Don’t we have a right to know how they spend OUR money?

It is unbelievable to me that Congress and the President can pass and sign laws which instruct them to do specific tasks which make them accountable to the people, and then they can just ignore those laws with absolutely no consequence.    Yet, despite the law that requires them to do so, the Senate has not passed a budget in years.  So they are in violation of the law…and there is no consequence.  And now this story from the Weekly Standard:

Section 1513 of the “stimulus” legislation, which Obama spearheaded and signed into law, requires the executive branch to submit a new report every three months….

Section 1513 further specifies, “The first report…shall be submitted not later than 45 days after the end of the first full quarter following the date of enactment of this Act….The last report required to be submitted…shall apply to the quarter in which the [Recovery Accountability and Transparency] Board terminates under section 1530.”  Section 1530 declares, “The Board shall terminate on September 30, 2013.”

In other words, the Obama administration is required by law to submit quarterly reports on the “stimulus” through the third quarter of 2013.  By now, it was supposed to have released fourteen such reports.  It has released only eight.  The last one covered the period ending in June 2011.  That’s right — 2011.    Read the whole thing here.

I guess following the law and accounting for money is just for us little people.  After all, it’s only $831,000,000,000.