The Case of the Secret Senator

There is a bill going through the Senate that would effectivly allow one to "google," in the verb sense of the word, all government spending. I don't know what it does with Classified government spending, but I doubt one bill will bring that boat down.

The reason this is probably the best, nay, most worthwhile bill ever-could-be passed by the do nothing congress, is because it would let the citezenry make the decisions about the next Bridge to Nowhere. With citizens and mainly bloggers able to search through mounds of government spending, much of it pork-barel spending, bloggers could rally the citizens to put pressure on their government, and in the end action could be taken to stop such wasteful spending.

If anything it will give us bloggers something to talk about.

However a Senator of anonymous decent has put a hold on the bill, effectivly stopping it from being voted on when congress comes back into their yearly session, as session that out of 365 days - they only work for 84 of them. The bill, for what it's worth, is a bipartisan piece of legislation.

This Secret Senator, has garnered much attention from the blogosphere with sites like Hotair, Porkbusters, TPMukracker, and Flip on the story to try and narrow down the Senate to find the Secret Senator. See if the Senator is identified, and assuming he or she doesn't lie about it, then the bill could be voted on assuming again they acknowledge their role in the hold.

Even Senator Majority Leader has asked Senators to cooperate with bloggers if they ask questions so he could get the bipartisan bill passd in the next session, he asked Senate Minority Leader to ask the same of his party.

Let's just hope this is not just another election year ploy.

UPDATE: On my part...I should let you know where you can contact those Senators who have not responded to calls for a denial on placing the hold. See the tally here.