TWO EPA BUREAUCRAT PANELS MEET SECRETLY, SPEND BILLIONS: And no, you can’t have the names of the bureaucrats on either panel, minutes of their minutes or records of their spending decisions, reports Ethan Barton of the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group.

“Congress appropriates about $1 billion annually for EPA’s Superfund program, and the agency has accumulated nearly $6.8 billion in more than 1,300 slush fund-like accounts since 1990,” according to Barton. “Two committees consisting entirely of EPA officials meet behind closed doors twice annually to decide how the agency spends those funds on highly polluted – and often dangerous – Superfund sites.”

Even though Superfund sites can involve significant risks to the public health, “all reports to and from the groups, as well as the minutes of their meetings and all other details, are kept behind closed doors,” Barton reports.

Secret meetings. Spending without accountability. No public records of who they are. Will Congress – the “First Branch” of the government established by the Constitution – do anything about it?