Campaign to Out the Senate Weasel(s) putting bill on "secret hold".

[chill_wind]

Weasel was the word I happened to hear Cafferty use tonite on this matter.
It seems very appropriate to me. Whether he/she/they be Dem or Pub, I detest this.

Background: http://federaltimes.com/index.php?S=2018089

Bill to bring openness to federal spending stopped by 'secret hold'
Search is on for senator who moved to avoid vote


more here:
By REBECCA CARR
COX NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON -- In an ironic twist, legislation that would open up the murky world of government contracting to public scrutiny has been derailed by a secret parliamentary maneuver.

link: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/282343_database24.html

I came across this following link (at dKos) while googling for more. Porkbusters has an all-out campaign to find out and are reporting the results so far. Who's been discounted, who remains suspect:

"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.

Who is the secret holder? We want to know, and we want your help finding out. Call your Senator, and ask them to go on the record denying that they placed the hold. Then e-mail Porkbusters and let us know what they said! Senators who issue denials will be removed from the suspect list --- and those who do not, won't!"


more
http://porkbusters.org/secrethold.php



Where does yours stand on the list called so far?

[Justice]

1. check out tpm - they are calling senators

www.talkingpointsmemo.com

[chill_wind]

2. Thanks. They appear to be working on it together.

Porkbusters is keeping an explicit list of the responses.

To paraphrase them:
"The list is growing extremely short."

[Rose Siding]

3. TPMmuckraker reports that Ted Stevens is responsible for the secret hold

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001440.php

[chill_wind]

4. Thank you RS.

I'm sure I'm not alone by far when I say his name was one of the very first few that came immediately to mind when I first heard about this.

What a dark and grave menace to freedom these Republican neo-fascists truly are.