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Will Femia is a Weblog enthusiast who, through good fortune and dumb luck, was introduced to the form as his position as chat producer for MSNBC.com careered into obsolescence. On any given day, Will can be found having already spent an unhealthy amount of time squinting at a computer screen.

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Who is the secret holder?

Posted: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 1:47 AM by Will Femia

"Senators Tom Coburn and Barak Obama have proposed S.2590, legislation that would create a single website with access to information on nearly all recipients of federal funding. The bill cannot proceed, however, because one or more Senators placed a "secret hold" on it."

Bloggers and blog readers are calling their respective senators to find out who has secretly put a hold on the bill.  The list of possible suspects is rapidly narrowing.

UPDATE:  No sooner have I written the explanation than I see Wonkette pointing the finger at Senator Stevens.  If true it would hardly be a shocker that Mr. Bridge to Nowhere doesn't want American citizens to easily find out where federal money is going.

Seconded.

 

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Seems like bad magicians dealing with the "children"  who are exposing the "magic".

Hey! Stop looking at that frog, that's the Scorpions tail.

Sean Patrick (Sent Wednesday, August 30, 2006 2:46 AM)

And confrimed to be Stevens by TPM.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001446.php

Jason, Carlsbad, CA (Sent Wednesday, August 30, 2006 4:46 PM)

Yes...OF course the politicians don't want us to know how OUR money is being spent, this is not surprising

Steve, kansas city, ks (Sent Wednesday, August 30, 2006 4:54 PM)

Double secret probation you say?  
Good Lord!  We are SO doomed!

Dee (Sent Friday, September 01, 2006 11:59 PM)



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