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Wood: Recovery Board lessons learned can enhance governmentwide accountability
The recently-launched Government Accountability and Transparency Board--a follow-on to the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, which is scheduled to sunset in September 2013--should heed
DATA Act aims to institutionalize Recovery Board
Bills in the House and Senate would make a Recovery Board-like entity a permanent fixture of the Washington, D.C. landscape. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) introduced June 16 companion legislation to
Devaney: Recipient reporting yields better data than agency reporting in transparency initiatives
Data reporting from federal-fund recipients is more accurate and less costly to report than if the data were gleaned from agencies, according to Earl Devaney, chairman of the Recovery Accountability
OMB stops issuing .gov URLs
The federal government has stopped issuing .gov URLs in an effort to cut back on confusing, duplicate or unnecessary websites, including several President Barack Obama poked fun at in a video message
White House launches Campaign to Cut Waste
Vice President Joe Biden will head an effort called the Campaign to Cut Waste in order to get "rid of the pointless waste and stupid spending that doesn't benefit anybody," announced President Barack
Recovery Act contracting data posted online
President Obama's promise for an open and of transparent government will get a true test today when his administration uses the Internet to post information on the contracts approved by federal
The debut of Recovery.gov
The curtain will rise on the revamped Recovery.gov site on Oct. 15. The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board said the site will publish contracts issued directly by federal agencies by Oct.
Stimulus watchdog site cuts red tape for data
The board overseeing economic stimulus spending received a waiver from the 1995 Paperwork Reduction Act that allows it to collect recipient information online without giving the public notice. OMB
Is Recovery.gov over the top with its $18 million contract?
Criticism began as soon as Recovery.gov announced last week it is spending $18 million to overhaul its website. But Earl Devaney, chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, which
The watchdog over stimulus money
Someone has to be in charge of policing the spending of $787 billion stimulus package, and that person is Earl E. Devaney, the inspector general for the Interior Department. He's been given this
