Obama Administration Drafts Executive Order On Contractor Donation Transparency

[Tx4obama]

WASHINGTON -- After exhausting normal legislative avenues, the Obama administration has prepared a draft executive order that would enact some campaign finance reform provisions.

The administration was unable to secure the changes to donation disclosures it wanted in the last Congress.

Several Democratic sources confirmed a document being circulated by the administration would require government contractors to disclose campaign contributions made by directors, officers, affiliates or subsidiaries to federal candidates, political party committees and “third party entities” involved in electioneering.

The document, which was first reported by the conservative Pajamas Media, represents just a small (and revised) chunk of the DISCLOSE Act, the election transparency law Democrats tried to push through Congress last fall. Under that bill, which fell one vote short of a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, contractors would have been entirely prohibited from making political donations to federal candidates or parties.

Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/19/obama-administration-drafts-order_n_851228.html

[pinto]

1. If reports are accurate, a welcome step forward.

Only a piece of the whole that needs to get done, but a positive one.

[Tx4obama]

2. I agree. n/t

[Zorra]

3. Awesome! Government contractors paying legislators to do favors for them

is a serious threat to national security.

The President is completely justified in issuing an EO of this nature.

This will go a long way toward me regaining trust in the Prez.
:bounce:

[Zorra]

4. kick

[Tx4obama]

5. kick #2