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Obama Budget Chief: Stimulus Bill Contracts Are Going Online
Peter Orszag, the nominee to become Office of Management and Budget chief under Obama, just elaborated a bit on the incoming administration's plans to instill transparency in the contracting process as they implement the economic stimulus bill.
Appearing before the Senate government affairs committee today, Orszag said:
We plan to create a Web site that will contain information about the contracts and include PDFs or contracts themselves, and also financial information about the contracts.
A welcome promise, and one that will surely be a gold mine for us blogger types. Plus, you've gotta love the response from Joe Lieberman (I-CT), chairman of the committee:
Define PDFs.
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That's our Joe.
PDFs? Those are Public Displays of Finances, Joe.
January 14, 2009 5:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rim-shot!
January 14, 2009 5:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lemmee guess, Joe doesn't own a computer. Or he does, but it's intimidating.
January 14, 2009 5:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
That is pretty awesome, out of curiosity where is the Lieberman quote taken from? Is there like a transcript of Orszag's appearance before the committee somewhere?
January 14, 2009 5:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh fer cryin out loud Joe send a telegram to Ted Stevens in Alaska and ask him. He can explain for ya.
January 14, 2009 5:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
HA!
You take your document, put it into a little canister, and it shoots down the tube!
January 14, 2009 5:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
He should have distributed everything on punch cards so Joe wouldn't have felt left out.
January 14, 2009 5:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
As much as we love to bash on Lieberman, if Orszag actually said "PDFs or contracts themselves", then it is a perfectly valid question to inquire which PDFs might be in question.
January 14, 2009 6:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama has been setting up a few websites lately and I hope he finds a way to let the general public know about them. He needs a balance of ideas not just the same supporters giving their same ideas.
January 14, 2009 6:29 PM | Reply | Permalink