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Effectiveness

POGO Joins Letter to President Obama On New Ethics Czar Bob Bauer

By POGO Staff | Filed under letter | August 06, 2010

President Barack Obama

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest

Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Obama:

We write to applaud the work of Norman L. Eisen, Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform and his role in fulfilling your mandate of openness and accountability in the federal government. Our organizations believe that Mr. Eisen has made a very positive contribution to advancing your commitment to higher ethical standards and greater transparency and accountability in the Executive Branch and wish him great success as Ambassador to the Czech Republic.

Based on press reports, we understand that your counsel, Mr. Bob Bauer, will now handle Mr. Eisen's responsibilities and that Mr. Steven Croley will join the Domestic Policy Council to work on government reform issues. We are pleased you are taking quick action to provide senior leadership on the issues of ethics, transparency and accountability.

Every White House needs a conscience, a high-level official with the authority to make sure that all officials, from the President on down, are taking ethics rules seriously and are comporting themselves to avoid not only conflicts of interest but also an appearance of a conflict. And as you have noted from your earliest days in office, transparency and accountability strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in government.

Mr. Eisen has served as that conscience, but he has done more than that, instituting a proactive reform agenda that has touched on everything from strong protections for federal whistleblowers to robust transparency at government agencies.

Mr. President, we commend you for elevating, as no president has before, ethics, transparency and accountability issues. But, as you know, there is still much work to be done. For this reason, we hope Mr. Bauer and Mr. Croley bring the same level of commitment to reform, an ability to promote and coordinate policy implementation, and a willingness to engage with our community as Mr. Eisen did.

We look forward to continuing to work with the White House, and the replacements for Mr. Eisen, to ensure that the Administration fulfills its reform promises.

Sincerely,

Gary Bass, Executive Director

OMB Watch

Melanie Sloan, Executive Director

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

Sharon Bradford Franklin, Senior Counsel

The Constitution Project

Heather West, Policy Analyst

Center for Democracy and Technology

Conrad Martin, Executive Director

Fund for Constitutional Government

Patrice McDermott, Director

OpenTheGovernment.org

Mark Cohen, Executive Director

Government Accountability Project

Danielle Brian, Executive Director

Project On Government Oversight (POGO)

Ellen Miller, Executive Director

Sunlight Foundation

Ryan Alexander, President

Taxpayers for Common Sense

Francesca Grifo, Senior Scientist and Director, Scientific Integrity Program

Union of Concerned Scientists

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