Coburn amendment would require online expenditures from The Hill, brings us a rather interesting amendment to an appropriations bill soon coming up for a vote.
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) would like to see Senate office expeditures available on line to the public. Fascinating since Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has already been supportive of publishing the House’s office expeditures on line to facilitate public access. This is in contrast to the current system that entails requesting the accounting information from bound books that can be accessed through certain government offices. The old fashioned way, in old fashioned time consuming method.
