Talk:Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006

message: Can  someone add a link into usaspending.gov from the FFATA of 2006?  Also, the usaspending.gov could use a little editing :)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gashad (talk • contribs) 04:55, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: USASpending.gov

message: It has been noted by several groups that the secret hold may be scandalous for several reasons: 1) Sen. Stevens is a member of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs which approved S. 2590 to go to the Senate, 2) Sen. Colburn claims that Sen. Stevens never explained to him (the author) his reason for the hold (nor attended the sessions on the bill), 3) Sen. Colburn claims that Sen. Stevens has been dodging his attempts to discuss the hold, and 4) Senators Stevens and Byrd are well known for placing earmarks into bills--something this act would allow the public to more easily see (potentially making it more difficult).  Two additional ironies are that 1) some groups have noted is that Sen. Stevens was famous last year for supporting the $200 million Bridge to Nowhere project but has held this $15 million bill because he was concerned about the cost, and 2) a bill about opening the secrets of the Congresional budget process was held up with a secret mechanism.  I'll grab the references for these statements a little later (though I believe that Instapundit, Porkbusters, and TPMmuckracker have all of these references on their front pages).  I think we will have to be careful with describing the emerging pork scandal since neither Sen. Stevens nor Sen. Byrd have released many statements on the potentials scandals/ironies.  One final issue that has been mentioned is that Sen. Colburn strongly opposed Sen. Stevens' bridge earmark last year.  There is no evidence that Sen. Stevens held this bill for this reason (nor can we assume that), but it should be kept in mind.--Burzum 15:06, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good stuff.  Conceivably this could be a separate article with a brief summary here. We obviously have to be very careful about NPOV.  So e.g. to amplify your first point we can say that the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs unanimously approved the Act, that Stevens is a member of that Committee and that he placed a secret hold (even then we should try to sort out whether he voted for it or simply wasn't present).  But there is no need for us to comment that this is "ironic" or "hypocritical" or whatever; we can just let the facts speak for themselves (if desired, we can add third party commentary).Crust 16:01, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pork Scandal

message: I believe the bill in the House was passed without amendment contrary to my whitehouse.gov link due to the Instapundit story (which includes a letter from House Majority Whip Roy Blunt).  I'll know for sure on 14 September 2006 when the Thomas database updates.  The whitehouse.gov link indicates that the bill will be going back to the Senate, but I believe a cited letter from the Majority Whip is a more credible source for now.--Burzum 01:39, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Correction, it was passed with S.Con.Res. 114 by the House and the Senate on the same day.--Burzum 15:04, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Passage by the House

message: Should there be an article on Strengthening Transparency and Accountability in Federal Spending Act of 2008?  RJFJR (talk) 22:21, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Follow up

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message: Could someone please remove the crosslink to the Robert Shea (the co author with Robert Anton Wilson of Illuminatus) article, as that gentleman left this plane of existence in 1994 and so could not possibly have been an associate director of OMB at the date of implementation?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frater Iasion (talk • contribs) 16:25, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Implementation