Office of Management and Budget

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• White House Office of Science & Tech Policy looks to open access to federally funded research

  
  JoeTrippi.com — Authority: 422
  Last week the Office of Management and Budget released its Open Government Directive which was immediately followed by announcements from more than 20 departments of their new open government initiatives. One of the programs that was announced last week was the Public Access Forum , sponsored by the White House ...
  2 hours ago

• Obamas Final Four

  
  The New Republic - the stash Feed — Authority: 136
  No, not that final four . This final four, from the OMB blog : [E]arlier this year, President Obama launched the SAVE Award — a program that offered every federal employee the chance to submit ideas about how government can save money and perform better. Over the course of three weeks, federal employees ...
  4 days ago

• White House: Open Government Directive

  
  Legal Research Plus — Authority: 467
  The White House today issued an Open Government Directive under the signature of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Peter Orszag to the heads of U.S. executive departments and agencies.The directive follows previous action by President Barack Obama, who issued a Memorandum on Transparency and Open ...
  6 days ago

• Snowe Seeks Repeal of ARC Loans

  
  As Maine Goes — Authority: 145
  OMB estimated 60 percent of ARC borrowers may default on their loans. Read More... read more
  6 days ago

• SAVE Award Idea Turned Away

  
  Chris Short — Authority: 135
  Three months ago, I submitted an idea to the Obama Administration’s SAVE Award program at the request of the Office of Management and Budget.  Per the OMB SAVE Award page: The President’s SAVE Award enables Federal employees from across government to submit their ideas for efficiencies and savings as part ...
  1 week ago

• Political Article on “President Obama’s Fiscal 2010 Budget “

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 552
  9/17/09 Political Article President Obama’s Fiscal 2010 Budget — Office of Management and Budget President Barack Obama is trying to improve the health care system by reducing prices, bettering health care quality, and making health care available for everyone. With Barack Obama’s new health care plan, he ...
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• Obama increases Pentagons budget by $60B

  
  Corrente — Authority: 620
  Wired : The Office of Management and Budget ” has approved a nearly $60 billion increase in the Pentagon’s base budget between fiscal years 2011 and 2015,” InsideDefense.com reports. That includes an extra $15 billion for the next fiscal year — “a 2.7 percent increase after inflation. This boost “would ...
  1 week ago

• Only Thing Rising Faster than Demand for Government Debt is Supply of It

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 522
  Governments benefit from teaser rates. Wait til they come to an end... There are so many breathtaking things going on around us we practically suffocate. Last week, three-month US Treasury-bills yielded all of 0.015% interest. Some yields were below zero. In effect, investors gave the government money. The government ...
  2 weeks ago

• Genachowskis frequent treks to White House (FCC Chairman)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski appeared to have visited executive branch offices 47 times between January 20 and August 31, according the the White House visitors log released today. By comparison, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner made only five appearances. Genachowski has had plenty to discuss with White House ...
  2 weeks ago

• OFPP Nominee Confirmed

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 133
  This past Saturday evening, the Senate took a break from considering health care insurance reform to confirm Daniel Gordon to be the next administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP). President Obama nominated Gordon on Oct. 2. A former deputy general counsel of the Government Accountability ...
  2 weeks ago

• How Much Will Escalation Cost?

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 706
  The L.A. Times has a fascinating article about the difficulties in accounting for estimated costs in a troop surge in Afghanistan. The calculations so far have produced a sweeping range. The Pentagon publicly estimates it will cost $500,000 a year for every additional service member sent to the war zone. ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Cost of War, Now With the Accountant of War

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  Apropos of my query why Peter Orszag, the chief of the White House Office of Management and Budget, wasn’t in yesterday’s all-hands Afghanistan strategy session , J osh Gerstein at Politico has a great catch : Spotted in the official White House photo of Monday night’s war council meeting on Afghanistan and ...
  2 weeks ago

• CMS looks to EHR data to combat waste and fraud

  
  News — Authority: 125
  CMS is looking at EHR reporting as a way to help the embattled agency weed out payment inefficiencies and combat rampant Medicare and Medicaid fraud. "We hope to be able to use data available through the use of new electronic health record reporting that can help in the design of new and innovative approaches to ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Cost of War: More than the “Billions Spent on Guns and Bullets”

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 694
  I have consistently supported publicly honoring our fallen heroes—with the consent of family members—when they touch American soil for the last time at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. Much apprehension and controversy have surrounded this issue. Finally, this spring, the Obama administration implemented a ...
  4 weeks ago

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