On Saturday, the New York Times’ had a front-page story on a White House directive that all regulations by federal agencies this year must be proposed by June 1 (two days ago) and made by November. The case for the strict timeline is to prevent “midnight regulations” where top-level ...

The Department of Education, Treasury Department and Office of Management and Budget are telling Congress to pass a bill enabling the administration to buy billions in student loans. The idea behind the proposal is that in the midst of the economic crisis, lenders need the capital from selling loans.

Federal bureaucracies are often accused of being a step slow in integrating new technology. But as the Washington Post’s Stephen Barr reports, the Office of Management and Budget has done much with the information-sharing technology used to create Wikipedia. Last year, OMB worked with other federal agencies to ...

Got a federal program you think is a waste of money?  Or one you think has helped you or your family?  You can see what kind of marks the federal government gives its own programs at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/expectmore/.  The program is a result of the Office of Management and ...

The Bush Administration has proposed major cuts to the Census Bureau’s Survey on Income and Program Participation, or SIPP. SIPP tracks users of federal social programs, providing data about participation levels and effects on well-being of citizens who benefit from Medicaid, welfare payments, food stamps, and school lunch ...

We've all read or heard about the loss of sensitive data from the Veteran Affairs Department, IRS, and other agencies.  OMB is reemphasizing the need to promptly report these breaches, i.e., within one (1) hour.

This is just another example of how far we still need to progress as we try ...