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Article: Shame of the Senate; Who stopped a bill to keep track of federal spending? Ted Stevens of Alaska and Robert Byrd of West Virginia.(Main)(Editorial)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- September 5, 2006
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Perhaps there's hope for the battle for public disclosure in the U.S. Senate after all. Oh, the bill that would have created an easy to navigate database to keep track of $2.5 trillion in federal spending - contracts, grants, insurance payments and the like - still has an obstacle or two in the way of passage. But at least the culprits who resorted to secretly derailing it have been outed.
They're Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, and Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va. Shame on them both.
The members of the secrecy-above-all caucus were pressured into coming forward last week after a relentless effort by activists and bloggers. Otherwise, we still wouldn't know who ...