Remember how speakers at the RNC claimed that Barack Obama had never reached across the aisle to pass any major legislation?

Well ...

On April 6, 2006, S.2590, the "Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006," was introduced into the 109th Congress. The bill was eventually passed by Congress and signed by George W. Bush on September 26, 2006. It is now Public Law 109-282.

So what does this bill do? It mandates the creation of a single, publicly accessible website where anyone can see every Federal award (meaning grants, contracts, and other transactions where the federal government pays out money to someone). In other words, it puts the federal checkbook online for everyone to see. You may remember Sarah Palin promising to do this if she becomes VP? Well, someone beat her to it.

But who?

Turns out the bill was introduced jointly by four Senators, two Republicans and two Democrats. The two Democrats were Tom Carper (of Delaware) and Barack Obama. The lead Republican was Tom Coburn (of Oklahoma).

The other Republican was ... John McCain.

You can't make this stuff up.