Opponents of reform continue to prove they are willing to say or do anything to defend the status quo. Today, they’re out of the gate with a predictable distortion of a new report from the Actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The alarmist headline of their press release screams that the Senate […]
In order to democratize data and advance the President’s agenda of an open, transparent and participatory government, the Data.gov platform was launched on May 21, 2009, with 47 datasets. Today, we have over 118,000 datasets and have received more than 47 million hits. Since the launch, many state, local and international governments have followed the […]
Ed. Note: See previous installments from Interior Secretary Salazar, as well as EPA Administrator Jackson and Assistant Secretary of Energy Sandalow. Today, the U.S. Center in Copenhagen turned the spotlight on American business, new jobs and the economic opportunities for Americans and people across the globe in building a clean energy economy — and in providing […]
Proving that they will leave no stone unturned in their efforts to undermine health reform, some blogs opposing reform are now trafficking an absurd rumor that Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base is being threatened over Senator Ben Nelson’s vote on the Senate reform bill. To be perfectly clear: these rumors are completely baseless and false. […]
The first deadline of President Obama’s Executive Order on Federal Sustainability (EO 13514) was recently met when EPA announced new guidance for Federal agencies to reduce stormwater runoff from Federal building projects. The new stormwater guidance for Federal building projects calls for innovative approaches for preserving local water systems by using porous pavement, green roofs, […]
Click here to see the video. Yesterday the Vice President sent a memo (pdf) to the President demonstrating how the new foundation for a clean energy economy has been laid this year. The memo is thorough and solid – take a look to get a shapshot of how the future will unfold as a result of the investments […]
Today, House Minority Leader John Boehner has an op-ed in the Washington Post. Unfortunately, what we heard from Congressman Boehner was more of the same, status quo, business-as-usual policies that led us to this crisis. Just one year ago, the financial system was on the edge of collapse. The economy was in free fall. When the […]
For decades, Americans have talked about fixing our broken health care system. Presidents from Truman to Nixon to Clinton have attempted and come up short. Now, though, we’re far closer than ever before to signing into law real health insurance reform – reform that will give insured Americans unprecedented stability and security, make quality, affordable […]
Comment on this post at the OSTP blog. Yesterday we announced the launch of the Public Access Forum, sponsored by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Beginning with today’s post, we look forward to a productive online discussion. One of our nation’s most important assets is the trove of data produced by federally […]
Ed. Note: Thanks to Tech. Sgt. Nathan Gallahan for the post below, send your own video message to the troops via the DOD website. I started this year’s holiday season off right – waking up Thanksgiving morning in a tin building with 200 Army soldiers at a combat outpost in eastern Afghanistan. I’m a U.S. […]
