Honest Leadership and Open Government Act

(noun)

The Honest Leadership and Open Government Act, signed September 15, 2007 by President Bush, requires a quarterly report on lobby spending, places restrictions on gifts to Congress members, provides for mandatory disclosure of earmarks in expenditure bills, and places restrictions on the revolving door in direct lobbying.

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Examples of Honest Leadership and Open Government Act in the following topics:

  • Lobbying Scandals and the Reforms of 2007

    • The Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 sought to amend and strengthen parts of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995.
    • The Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 is a law of the United States federal government that amended parts of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995.
    • Requires that executive and legislative branch employees who leave government positions and seek to lobby on behalf of Native American tribes face the same revolving door provisions as others.
    • Requires lobbyist disclosures in both the Senate and House to be filed electronically and requires creation of a public searchable Internet database of such information.Increases civil penalty for knowing and willful violations of the Lobby Disclosure Act from 200,000 and imposes a criminal penalty of up to five years for knowing and corrupt failure to comply with the Act.
    • Describe the rules that the Honest Leadership and Open Government act put in place to regulate lobbying

  • Direct Techniques

    • Direct lobbying is different from grassroots lobbying, a process that uses direct communication with the general public, who in turn contact and influence the government.
    • The Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 was signed into law by President Bill Clinton .
    • Under a January 1, 2006 revision, the act requires the registration of all lobbying entities with the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives.
    • The Honest Leadership and Open Government Act was signed on September 15, 2007 by President Bush, amending the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995.
    • The other form of the revolving door is pushing lobbyists into government positions, developing connections, and returning into the lobbying world to use said connections.

  • The Reforms of 1995

    • The Lobbying and Disclosure Act of 1995 was legislation aimed at bringing a level of accountability to federal lobbying practices in the United States.
    • The Lobbying and Disclosure Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. § 1601) was legislation aimed at bringing a level of accountability to federal lobbying practices in the United States.
    • This law was then amended substantially by the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007.
    • The Clerk and Secretary must refer any acts of non-compliance to the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia.
    • A person or entity whose employees act as lobbyists on its own behalf is both a client and an employer of such employees....".

  • Honesty in Leadership: Kouzes and Posner

    • Kouzes and Posner identify five behaviors of effective leadership, with honesty essential to each.
    • Leadership is the ability to motivate people and mobilize resources to accomplish a common goal.
    • Integrity and openness are essential to developing trust, and without honesty a leader cannot gain and maintain the trust needed to build commitment to a shared vision.
    • Trust stems from honesty, and creating an honest environment allows other employees more personal autonomy.
    • This requires leaders to be in tune with their employees' emotions and concerns in a meaningful and honest way.

  • Interactive Leadership

    • Interactive leadership involves leaders' engaging followers to increase their understanding of tasks and goals.
    • Effective leadership requires communicating and engaging with followers.
    • The interactive style of leadership makes it a priority to inform followers about important matters related to their goals and tasks and to clarify understanding.
    • They also make themselves visible and accessible to followers; some maintain an "open-door" policy to signal that they are open to dialogue and hearing from others.
    • Explain the importance of interactive leadership in generating motivation and commitment to shared objectives

  • Four Theories of Leadership

    • Theories of effective leadership include the trait, contingency, behavioral, and full-range theories.
    • Research in the field of trait theory has shown significant positive relationships between effective leadership and personality traits such as intelligence, extroversion, conscientiousness, self-efficacy, and openness to experience.
    • Fiedler's contingency model of leadership focuses on the interaction of leadership style and the situation (later called situational control).
    • The full-range theory of leadership is a component of transformational leadership, which enhances motivation and morale by connecting the employee's sense of identity to a project and the collective identity of the organization.
    • Individualized consideration: the degree to which the leader attends to each follower's concerns and needs and acts as a mentor or coach

  • Reform and Scandal: The Campaign of 1884

    • Cleveland's reputation for good government made him a national figure.
    • These Republicans, called mugwumps, withdrew from the convention and declared that they would vote for the Democratic candidate if he were an honest man.
    • During the Third Party System, party loyalty was in high regard and Independents were rare.
    • Theodore Roosevelt stunned his upper class New York City friends by supporting Blaine in 1884; by rejecting the Mugwumps, he kept alive his Republican party leadership, clearing the way for his own political aspirations.
    • New England and the Northeastern United States had been a stronghold of the Republican Party since the Civil War era, but the Mugwumps considered Blaine to be an untrustworthy and fraudulent candidate.

  • Divided Government

    • The Tea Party, which was strongly opposed to abortion, gun control, and immigration, focused primarily on limiting government spending and the size of the federal government.
    • Late in the evening of October 16, 2013, Congress passed the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014, and the President signed it shortly after midnight on October 17, ending the government shutdown and suspending the debt limit until February 7, 2014.
    • Only those government services deemed "excepted" under the Antideficiency Act were continued, and only those employees deemed "excepted" continued to report to work.
    • We support open, accountable and limited government, the Constitution and the rule of law, and policies that promote the liberty, safety and prosperity of all Americans."
    • The Caucus was involved in the resignation of Boehner on September 25, 2015, and the ensuing leadership battle for the new Speaker.

  • Civil Rights and Voting Rights

    • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were landmark pieces of legislation that addressed major forms of discrimination.
    • Goldwater had supported previous attempts to pass Civil Rights legislation in 1957 and 1960 as well as the 24th Amendment outlawing the poll tax; however, he rejected the idea of the national government regulating such acts.
    • His proposal, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, prohibited states and local governments from passing laws that discriminated against voters on the basis of race.
    • The Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act changed the lives of African Americans and transformed society in many ways.
    • While Congress played an important role by passing the Acts, the actions of civil rights groups such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) were instrumental in forging new paths, pioneering new techniques and strategies, and achieving breakthrough successes.

  • Be Open From Day One

    • People often think that "open source" means "strangers distracting us with questions", but that's optional — it's something you might do down the road, if and when it makes sense for your project.
    • And every time they choose the latter, the project gets just a little bit harder to open source.
    • Comments in the code expressing perhaps overly-honest reactions to the customer's latest urgent request;
    • (These concerns apply even more strongly to government software projects; see the section called "Being Open Source From Day One is Especially Important for Government Projects" in Governments and Open Source. )
    • It also means the code and documentation are placed under an open source license, of course.