White House Unveils New Stimulus Site
The White House Web team unveiled yet another Web page on Monday -- WhiteHouse.gov/Recovery -- that provides snapshots of economic stimulus package dollars at work around the country. The "Roadmap to Recovery" features details about the broad range of activity planned across the United States in the second 100 days of implementing the $787 billion federal boost. The page will also provide an opportunity for visitors to share stories through comments, photos and videos. Recovery.gov remains the go-to site for tracking Recovery Act spending, officials said. "What we want to do is we want average Americans as they're watching this happen this summer, as they're watching it happen in their neighborhoods, the parks they're visiting, whatever, we want them knowing that what we're doing is fully transparent, we're fully accountable, and we want them to watch us closely, and we want their input," Vice President Biden said.
In other transparency news, House Minority Leader John Boehner continues to pummel President Obama over his pledge to post non-emergency legislation online for five days before signing it into law. To date, Obama is one for 23 in providing that review period, Boehner's office said. "No one - not a member of Congress, anyone in the administration, or any American - read the trillion-dollar 'stimulus' spending bill before Congress passed it and the President signed it into law," Boehner said in an e-mailed statement. "If the public had some time to review the bill, perhaps the American people would have discovered that it authorized the AIG executive bonuses, sent checks to the deceased, and paved the way for some truly astonishing government waste." The GOP leader has pressed for a 72-hour mandatory minimum public review on spending legislation.
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