"Once again, the overzealous young Obama administration is pushing politics too far into the federal agencies where it is supposed to be forbidden, this time at the Department of Education," writes Kerry Picket, the Editorial Pages online producer at The Washington Times. "A recent article by Doug Lederman from the web site Inside Higher Ed, reveals that the administration continues the conference call politics. This time, the call appears to have encouraged lobbying on a specific pending bill - a move that may violate federal law according to a transcript of a call obtained by The Washington Times. ... While the Department of Education did not explicitly ask community college leaders to call their congressmen and lobby for the bill, it is clear that is exactly what the Obama administration political appointees were after. And that administration coordinated lobbying by the recipients of government money is exactly what Congress outlawed."