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- Stimulus Strings Come to Haunt the States 5:47am Jan 5
- New Mexico Takes First Step Towards Increased Spending Transparency 11:25am Jan 4
- Wanted: Transparency for Wisconsin Budget 10:40am Dec 22
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The Wall Street Journal ran a piece this weekend highlighting the fact that states, many of which had been eager to get their hands on federal "stimulus" dollars when they were being doled out, are now coming to realize that the "free
On January 1, 2010 New Mexico, a state that has yet to pass spending transparency legislation, took a first step towards greater fiscal accountability by launching a website which lists contract expenditure information for contracts worth more than $
State Representative Rich Zipperer, who heads up the Taxpayer Protection Caucus in the Wisconsin Assembly, penned a column outlining the need for transparency that ran in several publications across the state this past weekend. Indeed, the state has
While the Senate is moving closer towards a final vote on the Obama-Reid healthcare overhaul, one item of unfinished business is still on the agenda for this year - the vote to raise the debt ceiling. The House has already passed H.R. 4314
On Monday, December 21 Nebraska State Treasurer Shane Osborn announced the addition of a new feature to the state's spending transparency website NebraskaSpending.gov: a listing of searchable expenditures for the State of Nebraska for the fiscal year
A good read: The Wall Street Journal's take on the Senate's health care vote early this morning. An excerpt: Mr. Obama promised a new era of transparent good government, yet on Saturday morning Mr. Reid threw out the 2,100-page bill tha
A good read: The Wall Street Journal's take on the Senate's health care vote early this morning. An excerpt: Mr. Obama promised a new era of transparent good government, yet on Saturday morning Mr. Reid threw out the 2,100-page bill tha
The Sun-Times media has an editorial today extolling DuPage County in Illinois for setting a standard for transparency in the state. While both our friends at the Illinois Policy Institute and the state itself run portals that track spending, DuPage
House GOP Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) released a list of 222 economists supporting the following statement today: The country’s economic future depends on Congress’ ability to rein in the growth of federal spending. Failing to restric
Reps. Darrel Issa (R-Calif.) and Lamar Smith (R-Texas) announced today that the GAO, in response to a request made by the congressmen and several others, will investigate the corrupt organization ACORN. While Issa and Smith continue to push for a ful
The House is set today to take up the last spending measure it has yet to approve this year, the Department of Defense Appropriations bill, and has loaded it with all the goodies leadership wants to see pass before the end of the year. We sent an ale
Today, CFA sent a vote alert to the House of Representatives warning members that we will rate a vote against the debt limit increase. Currently, Congress can vote to increase the statutory limit on its debt to support its reckless spending habits. F
While the House leadership is ramming through four bills today none of which was made available until late last night, Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) achieved a small feat on the Senate side to take the haste out of the healthcare floor debate. He was
Today, the Chairman of the Recovery Transparency and Accountability Board which oversees Recovery.gov, posted a statement on the website outlining how the government hopes to improve upon its reporting of "stimulus" jobs across the country.
As Democrat negotiators continued to hash out the details relating to their unfinished legislative business for 2009 on Tuesday, House leaders said that they are hoping to wrap up the yet-to-be-filed bills on Wednesday. This rushed timeline onc
