The Daily Background

I don’t even need to make a comment about how incredibly ironic this is:

In an ironic twist, legislation that would open up the murky world of government contracting to public scrutiny has been derailed by a secret parliamentary maneuver.

An unidentified senator placed a “secret hold” on legislation introduced by Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., that would create a searchable database of government contracts, grants, insurance, loans and financial assistance, worth $2.5 trillion last year. The database would bring transparency to federal spending and be as simple to use as conducting a Google search.

Great idea from the Senators (one I’ve thought about several times before having read about it just now), but this bill already passed unanimously in subcommittee but now won’t go to a vote until the secret hold is lifted by whoever the hell placed it. Full article.

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