Posted on March 30th, 2010 by Tom Schatz
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has joined the Digital Due Process Coalition, a broad coalition of think tanks, advocacy groups, technology companies, and privacy advocates that are seeking to update the Electronic Privacy Communications Act (EPCA). The coalition includes AT&T, Google, Intel, Microsoft, the American Civil Liberties Union, Americans for Tax Reform, the Center for [...]
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Posted on March 25th, 2010 by Erica Gordon
On Christmas Eve morning, Senate Democrats managed to strong arm enough members with giveaways such as the “Cornhusker Kickback” and “Louisiana Purchase” to pass Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) healthcare bill, H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This $2.3 trillion legislation, packed with tax increases, insurance mandates, Medicare cuts, and rationed [...]
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Posted on March 25th, 2010 by CAGW Staff
Rep. Ron Paul has become known as Dr. No. There aren’t many government programs that he likes. During the 1990′s and the 2000′s the Republicans have been a party of hypocrites for requesting billions of dollars of pork-barrel projects while claiming to be fiscally conservative. The tables have turned. Even though the Republicans are still [...]
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Posted on March 18th, 2010 by Leslie Paige
As the tension builds over whether the House the Representatives will pass healthcare this week, using the ”Slaughter Rule” or not, the rhetoric has been spinning out of control for many weeks. At what point do hyperbole and spin morph into something else, something close to outright fabrication? This morning, headlines scream that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2010 by CAGW Staff
With apologies to the late John Denver, the headline is how taxpayers should feel about a new bi-partisan (that is not a typo) initiative to bring more transparency into government. According to The Hill: Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) introduced a bill Tuesday that would put all publicly available government information online in a user-friendly format. In [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2010 by CAGW Staff
The Democrat majority in the House of Representatives is trying to give a whole new meaning to the term “Open Government.” On election night in November 2006 when Democrats won a majority of the seats in the House, soon-to-be Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi promised “the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most [...]
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Posted on March 16th, 2010 by Erica Gordon
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has been a long time proponent of an open and competitive Internet, as limited regulation has afforded its unprecedented growth and development. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to produce a national broadband plan that would stimulate growth in providing broadband access [...]
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Posted on March 12th, 2010 by Sean Kennedy
In preparation for the forthcoming census, the U.S. Census Bureau sent out 120 million letters to remind the public that… well… there is about to be a census. Unfortunately for taxpayers, this friendly reminder cost $57 million. According to Komo News, the Census Bureau justifies the letters this way: …it costs around $85 million in [...]
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Posted on March 10th, 2010 by CAGW Staff
Most young boys, and now girls, look to the heavens and dream of being an astronaut. It is exciting to think about space travel and exploration. As we get older the dream slowly fades away but our fascination with space remains. And, as we get older we come to realize that travelling to the moon and space [...]
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Posted on March 9th, 2010 by Erica Gordon
House Democratic leaders are (finally!) considering a fiscally responsible move: a year-long ban on earmarks. Citizens Against Government Waste has long been a champion of earmark reform and elimination and applauds this effort. But will Democrats really put their money where their mouth is? According to a March 8, 2010 article in Roll Call: “The [...]
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