Executive Orders-Era of Transparency

President Obama ordered a Halt to Prosecutions at Guantanamo. This is to give time for the new administration can evaluate the current war-crimes proceedings. Possibly making them U.S. prisoners.


President Obama announced today he is freezing the pay of the White House Employees who make over 100,000/year. This is a good thing, we need to see why they are making these amounts and if we can cut down on wasted money.


President Obama starts his term off with the new era of openness, by signing a executive order that will create more strenuous ethics guidelines for staff members of his administration. This will include such things as a change in lobbyist rules (ex.staff and lobbying will not collide!) and administration work regulations (ex.


Th executive orders will be official sometime after 1:15pm