Obama Announces New Ethics Rules, Freezes Aides’ Salaries

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Obama Announces New Ethics Rules, Freezes Aides’ Salaries

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President Obama says “[t]ransparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones” of his administration. To that end, he will toughen lobbying restrictions and require all federal agencies to give high priority to Freedom of Information Act requests. The president also announced a pay freeze for about 100 of his highest-paid aides.

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And Obama also revealed what he called a “clean break” from existing rules spelling out when and under what circumstances administration officials could work on issues on which they lobbied governmental agencies before.

He said there would be a two-year, rather than a one-year, waiting period for government officials to be able to work on such issues and said they would “not be able to work on matters you lobbied on or White House agencies you lobbied during the last two years.”

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By troublesum, January 22, 2009 at 2:30 pm Link to this comment

This is just theatrics. What he really needs to do is to stop the banks from paying dividends to their shareholders with bailout funds.

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By mike112769, January 21, 2009 at 4:57 pm Link to this comment

How about NEVER being able to work on matters you have lobbied in the past? Lobbyists are a blight on our government.

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By Hemi*, January 21, 2009 at 3:02 pm Link to this comment

Luckily for those aides there will still be lots of lobbyist “party favors” available to help tide them over. Nothing like “the man” and Barry is now “the man”, holding you down.

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