Pius XII Memorial Library Government Documents

One of the quietest departments in the executive branch the last eight years will be getting a new administrator in just a few months; and riding into the sunset on her Harley will be USDOT Secretary Mary E. Peters. We can only hope the next agency head has more wheels on the ground.

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Not satisfied to rest on the laurels of their fiftieth anniversary (see the NASA display in the Government Documents area of Pius Library), NASA, in conjunction with a commercial company, is showing off Eureka, the largest currently functioning zeppelin.

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Consumption at the CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) will be watched closely in the first months of the new administration and all the latest regulations are here at NHTSA.
…the increased standards would also address climate change by reducing tailpipe emissions of CO2. Those emissions represent 97 percent of the total greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles. Implementation of the new standards [...]

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Seems that some things never change with the “press gaggle” as demonstrated during a recent tete-a-tete:
Q Dana, what do you say to some lawmakers — Senator Levin did an interview over the weekend with CNN and he said, “These problems have been blossoming under the Bush administration. If the domestic auto industry falls [...]

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Here is some light bathroom reading material for the new administration from the Brookings Institution Press, the Prune Book: Top Management Challenges for Presidential Appointees.

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In the 24/7 news cycle there is no room for a honeymoon period for the President-elect or the incoming Congress; the GAO has a nice “to-do” list for the capitol hill crowd. Pass the Tums…

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We congratulate President-Elect Obama and we take issue with the pundits who criticize his lack of experience (granted he has never owned a baseball team and he does not have an MBA) since he has taught Consititutional law –the very bedrock of our government–at the University of Chicago.

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Will the new administration “expect more” or will we have more of the same. Tune in Wednesday for complete election results.  This OMB initiative assessed 1,017 programs and found only 27 ineffective — guess we have  le meilleur des mondes possibles.

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