Obama Breaks Sunlight Promise
The story
in the NYT
titled "White House Changes the Terms of a Campaign Pledge About Posting Bills Online," was about the White House effort to walk back from President Obama's campaign pledge to post bills he receives for five days before signing them.
When the New York Times published the story, five bills had been presented to the president and were awaiting his signature. Four more were presented to him after the story's publication. All nine are now law. For the record, here are the pieces of legislation signed by the president so far:
blogger then notes each of the 40 laws signed by Obama of which only 1 was posted for 5 days and most of which were not posted at all
Posted by: lord garth 2009-07-12 |