On Wednesday at the Heritage Foundation, I will host a panel of bloggers and journalists who helped push the Coburn/Obama transparency in government bill over the finish line. If you are in the area, please consider joining us.

Here is the blurb from the event:

Over the summer a coalition of conservative and liberal bloggers formed to support legislation championed in the Senate by Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Barack Obama (D-IL). The Federal Funding Accountability Act promised to create a “google for government” resulting in more open and more transparent government. Finally, the taxpayer would be given the power to track the often shadowy shifting of federal funds in regard to grants and contracts. On September 26, President Bush signed S. 2590 into law and, in so doing, awarded a united blogosphere its first major policy victory. Join us as a panel of bloggers and journalists explains how the blogosphere was able to push a once-stalled piece of legislation across the finish line.

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