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2007 Congressional Pig BookCreated on March 11, 2008 at 12:52pm
Ever since Citizens Against Government Waste released its 2009 Congressional Pig Book on April 14, 2009, funding for the Joint Strike Fighter alternate engine has come under immense scrutiny. CAGW even has a web pagededicated to the engine...
The AARP, which claims to represent more than 40 millionseniors, yesterday endorsed H.R. 3962, the massive Pelosi healthcare bill. An analysis of the motivation for the AARP’s favorable position shows that it is based the group’s bottom line, not the best interests of its membership. Th...
Last evening,the Senate passed the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act (H.R. 3548),a bill mostly aimed at extending unemployment benefits. The bill also included the extension on the $8000 first-time homebuyers tax credit...
CAGW was quoted in Reporter Michael Grabell’s latest story on misspent stimulus cash. Here are a couple of the story’s highlights: Breakfast at Fuddruckers: $19.24. Snow cone and cotton candy machine: $146.89. Si...
In my dailydownload of GAOreports, this testimony on the financial condition of the USPS caught my attention...
Citizens Against Government Waste Tell the House: Vote NO on Speaker Pelosi's Healthcare Reform Legislation!
Source: councilfor.cagw.org
The House of Representatives is expected to vote in a matter of days on H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) disastrous healthcare reform bill.
The Wall Street Journalhad two good articles this week illustrating the pitfalls of having the government as a major stockholderor outright owner of a private business...
In the bizarro, parallel universe where Obama,Pelose,and Biden dwell,basic enumeration itself takes on an almost alien quality. For example,the AP reports that a significant portion of the so-called “saved jobs” from so-called “stimulus” planwere not actually jobs at all. No,sil...
Add The New York Times to the list of those opposed to the alternate engine...
On Sunday, the CBS program 60 Minutes ran a segment claiming that the Medicare program wastes $60 billion per year in fraud. Over a 10 year period, that amounts to at least $600 billion...
This Thursday, November 5th, at noon on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, there will be a House Call on Washington, where Americans from all over the nation will demand that Congress defeat the government takeover of healthcare...
Reuters reported today that GE’s F136 engine will require modifications that will keep it offline for the rest of the year. While speculation about the recent testing failure centered on the combuster for the engine, a GE spokesmansaid it involves a diffuser that directs air into the combuster. ...
Citizens Against Government Waste CCAGW Invites its Supporters to the House Call on Washington
Source: swineline.org
Vulnerabilities to Medicare fraud are built into the entire system. Congress doesn't have the stomach to enact tough oversight. Period. 3hoursago
The Washington Post confirmed today what most of us had already thought, when you are on an appropriations committee that gets to spend hundreds of billions of dollars, there is bound to be some shenanigans...
Way back when the “stimulus” bill was first proposed, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) advised taxpayers that this would be filled with wasteful spending programs. Later, after itpassed, CAGW identified some of these wasteful programs here, here andhereto cite just a few examples. No...
