration. It analyzes how the Administration has implemented our nation's major open government laws - yet have worked consistently to undermine them. The information contained in ON RESTORING OPEN GOVERNMENT: Secrecy in the Bush Administration covers a wide assortment of topics from restricting the public release of the papers of past presidents to expansion of the authority to classify documents to the dramatic increase in the number of documents classified. Among the documents the Bush Administration have classified and refused to release to the public and members of Congress include: · Contact between energy companies and Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force · Communications between the Defense Department and the Vice President's office about contracts awarded to Halliburton · Documents describing the prison abuses at Abu Ghraib and the military's related actions · Information regarding what The White House knew about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction Included is a section relating to Restoring Open Government (H.R. Bill 5073) proposed in September 2004 by Rep. Henry A. Waxman and referred to The Committee on Government Reform.</p>

On Restoring Open Government: Secrecy in the Bush Administration

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