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2008-12-03
MASSPIRG released a new report today highlighting the benefits and need for an open and transparent state budget.
2008-11-06
Overriding Priority for Fixing Washington: Repair the public financing system for presidential elections and create a new public financing system for congressional elections.
2008-03-11
Statement of Gary Kalman, Director of U.S. PIRG’s Federal Legislative Office
2008-02-15
Our organizations strongly urge you to make a public commitment now to use the public financing system in the presidential general election if you are the Democratic nominee and if the Republican nominee also agrees to use the public financing system in the general election.
2007-12-20
Statement of Gary Kalman, Director, U.S. PIRG’s Federal Legislative Office
2007-12-05
Statement of Gary Kalman, Director of U.S. PIRG’s Federal Legislative Office, on the introduction of the Presidential Funding Act of 2007
2007-11-15
As an increasing number of states launch what they call “Google Government” --- using the Internet to make accessible detailed information about where taxpayer dollars go ---a new report highlights how far Massachusetts lags behind this national trend.
2007-10-03
Companies with immediate past histories of shoddy work and fraudulent practices still receive billions of dollars in federal contracts, according to a new report by the United States Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) Education Fund.
2007-09-14
Today the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 will become law. The Act represents far reaching changes to the lobbying and ethics rules that govern the interactions between lobbyists and legislators.
2007-08-02
Today’s vote in the U.S. Senate was a terrific win for the American people. Following the House action earlier this week, the landmark bill now heads to the President’s desk where we expect he will sign the bill.

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