Category: Executive Branch

Governing and Social Networking

The Washington Times features an article on an interesting social networking website for government workers called GovLoop. The site was founded a year ago by Steve Ressler, 28, an information-technology specialist at the Department of Homeland Security. Already, more than 14,000 people have joined, creating nearly 500 subcommunities and more than 1,000 discussion forums. Brainstorming […]

New White House Lobbying Guidance

Roll Call reports that yesterday the White House announced formal guidance on stimulus lobbying.  The memo is available here.  (Although the White House Blog has been the place to find all of the earlier White House ethics updates, as of this writing the memo wasn’t posted there.)  The memo contains a new template form (Registered […]

Private Talks with Lobbyists

Obama administration officials met privately with healthcare industry lobbyists, according to this Post report. Obama on Wednesday night released the list of visits by health care executives after a government watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, announced it planned to sue to try to get White House visitor logs. Only names and […]