Five Months After Stimulus, Interior Department Has Paid Out 0.4% of Stimulus Funds

Tomorrow, Friday, July 24th, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will provide a progress report to the House Budget Committee on how stimulus funds are being spent by the Department of the Interior. Hopefully, the Secretary will explain why out of the $3 billion allocated to the Department, only $310 million (10%) has been obligated to specific projects and only $12 million (0.4%) has actually been paid out. If the Department has a “huge backlog of shovel-ready construction projects,” why - over five-months later - has it only dispersed less than 0.4% of their available stimulus dollars?...PressRelease

Have we actually found an Obama appointee who can't spend money?

The Republicans are criticizing him, but I say put Salazar in charge of all the bailout/jobs/wasteful programs.