Posted on June 30th, 2008 by Leslie Paige
June 2008 Wastewatcher Un-FIT By Elizabeth Wright In April, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced that the House Republican Policy Committee had created the Fiscal Integrity Task Force (FIT). Taxpayer groups in Washington were elated. Finally, Republicans in Congress were rediscovering their fiscal soul. The goal of the FIT, according to Rep. Boehner, is [...]
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Posted on June 30th, 2008 by Leslie Paige
Washington, D.C. – Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today released its preliminary analysis of the House version of the Fiscal 2009 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act. There are 247 projects, costing taxpayers $134.9 million. Click here to see some outrageous examples of wasteful spending that members of the House added into to the [...]
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Posted on June 27th, 2008 by Leslie Paige
CAGW recently sent out 3 Pork Alerts for the House Appropriations Bills: Pork Alert: Military Construction Pork Alert: Financial Disservice Pork Alert: Homeland Insecurity .pdfs of all the earmarks in these bills as well as others can be found on this page: Fiscal Year 2009 Appropriations Earmarks
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Posted on June 27th, 2008 by Leslie Paige
CAGW is cited in this article on earmarking in the New York Times. Click here to see the lists of earmarks and our analysis as they become available. Earmarks Persist in Spending Bills for 2009 Despite a pledge by Congressional leaders to reduce pork-barrel projects, new information shows that both the number and amount of [...]
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Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Leslie Paige
This missive comes to us from an astute political observer and CAGW member from Pennsylvania who is keeping an eye on Rep. Tim Holden (D-Pa.). Our watchdog in Pennsylvania has done his own homework here and asks some intriguing questions: What is the price of an honorary degree? The Harrisburg (PA) University of Science and Technology was [...]
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Posted on June 25th, 2008 by Leslie Paige
Tom Schatz unveils June’s Porker of the Month and discusses wind turbine subsidies on Tuesday’s CNBC Squawk Box
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Posted on June 25th, 2008 by Leslie Paige
is Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) for accepting a preferential mortgage deal from a company which stands to benefit from a mortgage bailout bill he is pushing through Congress. Read more
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Posted on June 20th, 2008 by Leslie Paige
The latest GAO Report on the epidemic of tax cheating that is tolerated among Medicare providers: Our analysis of data provided by CMS and IRS indicates that over 27,000 health care providers (i.e., about 6 percent of all such providers) paid under Medicare during calendar year 2006 had payroll and other agreed-to federal tax debts totaling [...]
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Posted on June 19th, 2008 by Leslie Paige
Roll Call has information on an earmark that Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) may have air-dropped into an omnibus that went directly to his immediate family members: Earmark Drove Jefferson Case A federal grant that prosecutors claim was misappropriated by family members of Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) apparently originated as a last-minute Congressional earmark in a 2003 [...]
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Posted on June 18th, 2008 by Leslie Paige
For Immediate Release June 18, 2008 CAGW Calls for Full Review of Air Force Acquisition Process After Tanker Ruling Washington, D.C. – Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today called for a no-holds-barred congressional investigation of the procurement process at the U.S. Air Force following the decision by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to uphold the [...]
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