Is There a RAT in the Stimulus?

Byron York reports on a brewing controversy over a little-noticed provision in the stimulus bill to create the Recovery Accountability and Transparency (RAT) Board. This entity would, among other things, have some degree of oversight over agency inspectors general and the Board’s chair would be appointed by the President. According to Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), this provision was “snuck in” and “strikes at the heart of the independence of inspectors general.

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