1.0 link 61851 <![CDATA[Obama Only Dem Candidate To Pledge "Google Government"]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/08/26/obama-only-dem-candidate-_n_61851.html It is one of the unlikelier alliances in the 2008 presidential campaign: what possibly could bring together Barack Obama, Sam Brownback and Ron Paul? The answer: the highly ambitious, if infelicitously named, Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act.

The act is meant to bring average Americans a kind of Google for the federal government, an online search engine that will allow citizens to look up any company, organization or other entity receiving federal contracts, grants and earmarks. The act was passed...

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