This is fantastic. Senators Obama and Coburn have introduced the Strengthening Transparency and Accountability in Federal Spending Act of 2008 (S. 3077), which would modify their 2006 transparency act. That first bill created USASpending.gov, a searchable web site of government outlays. … The new bill would expand the scope of information available via USASpending.gov, adding [...]
I rarely feel strong support for one Democratic candidate over another in the primaries. Heck, I can usually barely get myself to vote for the Democrat in the general election. So what makes me feel so strongly about Obama? Well, there are 3 main reasons: His stance against the war Obama was against the war [...]
Obama’s campaign says they don’t accept money from lobbyists, and Clinton’s campaign does. Everyone seems to accept this assertion. Indeed, everyone seems to accept that it is significant and bold for the Obama campaign to have such a policy. But I don’t understand what it means to accept money from a lobbyist. A conversation I [...]
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