This memoradnum, written by the Obama-Biden Transition Project’s general counsel, sets parameters for the incoming transition team members joining from Obama for America 2008. The memo covers engagement in partisan political activities, promotion of political causes in accordance to the Presidential Transition Act of 1963, and appropriate use of files and documents that were used for former campaigns.
This short memorandum concerns the receipt of gifts and donations to President-elect Obama, Vice President-elect Biden and the Transition Team.
Memo to employees of the U.S. House and Senate who are approved for service on the Transition team. The memo provides guidance to Congressional staffers on roles and responsibilities as a transition detailee, legislative coordinator or volunteer.
This Manual summarizes the personnel policies and procedures that are applicable to volunteers of the Office of President-Elect’s and Vice-President-Elect’s transition team. It covers topics including personal records, ethics, safety, attendance, dress code, and confidentiality.
This memorandum details the Obama-Biden Transition Project’s policies and procedures for handling certain classes of documents from federal agencies.
This memorandum from the Agency Review Working Group to the agency review teams outlines the workplan, timelines, organization, and deliverables for the agency review teams.
This outline contains guidance to the agency review teams on how to create user’s manuals for independent regulatory agencies. The document contains sections discussing the general guidance and the 8-section outline for the user’s manuals.
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Office of President-elect Obama and the White House establishing the relationship between the transition team and the outgoing White House. “The chief of staff and the chair of the president-elect’s transition team enter into this memorandum of understanding in order to establish an orderly process for identifying individuals charged with transition responsibilities, to ensure that the government’s and the office of the president-elect’s standards of conduct are observed, to protect the confidentiality of nonpublic government information made available to the transition team during the transition period, to preserve the constitutional, statutory and common law privileges that attach to such information in the possession of the executive branch, and to protect the confìdentiality of transition information made available to the government.”
The code of ethics details the expectations for members of the incoming Obama transition team. The document includes guidelines for accepting gifts, disclosing previous lobbying experience, disqualifications associated with conflicts of interest, and other standards of conduct expected from employees of the Transition Project.
This memorandum, by presidential transition advisors Harrison Wellford, Mirah Horowitz and Tom Shakow, details key benchmarks with which to measure a successful transition.