Letter to the Editor at the New York Times this morning. It’s worth posting in full. Published: January 28, 2009... View Article
Continue readingRecovery.gov
The Obama administration has promised that they will track the progress of project approved in the stimulus bill (H.R. 1)... View Article
Continue reading‘Direct to Constituent’ Communications
Mark Hannah has a thoughtful post about how the Obama administration and Congress are adopting what he terms “Direct to... View Article
Continue readingLobbyists Are People Too
A large number of President Obama’s supporters were outraged that one day after instituting strict lobbying restrictions for his administration... View Article
Continue readingNew Lobbying Rules on TARP
Just yesterday, I was posting about restricting TARP firms from using funds for political influence. Today, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner... View Article
Continue readingMicrosoft’s Gov. 2.0 advice
Susie Adams, Microsoft’s federal civilian and IGO chief technology officer, writing at Future Fed, the blog of Microsoft’s federal division,... View Article
Continue readingLearning Lessons
Earlier today, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer stated that, prior to consideration, the economic stimulus bill would be made available online... View Article
Continue readingWilliam Lynn and New Lobbying Restrictions
The new Executive Order on ethics and lobbying issued by President Obama has caused some problems for the nomination of... View Article
Continue readingExecutive Orders and Whitehouse.gov
The launch of the new WhiteHouse.gov web site created a flood of blog posts that simply sought to say, “cool.”... View Article
Continue readingMemorandum on Transparency
President Obama’s Memorandum on Transparency (still not published at WhiteHouse.gov) is just too important not to post in its entirety. ... View Article
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