On April 21, 2010, the U.S. Treasury released its new version of the $100 bill. Featuring an updated portrait of Benjamin Franklin, the bill boasts advanced measures to reduce the effectiveness of counterfeiters. However, while the federal government has recently focused on this large tender, more attention needs to be paid to the other end [...]
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is tasked ”to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation.” It now looks like some of the employees have been surfing pornography on government computers during work hours. According to an April 23, 2010 article in USA Today: Several senior staffers at the Security and Exchange Commission [...]
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The U.K.-based Telegraph reported on April 21, 2010 that: Google has repeatedly shown a “disappointing disregard” for safeguarding private information about its users, the privacy officials from 10 major countries have said. Britain’s Information Commissioner Christopher Graham and equivalent officials from Canada, France, Germany and Italy were among the signatories to a letter to the [...]
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A business man thinks it is unethical that he didn’t receive an earmark. According to an April 19, 2010 Roll Call article: Entrepreneur Paul Asmus didn’t get an earmark. And he thinks that’s unethical.So earlier this month, Asmus wrote to the Office of Congressional Ethics, calling for an investigation into the rejection of his request [...]
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On Wednesday, April 14, at 11:00 a.m. at the Phoenix Park Hotel on Capitol Hill, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) will release the 2010 Congressional Pig Book, the 20th Anniversary Edition. The event will include, as usual, the potbellied pigs Dudley and Winnie, as well as CAGW’s mascot, “Pigfoot.” I could reveal what is going to [...]
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Taxpayers have a victory. That felt quite strange to type considering the amount of big spending that has taken place since September 2008, but it is true, we have a victory. According to The Hill: The fight over net neutrality landed in lawmakers’ laps Tuesday when a court decision stripped the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) [...]
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According to an April 5, 2010, Roll Call article, House appropriator Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) withdrew one of her fiscal year (FY) 2011 earmark requests after the newspaper inquired about it. Taxpayers may remember House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey’s (D-Wis.) announcement on March 10, 2010, that the House Appropriations Committee would reject all earmark [...]
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