Another comment from someone “in the know”…

…[I]t will serve the interest of Democrats if they regain the executive branch to have wiped out any transparency of what they are up in the first year they have control of both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue and absolute dominance of the spending process (i.e., the full budget they’ll send up in Jan/Feb 2010).
Democrats and appropriators always play the long game. Fortunately, the T-THUD bill will be vetoed by Bush if it goes to the White House, and hopefully the OMB Director will insist this provision not survive any final jeopardy negotiations over spending bills in December—or January—or February—or whenever they occur.