On Friday, Norm Eisen, the White House special counsel to the president for ethics and government reform, wrote a blog post announcing the creation of a central repository for the public to track presidential appointees that received limited waivers from ethics rules.

Wrote Eisen:

"We have previously reported six limited waivers that have been granted by the White House pursuant to the President's Executive Order on Ethics for Executive Branch personnel - the strongest ethics standards in U.S. government history. Three of these waivers involved lobbying-related issues and three did not. We blogged about them here, here, and here.

Several months ago, the public-interest community suggested that we also make available in a central place limited waivers granted by other federal agencies besides the White House. Today, we are releasing all ten such agency-granted waivers (none of which involve lobbying). The President's Executive Order calls for an annual report to be completed in early 2010 that will include all waivers granted pursuant to the Order. We are, however, pleased to make all of the pledge waivers granted to date by this Administration available now--more than four months early."