March 11, 2009 4:57PM 

# New Podcast: ‘A More Transparent Federal Government’ 

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Online technology offers President Obama more opportunities to increase government transparency than any president before him, says Jerry Brito, creator of [Stim​u​lusWatch​.org](http://stimuluswatch.org/) and senior fellow at the [Mercatus Center](http://www.mercatus.org/).

In today’s [Cato Daily Podcast](https://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=851), Brito says that although Obama has taken positive steps toward increasing transparency, there are hurdles in place that are restricting open access to government data.

> President Obama has been very clear about making sure that Americans know where every dollar goes…the problem though so far, is that we have a Web site called Recov​ery​.gov, but there isn’t much there yet.

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