Stimulus Watch Montana

Denny Rehberg has created a unique website that allows Montanans to report problems, waste or concerns about the nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.

Despite assurances of unprecedented transparency, reports from across the state and the country are surfacing about the difficulty people face in trying to track how stimulus tax dollars are being used.

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Stimulus Watch Montana, the first website of it's kind, is available from Rehberg's official website or by clicking here.

To watch Denny talk about Stimulus Watch Montana via YouTube, CLICK HERE.

In Denny's Words:

“Almost every day, I hear from Montanans who are concerned – and sometimes downright ticked off – about how a faceless bureaucracy in Washington, D.C. is mishandling stimulus funds.  Whether it’s spending an extra $45 million on a federal courthouse in Billings or hiring out-of-state companies to watch Montana’s northern border, Montana Stimulus Watch provides a place for folks to report problems, which in turn helps me in fixing the problem in Washington.”

Here's what Tom Schatz, the President of the Citizens Against Government Waste had to say:

“This unique initiative will help expose how money is being spent in the stimulus.  More importantly it will enable those who are paying for these projects – the taxpayers – to become watchdogs for their own money.  Stimulus Watch Montana is needed because the Recovery.gov website, which is run by the White House, will not be fully functional until October.  Rep. Rehberg is setting a good example that his colleagues should follow, so that taxpayers in every congressional district will know more about where their hard-earned dollars are going, or not going.”