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“The Fourth Amendment grants people the right to be secure in their persons, papers, houses, and effects. The right attaches to areas in which people have a reasonable expectation of privacy, requiring that the government obtain a warrant before they search such areas. Emails are clearly "papers." Ho…”

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In Response to: Before Searching Your Email, Should Law Enforcement Officials Have To Get A Warrant?

“Under existing law, any person -- corporate or natural -- can already sue for judicial review of any regulation after it passes. However, virtually the only type of plaintiff that sues to invalidate regulations are big business mess and their interest groups. This bill would provide big businesses a…”

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In Response to: Do High-Cost Regulations Need a Judicial Review Before Going Into Effect?

“As an ardent supporter of our government accountability organizations. I initially wanted to support this bill. However, I then remembered that the Holman rule exists, that President-elect Trump demanded the names of federal employees working on politically-sensitive projects, and that agencies succ…”

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In Response to: Does the Government Accountability Office Need More Power to Investigate Fraud?

“A significant and growing portion of the public has been calling for an audit of the Federal Reserve for decades. Additionally, there are allegations of Fed corruption that should finally be investigated. Why not finally give them what they want? It wouldn't cost a prohibitive amount of money and it…”

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In Response to: Audit the Fed: Does Congress Need a Review of the Federal Reserve's Operations?

“The temptation to meddle in our election is strong. This will provide a powerful disincentive. However, the definition of "meddle" and "interfere" must be sufficiently stringent that ordinary people -- e.g. social media users -- don't become unnecessarily sanctioned.”

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In Response to: Do Foreign People and Governments That Meddle in U.S. Elections Need to be Sanctioned?

“This bill will do nothing to address the actual problem at the VA. The VA's managers actually need monthly trainings from the U.S. Office of Special Counsel on the prohibited personnel practices of 5 U.S..C. 2302. ”

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In Response to: Should VA Employees' Misconduct Stay on Their Permanent Records?

“Government needs to recruit the best. The PIF program is one way to do that. It has served us well so far; let's continue it indefinitely.”

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In Response to: Should the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program be Permanent?

“Vote against Jeff Sessions. The Attorney General should be capable of evenhanded law enforcement and show affinity for all aspects and participants of American life. Sessions is a former KKK member who has a history of racist comments and an inability to relate to minorities. He is therefore unfit t…”

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In Response to: Get to Know Senator Jeff Sessions, Trump’s Pick for Attorney General

“Vote against Rex Tillerson. He has far too many conflicts of interest and no government experience.”

- JEFF E

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In Response to: ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson Nominated as Trump’s Secretary of State

“The Senate should block this attempt to nullify validly-promulgated regulations. The bill has a ham-fisted attack on President Obama wrought by dismantling the work of thousands of federal employees. Nonsensical and obstructionist.”

- JEFF E

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In Response to: Should a Lame Duck President's Final Regulations be Blocked?

“The current regime works very well. No need to fix what isn't broken, especially when this could compromise the prophylactic, shareholder-protective effect of Regulation D.”

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In Response to: Should it be Easier for Startups to Pitch Their Plans to Angel Investors?

“I cannnot support this list in the age of the Holman rule. In preparing OMB's list, agencies would probably have to submit lists of employees who work on each program and their respective salaries. A hostile Congress could kill a program it doesn't like by slashing to $1 the salaries of employees wo…”

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In Response to: Creating a Catalogue of All Federal Programs and How They Spend Your Tax Dollars

“As a lawyer specializing in administrative law, I strongly oppose this bill. It has been introduced and defeated over and over again by this Congress and its predecessors. It does nothing to improve the operation of government, or even "streamline" government operations. Rather, it renders governmen…”

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In Response to: Should Government Agencies Streamline Their Rule-Making Process And Justify Spending?

“The Office of Special Counsel performs a valuable function by defending brace whistleblowers from undeserved retaliation. OSC's whistleblower protection function has saved the jobs and livelihoods of our most honor-bound citizens, encouraged others to come forward, and informed the public of the wor…”

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In Response to: Does the Agency Protecting Federal Whistleblowers Need to be Reauthorized?

“This bill seems like an industry initiative intended to cripple the CFTC. Most onerous is the cost-benefit analysis, which will lead to endless litigation against the agency. Also removes time-honored restrictions and been veto-threatened by White House experts.”

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In Response to: Should a Reauthorization for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Come With Reforms Attached?

“This bill would cripple the administrative state and make it impossible for the government to respond to nascent issues that threaten the public.”

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In Response to: Should Congress Have More Power to Approve (or Reject) Major Regulations?