OMB again fights to remove funding restrictions
Its hot in Washington, so the White House must be fending off congressional attacks on e-government.
In each of the past five summers, legislators have cut allocations to the governmentwide E-Government Fundby a total of more than $87 millionand placed restrictive riders on certain spending bills. But this year, the cuts are among the harshest agencies have seen and could stall the Bush administrations effort to modernize and consolidate agency IT systems.