To: The United States Senate
DATA Act to Standardize Federal Spending and Reporting Stuck in Senate Homeland Security & Govern...
Please join your colleagues in the House to ensure passage of the bipartisan DATA (the Digital Accuracy and Transparency Act). This bill, sponsored by Senator Mark Warner, is currently stuck in the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.
Why is this important?
In the Clear Spending Project, the Sunlight Foundation discovered $1.3 trillion dollars of inaccurately reported federal government spending on the open data website (data.gov). This could be remedied with application of the Digital Accuracy and Transparency Act (DATA), which would standardize reporting by all government contractors and agencies by ensuring complete disclosure of each expenditure, tying it to a specific program and reporting it in a standard data format. DATA passed UNANIMOUSLY by voice vote in the House but is currently stalled in the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee of the Senate.