August 7, 2019 - 08:59 — Deborah Collier
In 1982, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DOD) were charged by Congress to share patient information for servicemembers transitioning from DOD into the VA health care system. This transition process has been anything but seamless, with medical records being attached to gurneys each time a patient was moved, and hundreds of millions of dollars being wasted trying to develop an interoperable medical records system between the two departments.
July 12, 2019 - 12:14 — Peter Klensch
A billion-dollar taxpayer bailout of failing multiemployer pensions is on the horizon.
Ten years ago, subprime mortgages went from being a little-known form of lending to the precipitating factor in the international banking crisis that led to the Great Recession. Multiemployer pensions, which have been allowed to systematically underfund plans and make unrealistic assumptions on return rates, now have the potential to cause a similar economic crisis and necessitate another taxpayer bailout.
July 2, 2019 - 14:45 — Thomas Schatz
The American people received an early Independence Day present on July 1 when President Trump signed into law H.R. 3151, the Taxpayer First Act of 2019.
May 21, 2019 - 12:43 — Peter Klensch
A U.S. Virgin Islands’ (USVI) public utility company is positioning itself to create a municipal broadband network that could come at the expense of hundreds of millions of duplicative taxpayer dollars under the guise of recovery from hurricanes Irma and Maria.
May 20, 2019 - 16:47 — Deborah Collier
The House Appropriations Committee released its report to accompany the Department of Defense (DOD) Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2020. Included in the report is language that would restrict the expenditure of funds for the DOD’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud procurement.
May 15, 2019
Dear Senators Cruz, Tillis and Cotton and Representatives Budd, Mooney and Davidson:
On behalf of the undersigned organizations, we write to express our support for your legislation to eliminate the Office of Financial Research, a duplicative and opaque agency created from Dodd-Frank and without congressional oversight.
May 15, 2019
Senate Business and Commerce Committee
Sam Houston Building
201 E 14th Street
Austin, Texas 78711
Dear Senator,
May 6, 2019
House and Senate Conference Committee
Omnibus Health and Human Services Finance Division Bill
Minnesota Legislature
95 University Avenue, West
Saint Paul, MN 55155
Dear Conferee,
May 6, 2019
The Honorable Cathy McMorris Rodgers
United States House of Representatives
1035 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Representative McMorris Rodgers:
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