Posted on June 27th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
All problems always require big-government solutions, or so our elected officials in Washington seem to think. In order to address America’s endemic obesity problem, the federal government has been appropriating billions in public funds to subsidize various initiatives aimed at encouraging Americans, especially lower-income Americans, to eat better, exercise more, and live generally healthier lifestyles. [...]
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Posted on June 19th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
A June 2012 report released by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) called for responsible government action in reducing the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Market Access Program (MAP). The report exposed MAP’s inefficiencies, including wasteful spending, overlap within the program, as well as duplication with other government programs. “With a host of other agricultural priorities, it [...]
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Posted on June 15th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
Many of you may recall a now infamous boondoggle from 2010, when the Obama administration spent more than $3 million in taxpayer money to air three pro-Obamacare commercials starring Andy Griffith. According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), these ads incurred a total of $404,000 in production costs and $2.8 million in [...]
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Posted on June 12th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
While Congress works to approve the 2012 Farm Bill before the current one expires in September, lobbyists for the domestic sugar production industry have been pouring into Washington, fighting any attempts to cut or dramatically alter the federal government’s sugar program. It should come as no surprise that U.S. sugar producers are fighting hard to [...]
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Posted on June 11th, 2012 by Deborah Collier
As part of the Recovery Act in 2009, Congress authorized $4.7 billion towards the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) grant program. To contract this figure, according to data compiled last year, the private sector invested over $250 billion from 2008 to 2011 in broadband infrastructure improvements and development. Last December, The Daily Caller reported that [...]
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Posted on June 8th, 2012 by Luke Gelber
Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) joined 13 fiscally conservative, pro-competition groups in signing a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski. The letter urges Chairman Genachowski to approve the transfer of spectrum licenses from SpectrumCo and Cox to Verizon Wireless, which would allow for a much-needed increase in the supply of spectrum [...]
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Posted on June 8th, 2012 by PJ Austin
An April 2012 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that excise tax increases on certain tobacco products have resulted in dramatic shifts by manufacturers and consumers toward lower tax products. Specifically, the implementation of taxes on roll your own tobacco and small cigars have led to increases in production and consumption of pipe tobacco and [...]
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Posted on June 8th, 2012 by Sean Kennedy
On the heels of much-publicized difficulties with the F-22 Raptor’s oxygen system, the Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded Lockheed Martin a $19 million contract to retrofit an automatic oxygen system on 40 of its own planes. Since 2008, difficulties with oxygen systems on the F-22 have contributed to oxygen deprivation for pilots in 25 instances, [...]
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Posted on June 8th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
The irresponsible spending in Washington has reached a new level. On June 7, 2012, a report released by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) called out the federal government for literally doing nothing with a significant amount of taxpayers’ dollars. Sen. Coburn identified more than $70 billion left unspent by the federal government dating back to 1996. [...]
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Posted on June 7th, 2012 by Deborah Collier
To update a January 20, 2012 Swineline blog post about Federal Risk Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), a June 5, 2012 article NextGov announced that the federal government has begun accepting security certification applications from cloud services vendors starting on June 6, 2012. As previously stated in the Swineline blog post, while FedRAMP does not constitute a [...]
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