State spending Web site needed

 
By Sen. Tom Coburn and Brandon Dutcher
Published: October 18, 2006

President Bush recently signed into law the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act . This law creates an easy-to-use Web site that will allow citizens to track the recipients of all federal funds — "to Google their tax dollars," as President Bush memorably put it at the bill-signing ceremony.

Every year the federal government dishes out nearly 1 trillion of your dollars in contracts, grants and earm...


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