The idea – part of the proposed $850 billion economic stimulus package under consideration in Congress – is one of the reasons for the establishment of a new website, ReadTheStimulus.org, which is trying to collect volunteers to analyze the dollars and cents written into the 300-plus-page plan."One of the additional features we want to add … is more detail on the actual dollar amounts being appropriated in the bill text," the website says. "But to do that, we need to extract out all the individual appropriations and put them in a spreadsheet.
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