Obama Transition Team's Agency Reviews Start Monday

Source: Washington Post

Federal employees: Take note! Get a haircut and wear your best suit to work on Monday, because that's when Obama transition team members may show up in your office to start reviewing “over 100 departments, agencies and commissions of the United States government," according to Obama transition co-chairman John Podesta.

The former White House chief of staff said the agency review teams "will ensure that senior appointees have the information necessary to complete their confirmation process, lead their departments and begin implementing signature policy initiatives immediately after they're sworn in.”

In a demonstration of unprecedented transition transparency, Podesta said his team will publicly release the names of every person on the agency review teams and those that will enter the agencies for review.

"They will be posted on our Web site, Change.gov, as they are cleared to do their work," Podesta said. "A list of team leaders with short bios will be available later this week. Other team members will be posted on the Web site when cleared, but prior to their entry into the agencies." The transition Web site currently has a list of names but no biographies of those leading up the transition.

We know however that Melody Barnes and Lisa Brown will serve as the transition's co-directors of agency review.

Barnes used to work at the Center for American Progress, the group that Podesta heads and is currently on leave from....Brown is on a leave of absence from her role as executive director of the American Constitution Society. She served as counsel to Vice President Al Gore, earned a B.A. in political economy from Princeton University in 1982 (Michelle Obama's alma matter) and received a law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1986....

Read more: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2008/11/agency_reviews_start_monday.html

the warped federal bureaucracy left by the bushco bankruptcy.

:applause:

Because there has to be some excess and redundancy out there.

Also, I noticed that they didn't say corporations. I wonder if this includes the FDIC and other such organizations.