"transparent spending" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe spending that is open and clearly documented, so that anyone can view the data with ease. For example, "The government promised that the new administration would provide transparent spending records to the public."
Each of these proposals to dramatically raise or eliminate contribution limits is rooted in justified fears about the increasing role of outside and non-transparent spending in elections since Citizens United.
A large body of research and evidence continues to warn us that an unregulated arms trade is helping to perpetuate corruption, unaccountable and/or non-transparent spending, fueling and exacerbating armed conflict, and undermining peace-building efforts.
Transparent budget spending, crowdsourcing government waste, unprecedented spending on polls, collecting school performance metrics, and rewarding civic app designers have co-existed with a massive expansion in Internet snooping and big-data spying.
Mueh praised the district for raising teacher salaries -- Boulder Valley's starting teacher salary, at $40,000, is one of the highest in the state -- and being transparent about spending.
But the Web site is part of a pledge by the Obama administration and Congress to make the stimulus spending transparent.
The Fabian Society's tax commission set out why it was the left – not the right – that had most to gain from a more transparent politics of spending and taxation; and the Fabians called for the pledge not to touch income tax rates to be ditched in 2001 and again ahead of the 2005 manifesto.
Would Booker champion the Data Act, or some version of it to make spending transparent?
Republican oversight Chairman, Darrell Issa, for instance, has proposed a bill to make federal spending transparent and traceable, through the DATA act.
But, as the Senate pushes to make federal spending transparent to the public, forces inside the White House are silently defang-ing the most powerful provisions without any explanation.
On top working on legislation to make federal spending transparent, making room for open source software in the government, and helping to liberate congressional data, he's now heading up the Open Government Foundation to spread Project Madison, a crowdsourcing legislative utility, throughout Congress.
Both individuals need to be transparent about their spending histories and any debt they might be carrying.
