Posted on May 15th, 2013 by Deborah Collier
On Tuesday, May 14, 2013, the House Oversight and Government Affairs Subcommittee on Government Operations held a hearing on “Data Centers and Cloud Computing: Is the Government Optimizing New Information Technologies to Save Taxpayer Dollars?” Citizens Against Government Waste’s (CAGW) most recent cloud computing report, the 2012 Federal Cloud Review discussed the potential for savings [...]
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Posted on February 20th, 2013 by William Christian
While February 2nd has long been recognized as Ground Hog Day, perhaps February 5th – at least for this year – should be coined Government Waste Elimination Day. On February 5, 2013, CAGW President Tom Schatz testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (OGR). The topic? “Government Spending: How Can We Best [...]
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Posted on April 10th, 2012 by Deborah Collier
On Thursday, April 5, 2012, the Department of Energy announced it would award prizes totaling $100,000 to app developers for energy-focused applications for public use. According to an article about the competition in Government Computer News, the largest of these awards would be $30,000 for the best overall application. This continues the growth in government [...]
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Posted on April 2nd, 2012 by Deborah Collier
An April 1, 2012 article in Government Executive indicates that some progress is being made in the area of government transparency. However, despite the President’s call for a more open and transparent government following his inauguration, the federal agencies may still not be as transparent in their activities as they could be, particularly in presenting [...]
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Posted on February 2nd, 2012 by Leslie Paige
On January 10, 2012, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) released a report on state and local government defined benefit pension plans in which he detailed the risks associated with the nation’s $4.4 trillion public pension debt, calling the defined benefit pensions structure “inherently flawed in the state and local government setting.” This massive liability is dangerous [...]
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Posted on September 23rd, 2011 by Leslie Paige
It’s a shame that the Obama administration didn’t pay as much attention to the details of Solyndra’s business plans and financial liabilities as it did to the details of the President’s photo op at the company’s facility on May 26, 2010. But, given the rampant mismanagement and weaknesses associated with the Energy Department’s whole loan [...]
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Posted on May 25th, 2011 by Leslie Paige
A General Accounting Office report released Tuesday found at least 3,700 federal government contractors and nonprofits that received money from the 2009 stimulus program owed the federal government back taxes. These entities, which received nearly 10 percent ($24 billion) of the $275 billion the stimulus allotted for federal contracts, loans, and grants, owe the government a [...]
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Posted on May 17th, 2011 by Luke Gelber
The following Op Ed by CAGW President Tom Schatz appeared today in Investor’s Business Daily. Some highlights: According to a mid-May news story, Democrats are considering using the issue of the auto bailouts in the 2012 election — as a political asset. The argument is, since government losses appear to be “minimal,” Americans will likely [...]
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Posted on April 1st, 2011 by Leslie Paige
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) slammed executives at the nation’s two largest government-sponsored enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, for pocketing enormous salaries while the two enterprises flounder under government conservatorship. The GSEs collapsed in September 2008 and taxpayers have been forced to pump $153 billion into them to keep them solvent. The Treasury Department’s [...]
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Posted on March 18th, 2011 by Leslie Paige
Love having uber-blogger Mickey Kaus over at The Daily Caller. Today he has a great, link-filled blog post on the rationale for cutting wasteful spending, linking to an earlier post by Michael Kinsley as well. Kinsley makes a nice case for why cutting waste, fraud, and mismanagement in discretionary programs is worth the effort, even though [...]
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