Posted on June 12th, 2013 by Casey Pifer
The Senate overwhelmingly approved its version of the Farm Bill on June 10, 2012 with a vote of 66-27. There is plenty to say about what is in the $955 billion legislation—with more than $760 billion for going to food stamps and nutrition programs, and billions more going to various other programs, it seems that [...]
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Posted on May 14th, 2013 by William Christian
“The farmers love this bill, The farmers love this bill, High, HIGH, the dairies go, The farmers love this bill!” While it’s a tortured version of the original, the verse scribbled above represents a more fitting rendition of the classic nursery rhyme these days, given ongoing congressional action. Today, the Senate will markup its version (S. [...]
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Posted on March 29th, 2013 by Tom Schatz
There are more than enough egregious examples of mismanagement and inefficiency to create “Government Waste TV.” Unfortunately, no such network exists. The next best option would be a ”Daily Waste” segment on a major network. While such programming has also not yet been created on a permanent basis, between Monday, March 25 and Friday, March 29, Fox News Channel went where no network [...]
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Posted on March 15th, 2013 by Tom Schatz
For many years, Big Sugar has claimed that the government’s sugar program operates at no cost to taxpayers. Citizens Against Government Waste and other opponents of the program have consistently objected to that claim, pointing out that while the sugar processors pay into the program, there is a cost to taxpayers through the bureaucracy that is necessary [...]
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Posted on March 13th, 2013 by Deborah Collier
On February 13, 2013, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing on the broadband stimulus programs managed by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Rural Utilities Service (RUS). At that hearing, a number of concerns were raised about the issue of overbuild within the programs across rural America, and [...]
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Posted on February 28th, 2013 by Tom Schatz
On the eve of sequestration, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today released Prime Cuts 2013, our annual comprehensive list of spending cuts. This publication is useful at any time; it is of particular importance when Congress and President Obama are facing multiple crucial budget decisions. The automatic cuts known as sequestration, necessitated by the Budget Control Act [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a multibillion-dollar federally owned and operated corporation that was established in 1933 in an effort to bring electricity and development to some of the most underdeveloped parts of the Southeastern United States. TVA’s nonpower responsibilities include recreational programs, the promotion of public use of federal land and water resources, [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2012 by CAGW Staff
The Daily Waste will examine how eliminating grants to manufacturers of worsted wool can save money for the taxpayers. In the early 2000s, a variety of changes to trade laws subjected domestic producers of worsted wool to increased competition. Consequently, Congress gave the Department of Commerce $5 million in annual subsidies to wool manufacturers that [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
The Daily Waste will examine the water infrastructure grants and how to save through elimination of the program. In his FY 2012 Budget, President Obama proposed eliminating targeted water infrastructure grants because they “are duplicative of funding available for such projects through the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds (SRFs), but are not [...]
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Posted on September 27th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
The Daily Waste examines the Clean Coal Technology Program and how to save $259 million in the program. The Department of Energy’s Clean Coal Technology Program picks winners and losers and unnecessarily distorts energy markets. It arbitrarily bets millions of taxpayer dollars on the hope that clean coal will be relevant in the future. A [...]
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