Posted on July 9th, 2010 by Leslie Paige
This seems to be the decree that some members of Congress live by, including House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Norm Dicks (D-Wash.). On March 10, 2010 House Democrats finally got enough spine to create some meaningful earmark reforms and instituted a House ban on for-profit earmarks. It took less than six months for Rep. Dicks [...]
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Posted on July 8th, 2010 by CAGW Staff
I usually have respect for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), but when they say that a government takeover of healthcare will reduce the deficit I seriously doubt their expertise and whether or not those analysts are drinking the Big Government Kool Aid. Now, they are saying that the climate bill will reduce the deficit. According to [...]
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Posted on July 7th, 2010 by CAGW Staff
On February 18, 2010 President Obama set up a bipartisan panel to address the deficit and debt. According to CBSnews.com: In making the announcement, Obama said that unless lawmakers put aside partisan differences, the continuing red-ink trend could “hobble our economy.” At the White House event, Obama was flanked by Vice President Joe Biden along [...]
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Posted on July 6th, 2010 by CAGW Staff
Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) has never been accused of being a fiscal hawk. That is why it comes as no surprise that the James E. Clyburn University Transportation Center at South Carolina State University is being audited. According to the heraldonline.com: S.C. State University’s board voted unanimously Tuesday to conduct an external audit on the James E. [...]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2010 by Sean Kennedy
On July 1, 2010 Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) released its analysis of the fiscal year 2011 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations Act. There are 73 projects worth $57.1 million in the bill, which is a 51.7 percent decrease from the 151 projects in fiscal year 2010, and a 47.9 percent decrease from the [...]
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Posted on July 1st, 2010 by Leslie Paige
This week, House Democrats proposed adding $45.5 billion in discretionary funding to H.R. 4899, the supplemental war funding bill. Unfortunately, politicians like to play politics with supplemental appropriations bills because of their urgency and their exemption from spending caps and other budget controls. This means that supplemental spending bills are not held to the same [...]
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