Posted on December 17th, 2010 by Leslie Paige
(Washington, D.C.) – Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today expressed relief on behalf of all taxpayers that Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) pulled the pork-laden omnibus spending bill from the Senate floor. CAGW President Tom Schatz said, “We are excited to see that the Senate has gotten off of the spending omnibus. Americans sent an [...]
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Posted on December 15th, 2010 by Leslie Paige
(Washington, D.C.) – The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) today urged members of Congress to vote against the Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 omnibus spending bill. According to preliminary analysis by CCAGW, the bill is larded with 6,631 earmarks totaling $8.6 billion. These preliminary figures do not include anonymous earmarks, items which have been [...]
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Posted on December 13th, 2010 by CAGW Staff
Back on November 23, 2010 Citizens Against Government Waste blogged about an education issue that hadn’t gotten much attention: …the DOE [Department of Education] has proposed unfair “gainful employment” rules which call for for-profit schools (and just for-profit schools) to prove their graduates are either paying back loans or are capable of doing so. If [...]
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Posted on December 9th, 2010 by CAGW Staff
I don’t want to sound alarmist but there may be an indication that some Republicans may be re-thinking the earmark ban, or at least trying to find a way around it. According to Politico: So some Republicans are discussing exemptions to the earmark ban, allowing transportation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and water projects. While transportation [...]
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Posted on December 8th, 2010 by CAGW Staff
Taxpayers are mad and they vented their frustration on November 2 when they handed control of the House of Representatives back to the Republicans. It was clear that people were frustrated with business as usual. Part of that business as usual was reckless and over spending. In deciding the next Committee Chairs the Republican leadership had an [...]
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Posted on December 7th, 2010 by Erica Gordon
On November 30, 2010, the Senate voted down a proposed earmark moratorium in a 39-56 vote. Senator Tom Coburn’s (R-Okla.) amendment #4697 to S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, would have enforced an immediate binding earmark moratorium to last through fiscal year 2013 and created a rule to allow members to raise points [...]
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Posted on December 6th, 2010 by Tom Schatz
MSNBC’s Eamon Javers reported today that there are printing flaws, including blank spaces, in the federal government’s new $100 bills. The cost of the 1 billion new bills, worth $110 billion, is $120 million. Javers reported that none of the bills can be circulated until the erroneous currency is separated, which could take up to one year. While they sort out the good bills [...]
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Posted on December 3rd, 2010 by Sean Kennedy
One of the unwritten rules of the House of Representatives is that every time the legislative body flips control, the new Speaker of the House cuts a program or enacts a policy that serves as a symbol that Congress is not imperial. When Newt Gingrich took over as Speaker in the Republican revolution of 1994 [...]
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Posted on December 2nd, 2010 by Leslie Paige
Taxpayers will be happy to know that an omnibus appropriations bill, likely to be chock full of wasteful government spending, is not expected to be on the table this week in Congress. A continuing resolution (CR) is looking more and more like the legislative vehicle that will keep the government funded. According to a November [...]
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Posted on December 1st, 2010 by CAGW Staff
Millions of Americans sent a clear message on November 2: Business as usual will no longer be tolerated. And, for the moment it seems like the new House leadership has gotten the message. First, they swore off earmarks, now they are talking about a whole new way to fund the government. According to Politico: House [...]
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