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Faux transparency of the House economic stimulus bill

Publication: Washington Examiner

Mark Tapscott
January 16, 2009

Democrats in the House are congratulating themselves for allegedly including historic levels of transparency and accountability in the $825 billion economic stimulus bill draft they released today. And indeed there are some definite steps forward in the draft, but a modestly close reading reveals that most of the "transparency" in this proposal is of the faux kind.