January 31, 2009
IT'S BEEN 5 DAYS IF THE UR SAYS IT HAS! (via The Other Brother):
Obama Administration Fails Its Own Transparency Promise Just Days Later (TechDirt, 1/30/09)
On inauguration day, the administration promised, among other things:Posted by Orrin Judd at January 31, 2009 2:21 PMWe will publish all non-emergency legislation to the website for five days, and allow the public to review and comment before the President signs it.
That's great! If only it actually happened. Jim Harper points out that Obama signed the "Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009" into law just a day after Congress sent it to him. This is a "non-emergency" law. The Whitehouse did put it on the website for review, but not for five days. And, it's especially troubling since there actually is a fair amount of controversy over the law.
