Bipartisan Senate Coalition Wants Inventory of All Federal Programs

U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington Dec. 17, 2013. Coburn held the news conference to release "Wastebook 2013," his annual report of "examples of wasteful and low-priority spending" of the U.S. Government. Alex Wong/Getty Images

WASHINGTON—A coalition of six Republican and three Democratic senators wants officials to inventory the costs, goals, and performance of all federal programs, then post the resulting database on the internet.

The co-sponsors of the Taxpayers Right to Know Act of 2019 include Senate Republicans James Lankford (Okla.), Joni Ernst (Iowa), Ron Johnson (Wis.), Mike Enzi (Wyo.), John Cornyn (Texas), and Rand Paul (Ky.), as well as Democrats Jon Tester (Mont.), Maggie Hassan (N.H.), and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz).