A Big Win for Transparency
It pains, PAINS me to write this–but kudos to Madame Speaker Pelosi for putting the itemized expenditures of every member of Congress online. The document, know as Statement of Disbursements of the House, has been published by law since 1964. This is the first year, however, that it has been posted online.
Virginia Watchdog posted this first and notes some curious expenditures. I have not gone through the items line by line and probably will not. It’s hard to tell who’s the worst/best spenders in Congress, given that Congressmen are all over the country with different needs in regard to how often they go home or communicate with constituents, but it’s still comforting to see this information out there for public consumption.
Now if only these practices would trickle down to the local level…..
