WASHINGTON, DC – The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today released “White House: Transparency Behind Closed Doors?“, a video highlighting the White House’s recent refusal to explain an Executive Order which would politicize the federal procurement process.
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In its handling of this contentious Executive Order, the White House underscores its failure to live up to President Obama’s own open government and transparency promises.
“The way to make government responsible is to hold it accountable. And the way to make government accountable is to make it transparent so that the American people can know exactly what decisions are being made, how they’re being made, and whether their interests are being well served.” – President Barack Obama: January 21, 2009
Yet during a May 12 joint Oversight and Small Business Committee hearing on the proposed Obama Executive Order mandating the disclosure of political donations by government contractors, senior White House aide Daniel Gordon captured this Administration’s view of “open government”:
“Does it strike you at all as being ironic to invoke confidentiality and not answering questions when we’re having a hearing about transparency?” – Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC)
“It does not, sir. I think there are discussions, even about transparency and developing rules about transparency that we need to be able to have quietly and behind closed doors.” – Hon. Daniel Gordon, Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President
The Mission of the Oversight Committee “is to hold government accountable to taxpayers, because taxpayers have a right to know what they get from their government.” Right now, American taxpayers are funding a White House that believes private donations should be injected into the nonpartisan government contracting process. How does that deliver on President Obama’s promised open and accountable government?
I bet Daniel Gordon has to wear a diaper to the hearings he’s had to participate in recently! What a pantload of $- – T!
Obama and his whole administration lies. Obama has lied ever since he has been in office and left wing media even show him saying one thing and doing another, because they idolize him. It is totally corrupt on the part of the media. And his cronies do the same thing, they lie and that is what Daniel Gordon. If The Republicans were in office, they would be screaming about them saying one thing and doing another, so obviously the mainstream media, except Fox news, must be socialists.
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Lair, lair pants on fire post this on the white house page!!
Obama means liar in Arabic.
There has never been any truth from this administration. J.C.
Link working fine my friend, maybe you caught it at an off time?
On a few occassions, the fraud in the WH said ” we made a mistake” . I have never heard him say ” I was wrong ” . Granted, I may have missed it, especially since I prefer not to listen to him. Therefore, if anyone has heard him utter these 3 three little words ” I was wrong” , please let me know . Thanks