Coburn removes secrecy measure from transportation bill.

Last week, ThinkProgress noted that a secrecy measure had been inserted into House and Senate Conference report for the Transportation-HUD spending bill that would deny the public timely access to budget information in the bill. The secrecy measure has now been removed from the bill. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) told the Austin American-Statesman yesterday “that he has persuaded a key House appropriator to remove that provision.”