Monday, April 13, 2009

Congress needs Google to find out where stimulus money went

On February 14, with the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Congress shoveled $787 billion of stimulus money out the door. Now they're using Google to find out where it went. During the stimulus debate, the bill's supporters stressed that it included strong oversight safeguards.

But audits and reports are months, if not years, away, and the best tools Cantor and Thune have are Google and the Lexis-Nexis newspaper database...

[Transparency. Accountability. Duped again.]

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