United for TransparencySubmitted by Katie Schlieper on Tue, 08/29/2006 - 1:40pm.
This is cool. A bipartisan bill was set for a vote in the Senate just before it recessed - the bill, designed to give more transparency to government spending, would create a searchable database of federal grants and contracts. But a Senator's placed a secret hold on it. Who? Bloggers are uniting to figure it out and hold the Senator in question accountable.
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