Category: Executive Branch

TARP Transparency at Issue

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date September 24, 2009
Categories In Executive Branch

The Hill reports on frustrations over transparency in the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP).

White House’s Latest on Lobbyists

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date September 23, 2009
Categories In Executive Branch, LDA

Norm Eisen announced new lobbyist restrictions on The White House Blog today. The White House has informed executive agencies and departments that it is our aspiration that federally-registered lobbyists not be appointed to agency advisory boards and commissions. These appointees to boards and commissions, which are made by agencies and not the President, advise the […]

Former Lobbyists in Government and the Case of Anne Ferro

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date September 23, 2009
Categories In Executive Branch, LDA

This Times editorial discusses issues surrounding President Obama’s nomination of trucking industry lobbyist Anne Ferro.