Government Executive: Administration plans to pick up the pace on stimulus spending

From Government Executive:

The White House on Monday announced plans to accelerate implementation of the economic stimulus package during next three-plus months, as critics said the administration missed some targets for initial Recovery Act spending.  During a morning Cabinet meeting, Vice President Joe Biden highlighted 10 major Recovery Act initiatives that will begin in earnest within the next 100 days, including hiring or keeping employed about 5,000 police officers, creating 125,000 summer jobs for youth and cleaning up 20 environmentally contaminated Superfund sites. The upcoming projects, listed on the White House Web site, also are intended to make long-term infrastructure improvements to 107 national parks, 98 airports, 90 veterans medical centers and more than 1,500 highways.  "We're going to do it continuing to operate in a transparent fashion so that taxpayers know this money is not being wasted on a bunch of boondoggles," President Obama said.