The DATA Act (H.R. 2146) gets a vote on the House floor today. The folks at the Data Transparency Coalition have put together a video to illustrate the problem, and this particular solution. We wrote more about the DATA Act in a post entitled: “The GSA Scandal: How to Fix It, How Not to Fix [...]
Congress is tripping over itself to respond to the scandalous spending of over $800,000 on a General Services Administration conference in Las Vegas. The GSA is an obscure $30 billion agency that provides for common needs of other agencies, things like office space, acquisition and contracting support, and so on. If the people handling the [...]
Sure, Congress debated a multi-billion dollar bailout for the auto industry. (Cost: $50 per U.S. family.) By early March, Congress must decide how hundreds of billions of dollars will be spent ($thousands per family) as it completes the annual spending process that it kicked down the road back in September. More than $800 per family [...]