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nancylebovhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/08/26/obama-only-dem-candidate-_n_61851.html
Offhand, I can't think of anything wrong with this proposal. Ok, it would collide with national security, but even if the public is only keeping track of the vast majority of the government, it's progress.
It is one of the unlikelier alliances in the 2008 presidential campaign: what possibly could bring together Barack Obama, Sam Brownback and Ron Paul? The answer: the highly ambitious, if infelicitously named, Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act.
The act is meant to bring average Americans a kind of Google for the federal government, an online search engine that will allow citizens to look up any company, organization or other entity receiving federal contracts, grants and earmarks. The act was passed by Congress and signed by President Bush last year, but some of its supporters charge that federal agencies are already dragging their feet on its implementation.
Offhand, I can't think of anything wrong with this proposal. Ok, it would collide with national security, but even if the public is only keeping track of the vast majority of the government, it's progress.
