Posted on April 30th, 2010 by Sean Kennedy
In an effort to climb back into the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter engine competition, GE and Rolls-Royce have made a fixed price offer: for early-production engines bought in 2012, 2013 and 2014. The fixed price will fall progressively lower in 2013 and then in 2014, GE and Rolls-Royce officials said. The GE-Rolls-Royce team hopes that [...]
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Posted on April 30th, 2010 by CAGW Staff
The PMA Group is a defunct lobbying firm based in Washington D.C. that was founded and owned by ex-House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense staffer Paul Magliocchetti. In late 2008 PMA offices were raided by the FBI and the subsequent investigation led to the resignation of five of its senior lobbyists who started their own firm and brought clients [...]
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Posted on April 29th, 2010 by Leslie Paige
CCAGW applauds the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs for accepting an amendment on April 28, 2010 that would ban members of Congress from earmarking funds in the Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant Program. The amendment was offered by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) to the Pre-Disaster Mitigation Act of 2010, legislation that would reauthorize the Pre-Disaster [...]
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Posted on April 29th, 2010 by Leslie Paige
There is a brawl brewing in the bucolic fields of Queen Anne’s County, Maryland. The Obama Administration’s $862 billion stimulus fund, ostensibly targeted toward shovel-ready, jobs-producing projects, is going toward the construction of a decidedly non-shovel-ready 2,000-acre U.S. State Department security training facility that residents in the region neither need nor want. This tiny band [...]
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Posted on April 29th, 2010 by Leslie Paige
Link to original article by Sean Kennedy here: On April 21, 2010, the U.S. Treasury released its new version of the $100 bill. Featuring an updated portrait of Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, the bill boasts advanced measures to obstruct counterfeiters. However, while the federal government has recently focused on this large tender, more attention needs to [...]
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Posted on April 29th, 2010 by Leslie Paige
Link to original article by MacMillin Slobodien here: April 14, 2010 was not just the day before tax day; it was also the day when hard-working taxpayers got the news that $16.5 billion of their taxes was wasted on pork-barrel earmarks with the unveiling of Citizen Against Government Waste’s (CAGW) annual expose of pork-barrel spending, the [...]
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Posted on April 29th, 2010 by Leslie Paige
Link to original article by Erica Gordon here: On January 13, 2010, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) filed comments urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to tread lightly on the net neutrality issue and consider its significant impact on America’s flourishing broadband industry. CAGW filed a second letter on April 7, 2010 reaffirming its opposition [...]
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Posted on April 28th, 2010 by CAGW Staff
On April 28, 2010 CNN.com reported on a huge laser that might be able to zap away the energy crisis. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Northern California holds a laser three times the size of a football field. Its purpose is to produce a man-made star here on planet Earth by fusing scientific elements [...]
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Posted on April 28th, 2010 by CAGW Staff
In a move that reeks of election year posturing, the House and Senate have voted to block their automatic pay raise. According to the Hill: The move marks the third consecutive year lawmakers have voted to halt their automatic cost-of-living increase. The law governing congressional pay raises requires members to vote against getting a raise. [...]
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Posted on April 27th, 2010 by Erica Gordon
Yesterday marked the closing of the official public comment period in the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) open Internet proceeding. On January 13, 2010, CAGW filed comments urging the FCC to tread lightly on the net neutrality issue and consider its significant impact on America’s flourishing broadband industry. On April 7, CAGW reaffirmed its opposition to the proposed [...]
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