NPR has done a story on this as well: http://www.npr.org/...

WaPo as well: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

To those who "don't get it" -- this is about TRANSPARENCY. This is about the public being able to access information and holding officials accountable directly to the people by maintaining a database online that will cover staffers and high level executive and congressional employees and to let THE PEOPLE scrutinize this information.

And for some perpsecitve:

http://www.channel4.com/...

In many countries it's open information for ALL individuals!

We're a society, we're a community, we need to start to learn to hold our public officials accountable and force them to be transparent about things that you may not feel seem to be reasonable for yourself.

The corruption is rampant, and the manner with which this new bill repealing parts of the STOCK Act has passed was disgraceful -- Friday they pass congress, Monday the president signs.

This has been extensively covered and it's unfair for a few rascals here to be calling me a liar without any base in facts and to claim this is not a big deal and i'm over-reacting. I CARE about transparency and the STOCK Act (the original) was somewhat a victory for consumer advocates, and any watering-down of it is unacceptable.

