White House Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag posted a statement on OMB's blog about the administration's official revisions to rules governing lobbyist communications with executive branch officials with regard to the stimulus package.

"We continue to demand unprecedented transparency for lobbyist contacts and, for the first time in history, we now are bringing transparency to the world of unregistered lobbyists - CEOs and others with special access who would contact an agency or department about their interest in Recovery funding," wrote Orzag. "By expanding the restrictions on oral communications to apply to everybody who tries to exert influence on Recovery Act competitive funding decisions, we reinforce merit-based decision-making and transparency."

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