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Thursday, February 15, 2007
Implementation of Government Spending Website Moves Forward
Today, the Office of Management and Budget launched www.fedspending.gov, a website to provide initial information on the agency's efforts and plans to implement the Coburn/Obama law that was enacted last fall, and solicit input from the public about how they should move forward. OMB is required to implement the requirements under the Coburn/Obama law by January 1, 2008.
OMB held a conference call this morning for bloggers to announce the new website and take feedback and questions from interested individuals about the implementation process and other issues related to this effort to increase government transparency. Many blogs were instrumental in providing the final push that got Coburn and Obama's bill initially passed in the Senate and the White House actively reached out to them before signing the bill. On the call, Robert Shea, Deputy Director for Management at OMB said some very nice things about our website, FedSpending.org and reiterated OMB's hope that we will collaborate with them to implement the new law.
For comments and coverage of the conference call this moring, see the following blogs:
Robert Bluey
Captain Ed Morrisey
Red State
And don't forget to log on to www.fedspending.gov to share your thoughts with OMB on implementing the new law.
Posted by Adam Hughes
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