WashingtonWatch.com Users Changing Washington: Office of Management and Budget to Track Earmark Requests!
We’ve done it! WashingtonWatch.com users have brought permanent change to earmarking practices in Washington, D.C.!
Federal Computer Week reports that beginning next year the White House’s Office of Management and Budget will begin collecting and reporting earmark requests, as we have been doing on this site.
With our example, we’ve shown that earmark requests should be on the public record and in useful formats. The public wants to see what their members of Congress and senators are doing!
OMB deserves praise, of course, for recognizing and responding to the public interest in this issue. Americans want access to earmark data – including earmark requests – at a high level of detail.
The real credit, of course, goes to the WashigntonWatch.com earmark hunters around the country, who continue to enter earmarks into the database.
We’re close to getting them all, and we recently surpassed 20,000 earmarks! Take a look! (The latest update in our earmark hunting contest is here. And here is the current “wanted” list.)
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