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Federal spending database full of inaccuracies?

Kaitlin Lee, senior developer for the Sunlight Foundation, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss the group's recent "ClearSpending" report, which found that agencies misreport data on USASpending.gov.

Tags: Sunlight Foundation , spending , USASpending.gov , OMB

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Open Government and transparency

Open Government and transparency seems to the be the theme of the day today at Federal News Radio.

Tags: newscast , DorobekInsider , Alex Howard , Max Cacas , Ellen Miller , open government , Gov 2.0

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Federal checkbook balance off by $1.3 trillion?

A watchdog group has uncovered massive reporting errors in data on USASpending.gov. The Sunlight Foundation says that accounts for half of the government spending data reported last year. After spending over a year looking at the reports on USA Spending.gov, Sunlight's web developer Kaitlin Lee says they've launched ClearSpending.com to demonstrate their findings.

Tags: Federal Drive , newscast , management , USASpending.gov , Sunlight Foundation ,

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