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Missouri Governor's Accountability Site Eclipses Six Million Hits

The Missouri Accountability Portal holds state government accountable for its spending choices.

Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt today highlighted the success of his Missouri Accountability Portal (MAP) as the site topped the 6 million hit mark, providing all Missourians with valuable information about how their tax dollars are spent.

"My administration has been focused on being a faithful steward of Missourians tax dollars while at the same time improving efficiency and customer service," Blunt said. "The Missouri Accountability Portal holds state government accountable for its spending choices by providing a free, online tool that tracks how the state spends your hard-earned money. My goal is to ensure that state government is accountable to Missourians for every dollar we spend."

The governor's MAP site is an Internet site enabling Missourians to track the expenditure of all tax dollars in near real-time. Since launching the new Internet site last year there have been 6,165,727 hits.

The MAP site is one of the first comprehensive databases of financial records based on real-time data in the nation, said the Governor's Office in a release. The MAP site is updated at the close of each business day to provide up-to-date access to information about state spending. Users can search the MAP site by budget category, vendor or contract. Links to other public information maintained by the state are also available on the MAP site. The MAP expenditure site has also been enhanced to allow Missourians to review state expenditures by state agency and information regarding tax credits administered by the Missouri Department of Economic Development since tax credit application year 2000. The site also provides easy to access, real time information on state employee salaries.

Americans for Tax Reform has lauded Gov. Blunt for creating the Internet site. "Gov. Blunt is one of the first governors to enable taxpayers to become fiscal watchdogs, and I commend him for taking this step towards greater fiscal transparency," said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.

In his State of the State Address Blunt urged the General Assembly to make the MAP site permanent to ensure future transparency for Missouri taxpayers.