Lankford Continues Push For Transparency
Lankford pushes for funding transparency
by James Coburn, The Edmond Sun
EDMOND — A congressional House bill to require all federal agencies to provide taxpayers an annual report card for their programs was sent by committee to the House floor this week.
“The federal government cannot produce a list of all the programs, the cost of the programs and the metrics to evaluate the programs. That is absurd,” said Rep. James Lankford, R-Edmond.
The Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act mandates that every government program shall be identified and described, said Lankford, author of House Resolution 1423. Recommendations for improving efficiency would accompany the report cards, posted online, to reveal federal duplication and waste.
The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance lists 2,179 federal assistance programs available to state and local governments.
“This represents only one component of all government programs,” Lankford said. “Foreign aid programs and programs that provide services other than financial assistance, for example, are omitted from the catalogue.”