Obama's proposed New Executive Order- political contributions declared by companies and there officers before gov contra (Whitehouse, dollars)

[SilverOne]

Obama’s Proposed New Executive Order: Transparency or A Boot On The Throat? | The Blaze

Chicago at work make the government contractors declare all of there political contributions before awarding government contracts. Hum I wonder what party would get the contract?

[lifelongMOgal]

This is the closest reference I can find to it. For some reason the White House Executive Orders are all jumbled and not listed consecutively by date.

Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Jay Carney aboard Air Force One en route San Francisco, California | The White House

Q Jay, there was -- there were reports this morning that the administration is considering an executive order requiring companies seeking government contracts to disclose their contributions to groups that under current law would be secret. Is that correct?

MR. CARNEY: Well, what I can tell you is there is a draft -- there’s a process, and it’s in the -- it’s part of a process. There’s a draft, and the particular specifics of that executive order could change over time, so I can’t talk about the specifics. What I can tell you is the President is committed to improving our federal contracting system, making it more transparent and more accountable. He believes that American taxpayers deserve that, and that's what he intends to pursue through this executive order.

Q Is there any political goals behind this?

MR. CARNEY: Quite the contrary. He believes very strongly that taxpayers deserve to know whether or not the contractors that their money is going to is being used -- how they're spending their money, and how -- whether they're -- how they're spending in terms of political campaigns. And his goal is transparency and accountability. That's the responsible thing to do when you’re handling taxpayer dollars.

Q Is he likely to go ahead with the executive order? Or is there another way to accomplish it?

MR. CARNEY: I can’t -- there’s an executive order in the draft process. I can’t give you any specifics on it because the specifics could change. That's the nature of the process.

[momonkey]

Originally Posted by lifelongMOgal

This is the closest reference I can find to it. For some reason the White House Executive Orders are all jumbled and not listed consecutively by date.

Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Jay Carney aboard Air Force One en route San Francisco, California | The White House

Q Jay, there was -- there were reports this morning that the administration is considering an executive order requiring companies seeking government contracts to disclose their contributions to groups that under current law would be secret. Is that correct?

MR. CARNEY: Well, what I can tell you is there is a draft -- there’s a process, and it’s in the -- it’s part of a process. There’s a draft, and the particular specifics of that executive order could change over time, so I can’t talk about the specifics. What I can tell you is the President is committed to improving our federal contracting system, making it more transparent and more accountable. He believes that American taxpayers deserve that, and that's what he intends to pursue through this executive order.

Q Is there any political goals behind this?

MR. CARNEY: Quite the contrary. He believes very strongly that taxpayers deserve to know whether or not the contractors that their money is going to is being used -- how they're spending their money, and how -- whether they're -- how they're spending in terms of political campaigns. And his goal is transparency and accountability. That's the responsible thing to do when you’re handling taxpayer dollars.

Q Is he likely to go ahead with the executive order? Or is there another way to accomplish it?

MR. CARNEY: I can’t -- there’s an executive order in the draft process. I can’t give you any specifics on it because the specifics could change. That's the nature of the process.

Thanks for doing the research lifelongMOgal.

OK, so now "transparent and accountable" means anyone doing business with the federal government will be reviewed for past tribute to the boy king?

Secret E-mail lists, data mining social networks, tell on your neighbor website (flag@whitehouse.gov), and now this.

I know liberal don't have much use for the Constitution, but has Chairman Obama aka "Big Brother" never heard of the Privacy Act of 1974?

[HappyTexan]

To me that's not "transparency"..not the way this administration is working.