In June 2008 Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) and then Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) introduced legislation to expand the information available on USASpending.gov, the Strengthening Transparency and Accountability in Federal Spending Act of 2008. The bill was a follow up to the 2006 Transparency Act, which the two senators also worked together on. It would have required USASpending to include information on contractor and grantee performance. Such information would be a valuable way for the public to understand how the government is spending federal resources.

An even further improvement to the legislation would have added contractor lobbying disclosure. Such action may have potential given President Obama's Executive Order on ethics for executive Branch employees. The order states the intention to consider "steps the executive branch can take to expand to the fullest extent practicable disclosure of such executive branch procurement lobbying." Sec. 4(c)(4) of the order directs the Director of the Office of Government Ethics, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to:

report to the President on whether full compliance is being achieved with existing laws and regulations governing executive branch procurement lobbying disclosure and on steps the executive branch can take to expand to the fullest extent practicable disclosure of such executive branch procurement lobbying and of lobbying for presidential pardons, and to include in the report both immediate action the executive branch can take and, if necessary, recommendations for legislation;

It states further that the revolving door restrictions may be amended to "all executive branch employees who are involved in the procurement process such that they may not for 2 years after leaving Government service lobby any Government official regarding a Government contract that was under their official responsibility in the last 2 years of their Government."

OMB Watch called for similar recommendations in its 21st Century Right to Know Recommendations. The report calls for the "collection of information about the influence-peddling to get funding from the executive branch, such as lobbying by contractors. Such information should be collected and disclosed."