Congressional Quarterly‘s Martin Kady II reports:
The Senate passed legislation Thursday night that would create a massive, Google-like searchable database to track federal spending.
The legislation (S 2590), which aims to create more transparency in exactly who gets how much federal money, passed by a voice vote after both Republican and Democratic senators dropped their objections to it.
The bill had widespread support in the Senate and became something of a cause célèbre in the âblogosphere,â where liberal and conservative bloggers united in trying to figure out which senator had placed an anonymous âholdâ blocking the legislation for the past month.
