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Thursday, February 16, 2006

The House Budget Committee held a hearing today on performance evaluations and spending trends. Clay Johnson of the Office of Management and Budget testified, along with Brian Reidl of the Heritage Foundation and Bob Greenstein of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Johnson spoke of the importance of accountability in government spending as well as OMB's new performance website, but refused to recognize the hypocrisy surrounding some of the budget decisions made after these programs are evaluated by OMB's standards. Testimony and opening remarks are below:

Opening Remarks: Chairman Nussle

Testimony: Clay Johnson, Deputy Director of the OMB

Testimony: Brian Reidl, Heritage Foundation

Testimony: Bob Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Posted by Becky Lewis, 03:41:55 PM

Monday, February 06, 2006

PART: Finally, Someone Else Gets It
At OMB Watch, we're pretty accustomed to working on issues that go under the radar. Such has long been the case with PART, the White House's tool for assessing program performance (supposedly). We have been telling anyone who will listen that PART is a political tool, not a measurement of "results" or "effectiveness," which the White House uses to justify lousy budget choices and to send management signals to agencies that would take government programs in the wrong directions.

Now someone else has come across PART and realized what a load of propaganda it is. Check out ThinkProgress.org's truthcheck of some of the assessments in this year's PART.

Posted by Robert Shull, 06:10:58 PM

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