Winds of Change.NET: Liberty. Discovery. Humanity. Victory.

Formal Affiliations
  • Anti-Idiotarian Manifesto
  • Euston Democratic Progressive Manifesto
  • Real Democracy for Iran!
  • Support Denamrk
  • Million Voices for Darfur
  • milblogs
Syndication
 Subscribe in a reader

Sen. Coburn Launches Site to Help Citizens Track Federal Spending

| 4 Comments

I've liked Sen. Tom Coburn [R-OK] for a while. Here's one more reason. Not sure some of his colleagues will be as enthusiastic... but that's a feature, not a bug. The Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, today announced the launch of a new oversight website that will provide the public with tools to track how their tax dollars are spent and help taxpayers access information on federal spending and congressional oversight.

The new oversight website will feature the findings, reports and documentation from oversight hearings and investigations. The site also will feature a "taxpayer whistleblower" link, where citizens can anonymously submit tips on wasteful government spending programs. Hopefully, links to the database mandated by the proposed Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (S. 2590 via Coburn, McCain, Obama) will also be added.

S.2590 is a smart use of the Internet, and of the "Army of Davids" principle. In the meantime, the 2006 edition of Citizens Against Government Waste's famous Pig Book is out.

4 Comments

Although I'm sure this is good, I would prefer to volunteer for Sen. Coburn's lesbian bathroom patrol.

Oohh! Oohh! Mistah Kotta! Count me in on that bathroom patrol!!!

Since I've already done my time in the Corps and can't join back up, I'd like to also volunteer for the lesbian bathroom patrol.

Is there special class we get, er, need to take? I know they had that problem with those cheerleaders down in Florida. I want my country to know that I am not afraid of getting on the bus and going to Florida to find lesbian cheerleaders. I've got my camcorder right here in my hand.

For evidence, of course.

Daniel, in the future don't forget to supply a link.

Leave a comment

Here are some quick tips for adding simple Textile formatting to your comments, though you can also use proper HTML tags:

*This* puts text in bold.

_This_ puts text in italics.

bq. This "bq." at the beginning of a paragraph, flush with the left hand side and with a space after it, is the code to indent one paragraph of text as a block quote.

To add a live URL, "Text to display":http://windsofchange.net/ (no spaces between) will show up as Text to display. Always use this for links - otherwise you will screw up the columns on our main blog page.




Recent Comments
  • TM Lutas: Jobs' formula was simple enough. Passionately care about your users, read more
  • sabinesgreenp.myopenid.com: Just seeing the green community in action makes me confident read more
  • Glen Wishard: Jobs was on the losing end of competition many times, read more
  • Chris M: Thanks for the great post, Joe ... linked it on read more
  • Joe Katzman: Collect them all! Though the French would be upset about read more
  • Glen Wishard: Now all the Saudis need is a division's worth of read more
  • mark buehner: Its one thing to accept the Iranians as an ally read more
  • J Aguilar: Saudis were around here (Spain) a year ago trying the read more
  • Fred: Good point, brutality didn't work terribly well for the Russians read more
  • mark buehner: Certainly plausible but there are plenty of examples of that read more
  • Fred: They have no need to project power but have the read more
  • mark buehner: Good stuff here. The only caveat is that a nuclear read more
  • Ian C.: OK... Here's the problem. Perceived relevance. When it was 'Weapons read more
  • Marcus Vitruvius: Chris, If there were some way to do all these read more
  • Chris M: Marcus Vitruvius, I'm surprised by your comments. You're quite right, read more
The Winds Crew
Town Founder: Left-Hand Man: Other Winds Marshals
  • 'AMac', aka. Marshal Festus (AMac@...)
  • Robin "Straight Shooter" Burk
  • 'Cicero', aka. The Quiet Man (cicero@...)
  • David Blue (david.blue@...)
  • 'Lewy14', aka. Marshal Leroy (lewy14@...)
  • 'Nortius Maximus', aka. Big Tuna (nortius.maximus@...)
Other Regulars Semi-Active: Posting Affiliates Emeritus:
Winds Blogroll
Author Archives
Categories
Powered by Movable Type 4.23-en