Let the sun shine...

Obama's early advocacy for transparency in government was a winner for me - but it's nice to see he hasn't lost a step.

(H/t Secrecy News)

On the same day that he became the presumptive Democratic nominee for President, Sen. Barack Obama introduced new legislation to expand public access to information about government spending.

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The new bill would build upon and improve previous efforts by Senators Obama and Coburn to provide public access to federal grant and contract information through the USASpending.gov web site. Among other things, it would require copies of each federal contract and details of the bidding process to be published online.

Hell, yeah.