Rick Weiss has been appointed to a position within U.S. President Barack Obama's Office of Science and Technology Policy. (It's not immediately clear which position.) Weiss has written about OA many times in his previous positions at Science Progress and the Washington Post.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
