Mr. Cheney set off protests from Democrats when he declared that his office was exempt from sections of a presidential order that executive branch offices provide data on how much material they classify and declassify.
This effort represents the beginning of our expanded coverage of the executive branch's personal financial data.
U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith, SB '86, SM '88, joins a panel of executive branch staffers to discuss data-driven justice, digital government, and new opportunities for open data and community engagement.
The inspector general concluded that the statement had arisen through an interpretation of data coordinated outside the E.P.A. by an executive-branch information agency, the Council on Environmental Quality.
The president has better access to expertise from the unified executive branch — including its top secret data — than the more ad hoc information Congress develops through hearings and investigations.
Republicans have not addressed possibly unconstitutional emoluments, conflicts of interest, improper White House interference with the Justice Department, endemic corruption throughout the executive branch and suppression of government data the administration doesn't like — to name just a few items.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) data show that executive branch agencies, over whom the president arguably has more control, have issued less than half as many major regulations as they had at this point in the Obama administration.
"But they won't let you look at the files to substantiate their claim". In announcing the formation of the Select Committee, Smith said: "The executive branch has resisted giving Congress intelligence data on POWs and MIAs.
But lawyers at the Health Department and the Justice Department contended it would be unconstitutional for Congress to compel the disclosure of data over objections from the executive branch.
Executive Branch: Like Congress, the Executive Branch often does best what it does least.
