Obama Budget Stresses Transparency

President Barack Obama's FY2010 budget includes a few basic lines on e-government, transparency and public participation as part of the policy-making process: 1) Maintain Recovery.gov, a site that allows individuals to see where recovery funds are going, for what purpose, and to what result, 2) Give the public five days to review all non-emergency bills before they are signed, 3) Disclose each earmark and the name of the legislator who asked for each earmark, and make this information available on a searchable public Web site, and 4) Clean up military contracting by establishing the reporting requirements, accounting, and accountability.