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Press ReleaseSenate Releases Energy and Water Appropriations Bill
Senate Releases Energy and Water Appropriations Bill
Press ReleaseSpending Cut Alert: Senate Energy & Water
Spending Cut Alert: Senate Energy & Water
Press ReleaseSenate Releases Energy and Water Appropriations Bill
Senate Releases Energy and Water Appropriations Bill
Press ReleaseSpending Cut Alert: Senate Energy and Water
Spending Cut Alert: Senate Energy and Water
The WasteWatcherWithout Major Reforms, SSDI Program Headed for Insolvency
According to a June 14, 2011 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) trust fund is on track to run out of money by 2018. Although the SSDI’s financial woes have been exacerbated by a dramatic...
The WasteWatcherTechnology Policy Update
On August 16, 2011, CAGW recently filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on a petition from the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA) seeking clarification on the commission’s interpretation of Section 652...
The WasteWatcherSlash Spending Now!
President Obama was quite clear on his expectations for a deal to raise the debt limit: “The only bottom line that I have is that we have to extend this debt ceiling through the next election, into 2013.” While the President blatantly telegraphed...
The WasteWatcherTo Honor The Fallen, Stop Wasting Money
When the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was established in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, lawmakers decreed that the new House and Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittees would not accept earmark...
Press ReleaseSenate Releases Agriculture Appropriations Bill
Senate Releases Agriculture Appropriations Bill
The WasteWatcherCCAGW Supports Boehner’s Budget Control Act
With the clock ticking and the nation’s economic future hanging in the balance, the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) urged all members of Congress to support House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) Budget Control Act of 2011. The...
The WasteWatcherThe Pig Book is Alive and Well
Congress is supposed to be on a no-pork diet in 2011. After Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) nonbinding one-year earmark moratorium passed in the Senate on November 16, 2010, and as more and more politicians began to speak publicly about the importance of...
