Tucked inside the Appropriations Committee report on the Pelosi-Obama-Reid Trillion Dollar Debt Plan are quite a few sentences like this one:

However, the Committee has had extensive consultations with the Corps concerning how the funds provided under this heading could be used in broad program categories. – Pg. 27

…and this one:

However, the Committee has had extensive consultations with the Bureau of Reclamation how the funds provided under this heading could be used in broad program categories. – Pg. 30

These sound an awful lot like phone-marking (a practice where congresscritters call the agencies that will be dispersing their funds directly to make sure it is spent the way they want it to be) to us.

Since the Obama Administration is so committed to open and honest government, we look forward to very detailed reports about the true nature of these “communications” from all the agencies involved.