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 11th, 2013 by Silence Dogood
Just got hold of yet another email from Organizing for Action, President Obama’s perpetual campaign operation, about the sequester. Stephanie Cutter, the president’s former deputy campaign manager, sent the email to volunteers, lamenting how the nation was forced into the sequester because of GOP’s “obstructionism.” (As you will recall, the sequester is a process to [...]
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Posted on March 8th, 2013 by Tom Schatz
The House and Senate (after four years) Budget Committees will mark up the fiscal year (FY) 2014 budget resolution next week. Budget resolutions provide spending limits for each budget account, leaving specific policy decisions to authorization and appropriations committees. That does preclude suggestions for how to save money; in particular, both budget resolutions should call [...]
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Posted on February 28th, 2013 by Leslie Paige
According to an article in The Washington Times, that’s the amount of time the President gave Republican leaders in Congress this week to discuss the sequester. Now they plan to meet again on Friday, March 1. That also happens to be the day the sequester takes effect. Wow! How does the president find the time [...]
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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 February 15th, 2013 by Leslie Paige
Those were the exact words of the United States Post Office’s (USPS) Postmaster General (PMG) Patrick Donahoe earlier this week during a hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The hearing came just days after the USPS announced that it will move to terminate Saturday delivery of first class mail on August [...]
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Posted on February 8th, 2013 by Deborah Collier
The year was 1996. Bill Clinton was in the White House; scientists reported that there might be life on Mars; Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, was born; the T.V. hospital show E.R. topped the Neilsen’s ratings long before the “McDreamies” and “McSteamies” of the world entered onto the scene; the Simpsons became the [...]
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Posted on August 29th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
Today on the Daily Waste we will be looking at the Essential Air Service and its identity as a wasteful program. The EAS was created in the 1970s after airline deregulation in an effort to retain air service in smaller communities. Unfortunately, the program has resulted in exorbitant airline subsidies to communities where service otherwise [...]
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Posted on August 23rd, 2012 by CAGW Staff
The Daily Waste will continue to delve into Medicare for savings and we’ve identified $18 billion more that can be salvaged in addition to the $24 billion we outlined in yesterdays post. The populations that receive Medicare and Social Security are identical; thus, it makes sense that the eligibility age for each should be raised [...]
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