House Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-WI) doesn't sound too happy about Recovery.gov's recent reporting errors on stimulus jobs created or saved. ABC News reported that a few jobs had been reported as created or saved
in a non-existent congressional district--Arizona's 15th (Arizona actually has eight), and the Office of Management and Budget actually
took 60,000 created-or-saved jobs off the national total due to "unrealistic data."
"Credibility counts in government and stupid mistakes like this undermine it," Obey said (
via The Hill).
"Whether the numbers are good news or bad news, I want the honest numbers and I want them now."
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