Category: Executive Branch

The Sunlight Foundation Blog posts an important OMB Memorandum (M-09-16 dated April 7, 2009) clarifying the lobbying restrictions laid out in President Obama’s March 20, 2009 memorandum on the topic.

Is there any truth to the rumor that Norm Eisen made First Dog Bo put a paw print on a letter promising ethical behavior during his time in the White House?   If not, someone can read him this Post piece on a potential Ritz-Carlton gift in the form of a plush dog house (pictured here).

The Obama administration has not given any signs that intends to depart from the practice of naming donors or bundlers to ambassadorships, according to this report.  The Clinton administration tended to favor a “cash-plus” approach, in which big donor Democrats often had a modicum of knowledge of the languages or issues in the countries to […]