It's about time: OMB makes new case to win Hill support for e-gov Having failed over the past 4 1/2 years to convince Congress of the virtues of e-government, the Office of Management and Budget is making an unprecedented attempt to sell the idea to lawmakers and secure funding for fiscal 2006. -from Government Computer News Actually, the lead is a little generous to the administration. The administration is accused of unorthodox maneuvers in passing the hat to agencies to fund e-rulemaking, and Congress ever so gently slapped the administration for it.

With the release of the White House's budget submission comes, of course, the latest PART scores. In an effort to be tech-fancy, OMB created a new website, ExpectMore.Gov, to feature PART assessments. Only the homepage was working this morning, and now the pieces that are working are either not completely functional or spotty, taking you sometimes to data and other times to the 404-error page.

The President's budget proposal -- expected to total $2.7 trillion -- is released today, and OMB Watch will have a preliminary statement completed later in the day. The President's budget will provide big increases in military spending and homeland security, but will do so by cutting many other domestic programs and trimming $36 billion from Medicare over the next five years.