On this Sunshine Week, a bipartisan transparency bill aims to shine light on the dark corners of the federal government.
The Expedited Transparency Act bolsters the bipartisan effort that created USASpending.gov in 2006, the official open data source of spending information for the U.S. government. The bill dramatically speeds agency reporting deadlines from 30 days to three days, moving the leviathan government closer to the ultimate goal of open government advocates: real-time transparency.
