Watch Tom Schatz discuss appropriations pork with MSNBC’s Tucker Carlson: Paying for waste?
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CAGW still wants to know what the presidential candidates plan to do to get rid of pork projects. See the question we submitted for the debate last night: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN4_vm-5qr4&rel=1]
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CAGW Hails FCC’s Caution on 70/70 Rule Regulation “Chairman Martin has resorted to cherry-picking data in an attempt to increase government control of cable TV at the expense of consumers and the free market. The 70/70 rule is a relic from before the time of the Internet, satellite TV, and telephone fiber networks and should [...]
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Article in the Times West Virginian about Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), CAGW’s King of Pork: Byrd has helped earmark nearly $229 million in three major spending bills for fiscal year 2008. Most of that money will find its way to West Virginia. …Byrd’s largest single allocation is a $54 million earmark in the defense spending bill [...]
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Breakdown of projects and dollar amounts in LHHS by party affiliation: Party Projects % Dollar Amount % Democrats 1060 47% $458 million 46% Republicans 759 34% $317 million 31% Indep. (Sanders) 5 0.2% $850K Both 419 19% $258 million 26% TOTAL 2243 100% $1.033 billion 103%* *due to rounding
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The November Wastewatcher features the following articles: Reform Earmark Reform Mini-SCHIP Sinks California State Government Pigs Out CAGW Unveils New Blog
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Press Release: Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today makes public a comprehensive, searchable database of the 2,243 earmarks worth $1 billion in the Fiscal 2008 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education (Labor-HHS) Appropriations Act, H.R. 3043.
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See Tom Schatz take on November Porker of the Month Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) and his “First Tee” Defense earmark on this week’s CNBC Pork Watch.
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Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard argues that advocates for limited government and fiscal restraint shouldn’t give up the ship of state. One interesting observation: Divided government–Congress controlled by one party, the White House by the other–is a boon to limiting spending. Going back a half century, a study by William Niskanen of the Cato [...]
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