(Washington, D.C.) The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste today released the following statement by President Tom Schatz in response to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on S.2373, which contains the infamous “Section 211,” special interest legislation originally slipped into the 1999 Omnibus Appropriations Act:

“Year after year, a single Bermudan corporation holds various entities of the U.S. government hostage as it aggressively seeks to protect its commercial dominance by preserving Section 211.  The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste is disappointed that members of Congress appear to be assisting in this commercial campaign.  How much longer will Congress use public resources to prop up a single offshore corporation at great expense to U.S. taxpayers and hundreds of American companies?” 

The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste is the lobbying arm of Citizens Against Government Waste, the nation's largest nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government.