Posted on July 28th, 2011 by Erica Gordon
Members of Congress should support House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) Budget Control Act of 2011 when it reaches the House floor this evening. The Congressional Budget Office has found that the Budget Control Act would reduce the deficit by $22 billion in fiscal year 2012 and $917 billion over 10 years, which is greater than the $900 [...]
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Posted on July 27th, 2011 by Deborah Collier
The mission of the Social Security Administration (SSA) has been clear from the start: to provide financial protection to workers and their families by administering the Social Security programs (retirement, survivors and disability) as well as the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. Now it seems it has another mission – creating and administering the “Baby [...]
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Posted on July 25th, 2011 by Tom Schatz
The debt ceiling debate as of this afternoon: In January, House Republicans passed a budget for fiscal year 2012; Senate Democrats voted it down, and have now gone 817 days without voting on any plan of their own. House Republicans approved Cut, Cap and Balance last week; Senate Democrats said no; President Obama said he would [...]
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Posted on July 22nd, 2011 by Erica Gordon
Washington has put Americans at risk by repeatedly violating a Budgeting 101 rule of thumb: Don’t spend more money than you take in. As a result of Congress’s irresponsible budget policies, the nation has surpassed its statutory $14.294 trillion debt limit. In an effort to get our nation’s finances under control, the House passed H.R. [...]
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Posted on July 19th, 2011 by CAGW Staff
As the President’s failing economic policies force more and more Americans into accepting unemployment benefits, fraud and overpayments in unemployment disbursements have become disturbingly common. The Washington Post observed on July 3, 2011 that fraudulent unemployment disbursements totaled $17 billion in 2010, and a USA Today article published the next day noted, “In the 12 months [...]
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Posted on July 15th, 2011 by CAGW Staff
Contract termination is a rare occasion for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The majority of NASA goods and services are acquired through contracts, very few of which are terminated. In fiscal year (FY) 2010, approximately 83.4 percent of the agency’s obligations were represented by contracts varying from human resources consulting services to costly [...]
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Posted on July 15th, 2011 by CAGW Staff
On July 14, 2011, the Washington Post discovered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is planning to spend $300 million on problematic radiation equipment. The radiation equipment in question is the Advanced Spectroscopic Portal (ASP), a machine created to prevent a possible nuclear attack by detecting radiological materials in cargo containers. Current radiological machines are [...]
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Posted on July 14th, 2011 by PJ Austin
Decades of unmanageable labor costs and excess infrastructure has left the United States Postal Service (USPS) in financial ruin. The USPS lost $8.5 billion in 2010, $2.2 billion in the first quarter of 2011, and is projected to lose another $8.5 billion in 2012. In April 2010, Postmaster General John Potter announced that the USPS [...]
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Posted on July 12th, 2011 by Erica Gordon
This afternoon, House lawmakers will vote on H.R. 2417, the Better Use of Light Bulbs (BULB) Act, introduced by Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas). The legislation would repeal certain provisions of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 and eliminate onerous energy efficiency standards for light bulbs that are scheduled to take effect in 2012. These new regulations [...]
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Posted on July 11th, 2011 by Deborah Collier
In August, Vivek Kundra, the nation’s first Chief Information Officer (CIO) will be leaving his post for a position at Harvard. Kundra has been a driving force behind the Obama Administration’s initiative on Transforming Federal Information Technology Management, and the “Cloud First” policy for IT purchases and solutions. His departure, as well as that of [...]
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