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President Barack Obama
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The American People
CITIZEN’SB RI E F I N G B O O K
 
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Note from the Transition:
As a closing act or the Transition, Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett requested thatthe Oce o Public Liaison create a process by which Americans outside oWashington could come together to present ideas directly to the President – a“Citizen’s Brieng Book.”The idea was to use the Transition website, change.gov, to create a grassrootsversion o the research binders that presidents receive every day. But instead oadvice rom top government ocials, the Citizen’s Brieng Book is composed oideas submitted by ordinary people and reecting the enthusiastic engagementrom the public we saw throughout the course o Change.gov.125,000 users submitted over 44,000 ideas and cast over 1.4 million votes, withthe most popular ideas accumulating tens o thousands o votes each. This bookcontains some o the top ideas, broken into groups by issue area. You can tell howpopular each idea was by looking at the number next to it – it represents howmany people voted or the idea, with 10 points awarded or each positive vote. Inaddition, you will nd a “word cloud” or each category o ideas representing therequency with which various words and concepts appeared through the entireprocess.Out o the tens o thousands o submissions, these ideas ound the most support;here they are, unvarnished and unedited.
 
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