Stevens is Smoked Out

Palm Beach Post ^ | August 30, 2006 | Rebecca Carr

[burzum]

By Rebecca Carr | Wednesday, August 30, 2006, 01:17 PM

After much speculation, a staffer to Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, admitted to Cox Newspapers today that the senator is the lawmaker who placed a “secret hold” on legislation that would open up the obscure world of government contracting to public scrutiny.

Until now, it was a political whodunnit as to who quietly blocked legislation introduced by Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., that would create a searchable database of government contracts, grants, insurance, loans and financial assistance, worth $2.5 trillion last year.

[ASOC]

Can't wait to see the database and wonder how of it will be 'redacted'.

Or is this just an election year stunt?

[Tulsa Ramjet]

Coburn is a pitbull. Stevens, need to find a new career "...to nowhere."

[Jake The Goose]

This guy has a serious case of "old man syndrome".

Some good boys simply grow up to become angry old men.

Bad sex, no sex, something goes very wrong when this kind of things comes out of member of the republican party.

If true - we have to smoke this guy out and blast his ass.

[Suzy Quzy]

I LOVE Coburn!!

[2Jedismom]

Until now, it was a political whodunnit as to who quietly blocked legislation introduced by Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., that would create a searchable database of government contracts, grants, insurance, loans and financial assistance, worth $2.5 trillion last year.

Oklahoma Ping!

If you want on
or off this list
Freepmail me.

[D-Chivas]

Revenge Of The Tubes!

[jpl]

This Ted Stevens character is nothing but a white-collar thief. The Republicans should have taken him up on his offer to quit and said "don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out."

[PDR]

OH PLEASE!!!! It was obvious to anyone who knows anything about the Senate that Stevens was the one with the hold on the bill... its a non-story.

[msnimje]

Here is how I imagine it happened.

Stevens office got several hundred phone calls about this issue and when it was clear Stevens was the culprit he yelled at his assistant,

"You're damned right I ordered to code red!! "

[xcamel]

Geee... "R-Alaska".... "Palm Beach Post"

What's wrong with that picture?

[ravingnutter]

a searchable database of government contracts

Oh good grief...this is public info already.

FedBizOpps

Just check the "Awards" box and do a search on any term you want. It is mandatory that all contracts be listed there. I can't believe how ignorant the Congressmen are on this subject.

[Wings-n-Wind]

L... I B

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[bstein80]

I posted my comments here:
http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/?p=438

These guys are unbelievable.

[PDR]

which guys - freedom works or the senate?

armey needs to move to alaska and run against stevens (despite what he told phil gramm about running for the senate)

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Thank you for the update.


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1691885/posts

[ravingnutter]

This database already exists:

FedBizOpps

Check the "Awards" box and do a search on any term you want. Or you can search awards by Dept. All Federal Agencies are required to use that system, it cannot be "redacted". As I stated in a post above, I can't believe the Congressmen are so ignorant on this matter.

[ASOC]

I used to look at the CBD to see what was up in my neck of the woods (I worked at a PTAC) but haven't bothered for some time.

Thanks for the link - does it include grants?

[Enterprise]

Disgusting