held up a bill that would create a free, searchable database of government contracts and grants because he was worried about the proposal's price tag, his spokesman told me this afternoon. Its cost has been estimated at $15 million.
Senator Tom Coburn is the sponsor of the bill and
Sen. Coburn's spokesman John Hart questioned Stevens' motive. "The only reason to oppose this bill is if he [Stevens] has something to hide," Hart said.
Ted Stevens has a history of Pork-Barreling, and this only seems to prove the point of why we need such a database in our lives.
The Congressional Budget Office has calculated that Coburn's proposal would cost "$4 million in 2007 and about $15 million [total] over the 2007-2011 period." By comparison, Stevens -- who's been called the "King of Pork" by one government watchdog -- was recently publicly lambasted for his appropriation of more than $200 million for the so-called "Bridge to Nowhere," which would link Ketchikan, Alaska (population 8,900) with its airport on Gravina Island (population 50).
It's insulting.
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