Posted on May 26th, 2010 by CAGW Staff
When Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) was elected to Congress people were hailing a new era of government being that a “fiscal conservative” won the seat of the country’s most famous liberal (Sen. Ted Kennedy). Tea parties across the country celebrated. A recent op-ed authored by the new Senator in the Politico provided taxpayers with even more hope: [...]
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Posted on May 21st, 2010 by Sean Kennedy
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is on the lookout for at least $10 billion in waste to cut from the Department of Defense (DOD). Citing a redundant bureaucracy, wasteful acquisition practices, and a plethora of senior-level officers, Gates claims the DOD budget is ripe for reform: “The Defense Department must take a hard look at [...]
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Posted on May 20th, 2010 by Erica Gordon
Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted its 14th Annual Report on Mobile Wireless Competition. Despite overwhelming evidence of fierce competition in the marketplace, the FCC failed to conclude that the U.S. wireless industry is effectively competitive. How could the FCC logically come to this contradictory conclusion, especially after deeming the wireless industry “effectively competitive” [...]
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Posted on May 20th, 2010 by Leslie Paige
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released on May 18, 2010 found that there has been fraud detected at Head Start grantee centers. Head Start is a program managed by the Department of Health and Human Services and provides federal funding for child development services for low-income families, and was designed to make low-income children [...]
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Posted on May 19th, 2010 by CAGW Staff
On Friday May 14, 2010 President Obama signed legislation cancelling the Congressional pay raise for 2011. According to the Hill: The move marks the second consecutive year lawmakers have opted not to receive their automatic cost-of-living increase. The law governing congressional pay raises requires members to vote against getting a raise. Otherwise, the increase takes [...]
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Posted on May 17th, 2010 by Tom Schatz
Charlie Smith served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1993-2003, and was the Administration Floor Leader for the last four years of his term in office. He is now an attorney practicing real estate, corporate and estate planning law in Brunswick. While he reached a leadership position when he served the people of Georgia as a legislator, and [...]
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Posted on May 14th, 2010 by Sean Kennedy
Some Members of Congress just aren’t very good at listening. Despite repeated declarations from the Pentagon that the alternate engine program for the Joint Strike Fighter is unnecessary, duplicative, and wasteful, members of the House again acted in defiance of the Department of Defense. On May 14, the House Air and Land Forces and Seapower [...]
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Posted on May 14th, 2010 by CAGW Staff
Ever since Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski stated that he wants to reclassify broadband as a Title II common-carrier service, the net neutrality debate has heated up. FACT: Title II of the Communications Act was crafted in 1934 to regulate monopoly providers of voice services. Title II would essentially impose landline-style regulations on Internet providers that could include price regulation, [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2010 by Leslie Paige
Today, CCAGW sent a letter up to the Hill supporting legislation which has been introduced in both the Senate and House to implement new, tougher disclosure and transparency rules for the congressional earmarking process. Make no mistake, CAGW favors outright elimination of the process, but, in the interim, taxpayers need to get eyes on more aspects [...]
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Posted on May 11th, 2010 by Erica Gordon
This morning, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) joined the National Taxpayers Union, Americans for Tax Reform, Americans for Prosperity, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council to discuss its opposition to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) proposal to seek unprecedented authority to regulate the Internet. The FCC’s plan would treat the Internet by rules similar [...]
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