Barack Obama just publicly announced a far-reaching set of ethics rules and other changes from prior practices for his White House staff:
⢠Over a hundred senior staffers making over $100,000 per year will have their pay frozen at current levels.
⢠There will be a two-year waiting period for any former lobbyists to work on issues for which they had previously done lobbying work.
⢠Extra openness will be practiced with any information that the Administration might want to keep secret.
This was perhaps the most striking quote: “Information will not be withheld just because I say so. It will be withheld because a separate authority believes my request is well grounded in the Constitution. Let me say it as simply as I can, transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.”
