Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Pres. Obama Day 1

  • Freeze salaries of top WH employees
  • Ban on lobbyists for 2 years
  • Ban on gifts
  • New transparency rules for Freedom of Information Act requests
  • Farcical Guantanamo Bay "trials" put on hold
  • Draft order to close Guantanamo Bay released
  • Discussion with Sec Def to end the war in Iraq within 16 months held
  • Calls to every Middle East head of state
  • Nomination of George Mitchell as special Middle East Envoy
  • Directing agencies to tap into knowledge of "ordinary Americans" to find answers (whatever that means)
  • New White House web site (whitehouse.gov) with list of all presidential executive orders
  • $800 billion fiscal stimulus plan sent to Congress

Not bad for a first day, I think.

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