Bloggers Will Join Bush in Bill-Signing Ceremony ; Pressed Congress for Spending Database
The Washington Times › September 26, 2006
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President Bush has invited bloggers to join him today as he signs into law a bill creating a database of federal spending a recognition of their role in forcing the bill through Congress over the objections of senior senators and an indication of how much bloggers are changing the political process.
A coalition of bloggers from the left and the right last month did what the Senate's Republican leadership could not: smoke out obstructing senators, bring public pressure to break their hold and move the bill to the Senate floor, where it passed by a voice vote.See the full content of this document
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Bloggers Will Join Bush in Bill-Signing Ceremony ; Pressed Congress for Spending Database
"The bloggers mobilized Congress; Congress did not mobilize bloggers," said John Hart, spokesman for Sen. Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma Republican who team...
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