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The Further Adventures of the Secret Senator!!!
Ok, so there was this bill called the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act. This was a bill introduced into the Senate earlier this year, with bipartisan sponsorship, by Senators Barack Obama (Dem., IL) and Tom Coburn (Rep., OK). The bill calls for, as the name sorta’ suggests, more transparency in what happens with federal money. But the legislation never made it to the Senate floor because a Senator put it on hold, without publicly identifying him/herself or stating a reason why the legislation was being held.
The blogosphere erupted over this, dubbing the holder the “secret Senator” and calling for a push to find out who was holding the legislation up.
Y’all remember our good friend Senator Ted Stevens, the Republican from Alaska who learned us all that the internet is like “a series of tubes?” Well you guessed it – Senator Ted Stevens is your Secret Senator. His people now claim, of course, that this wasn’t a secret hold, despite the fact that his office has apparently ignored the weeks-long call for the holding Senator to step forward. And his purported reason for blocking the legislation is the concern that it would “create an unnecessary layer of bureaucracy.” I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that it would make it harder for him to get bullshit funding for things like his so-called “bridge to nowhere.”
Senator Ted Stevens, everybody – putting the “cock” in “cockblock!”
