Simpler, less prescriptive processes with greater transparency would produce better, faster and cheaper results, minimize political favoritism, increase competition among contractors, and improve the quality of work done on the taxpayer's dime.

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Various laws have been passed to eliminate bureaucratic processes and create more transparency in government.

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We agreed to stand by these commitments with full transparency through appropriate processes as to their implementation.

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The economic downturn and expansion of government requirements have triggered many companies to increase their transparency and accountability around mission-critical business processes.

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Kickstarter, and other crowd-funding sites like it, allow for a kind of transparency that is absent in almost all other fund-raising and business growth processes.

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Mr. Weiss has also worked in various international fora to enhance regulatory transparency, incentivize the development of standards through open, transparent, consensus-based processes, encourage the use of good regulatory practices (including cost-benefit analysis), and facilitate greater regulatory alignment with major U.S. trading partners.

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