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Obama doing more great work for government transparency

This is fantastic. Senators Obama and Coburn have introduced the Strengthening Transparency and Accountability in Federal Spending Act of 2008 (S. 3077), which would modify their 2006 transparency act. That first bill created USASpending.gov, a searchable web site of government outlays. … The new bill would expand the scope of information available via USASpending.gov, adding [...]

Comparing the Taxonomy of the Obama and Clinton Website Issues Menus

Obama on the left, Clinton on the right: First of all, Obama just plain covers more issues that Clinton: 21 vs. 14. Clinton has no technology section. Even Obama’s “Additional Issues” section covers some important points missed by Clinton. In this section Obama specifically covers dealing with the hurricane Katrina tragedy. (Although, to Clinton’s credit, [...]

Barack Obama’s technology platform

One of the areas where Obama impresses me is his technology platform. Not only is he hip on net neutrality and media consolidation, but he has a BIG emphasis on using technology to make the government more accessible and transperant. I was going to compare his platform to Clinton’s, but as far as I can [...]

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