{"id":8332,"date":"2006-08-30T10:13:34","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T14:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8332.html"},"modified":"2006-08-30T10:13:34","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T14:13:34","slug":"the-online-whodunit-narrows-in-on-a-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-online-whodunit-narrows-in-on-a-suspect\/","title":{"rendered":"The online whodunit narrows in on a suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I thought<\/a> Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) was a leading suspect. In the search for the senator who put a secret hold on a bill to create a searchable [tag]database[\/tag] of government contracts, Chambliss’ office refused to discuss the matter, which naturally spurred suspicions. Many of you, at least in the comments section, had your eyes on Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska).<\/p>\n

It looks like you guys were onto something<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Twelve days ago, at a town meeting in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) accused Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) of obstructing his porkbuster-database bill with an anonymous hold.<\/p>\n

That’s according<\/a> to an Aug. 18 article in the Fort Smith (Ark.) Times Record:<\/p>\n

One of the senators most criticized for his personal projects, Sen. [tag]Ted Stevens[\/tag], R-Alaska, has a hold of his own on Coburn’s bill to make public the spending patterns of the government. Called the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, the legislation calls for the creation of a database open to the public where citizens can track government spending.<\/p>\n

“He’s the only senator blocking it,” Coburn said of Stevens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Coburn could be wrong, but as Justin Rood explained<\/a> that Stevens certainly had motive — he’s not only a notorious pork-lover, he’s also nursing a grudge against Coburn for opposing his “bridge to nowhere” project a few months ago.<\/p>\n

For what it’s worth, 95 senators<\/a> are now on record as not being responsible for the [tag]secret hold[\/tag]. The remaining five are Sens. Byrd (D-W.Va.), Crapo (R-Idaho), Gregg (R-N.H.), Hatch (R-Utah), and Stevens.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: It’s official; Stevens fessed up<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I thought Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) was a leading suspect. In the search for the senator who put a secret hold on a bill to create a searchable [tag]database[\/tag] of government contracts, Chambliss’ office refused to discuss the matter, which naturally spurred suspicions. Many of you, at least in the comments section, had your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}