See Republicans Fear the People, Secret Hold on Openess Bill.

Writing by on Thursday, 31 of August , 2006 at 2:09 am

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The same idiot that brought you the greatest phrase ever uttered by an old man, “It’s not a dump truck, it is a series of tubes” when speaking about the internet has found yet another thing that he does not want in the tubes, and that is information about how your government spends money. Senator Ted Stephens has good reason to keep this information out of the tubes, because he is the master of the earmark, the fattest pig at the government teat, remember the “bridge to nowhere?” (for the record, the “bridge to nowhere did go somewhere, that somewhere was to a remote island who’s main property owner was in fact the Senator. Had the earmark made it the $1 billion dollar bridge would have been a huge windfall for the Republican)

TPM Muckrakers picks it up.

>Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) held up a bill that would create a free, searchable database of government contracts and grants because he was worried about the proposal’s price tag, his spokesman told me this afternoon. Its cost has been estimated at $15 million.

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Stevens’ office has asked Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), the sponsor of the bill, for "a cost-benefit analysis to make sure this does not create an extra layer of unnecessary bureaucracy,” spokesman Aaron Saunders said. The Senator “wanted to make sure that this wasn’t going to be a huge cost to the taxpayer and that it achieves the goal which the bill is meant to achieve.”

Saunders added that Stevens’ hold was not "secret," and that he would back the bill if the analysis shows that "it achieves its goal and it achieves its goal well."

But Sen. Coburn’s spokesman John Hart questioned Stevens’ motive. "The only reason to oppose this bill is if he has something to hide," Hart said.

haha. that is rich coming from the man that has been nothing but a "huge cost to the taxpayer"

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