A National Perspective

Speaker Highlights for Corporate Governance and the Vision of the Firm

Author: Eisen, Norm
Year: 2010

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A National Perspective
Norm Eisen
White House Counsel Office

The President has taken unprecedented steps to increase government transparency over the past year. This Administration's concrete commitments to openness include issuing the Open Government Directive, putting up more government information than ever before on data.gov and recovery.gov, reforming the government's FOIA processes, providing on-line access to White House staff financial reports and salaries, issuing an executive order to fight unnecessary secrecy and speed declassification, reversing an executive order tha previously limited access to presidential records, and webcasting White House meetings and conferences. The release also compliments our new lobbying rules, which in addition to closing the revolving door for lobbyists who work in government have also emphasized expanding disclosure of lobbyist contracts with the government.