"Most Americans have a checking account where their transactions are recorded, yet there is no such record-keeping mechanism for the federal government"
Inhofe, Vitter Introduce Government Transparency and Recordkeeping Act
Washington, D.C. - Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and Senator David Vitter (R-LA) late last week introduced the "Government Transparency and Recordkeeping Act," a bill which requires that all records of individual payments under 31 U.S.C. 1304, the Judgment Fund, are reported to Congress and made available to the public. As the top Republican on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Senator Inhofe has been requesting that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigate how much the Judgment Fund has paid relating to the environmental statues under the jurisdiction of the committee, but over the past ten years even GAO has had difficulties obtaining complete records.
