Last night, the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to approve the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (aka the DATA Act), H.R. 2061.

The DATA Act, sponsored by Rep. Darrel Issa (R-Calif.), would amend the Federal Funding and Accountability Act of 2006 to make major, and much-needed, improvements to USASpending.gov, the website that track grants and contracts made by the federal government. The DATA act would require common reporting standards for all federal agencies, with unique identifiers. It would also stipulate that all data be machine readable, and include checkbook level expenditure data.

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Now that the DATA Act has passed the House, we encourage the Senate to move forward on its version of the bill. The Senate version of the DATA Act, S. 994, is sponsored by Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), and was voted out of committee earlier this month. S. 994 addresses many of the same issues as H.R. 2061. We urge the Senate to move on the DATA Act and join the House in a conference committee to resolve differences between the bills. Join us in asking the Senate to move forward on the DATA Act!



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