Well... At Least PorkBusters Has My Two Senators In The Clear !!!

[WillyT]

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Who is the secret holder?

Senators Tom Coburn and Barak Obama have proposed S.2590, legislation that would create a single website with access to information on nearly all recipients of federal funding. The bill cannot proceed, however, because one or more Senators placed a "secret hold" on it.

Who is the secret holder? We want to know, and we want your help finding out. Call your Senator, and ask them to go on the record denying that they placed the hold. Then e-mail Porkbusters and let us know what they said! Senators who issue denials will be removed from the suspect list --- and those who do not, won't!

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Link (Pic Heavy): http://porkbusters.org/secrethold.php

Have your Senators cleared themselves yet?

Found out about this site here: http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001428.php

Pressure people... PRESSURE!!!

:kick:

[MadMaddie]

1. There are a lot of Dems on the list of unknowns...

[annabanana]

5. Including Schumer...Grrr

It's late now, but if he isn't cleared by office hours I'll start banging on his door... (figuratively speaking)

[Maat]

2. It's good news about our Senators.

But I despise Tom Coburn. He is my in-laws' rep, and there is no better anti-reproductive-rights sexist on the planet.

[WillyT]

4. Oh... Coburn's A MAJOR POS, But I Want S.2590 Passed !!!

And I want to out the "Secret Holder"!

:shrug:

[Maat]

7. You're right. That jerk should be outed (n/t)!

[AnnieBW]

3. My Money's On Stevens or Byrd

Some pigs are more equal than others. Stevens and his "bridge to nowhere" and Byrd are the top porkers of each party.

[niyad]

6. I just LOVE the rationale for this bill from a repuke-- especially how

he conflated planned parenthood and the sierra club with that puke stevens' "bridge to nowhere".
very interesting indeed.




"For the first time, it would shed some light on which companies and organizations are receiving federal money, and how much they are getting. A tool like this is a dream come true for budget hawks. Louis Brandeis famously observed that `sunlight is the best disinfectant' -- and nothing needs disinfecting like the festering federal budget. Many taxpayers would be surprised and disturbed to learn how much of their money drifts quietly away to various questionable causes -- Planned Parenthood, the Sierra Club, Alaskan bridges to nowhere, and the like. Making this information readily available to the public -- and especially to the diligent denizens of the blogosphere -- would encourage reform...It would bring about a systematic, strategic advantage -- rather than just an isolated triumph -- for proponents of spending cuts. While it isn't enough by itself to restore sensible spending to Washington, it would strongly encourage lawmakers to exercise integrity in their oversight of the federal purse."

(gee, considering it's the repukes doing most of the spending these days, one doesn't quite understand their eagerness to see the bill passed--unless they think it will only apply to LIBERAL entities.)


http://www.gopprogress.com/story/2006/8/25/9753/25337