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Press ReleaseAs Congress Holds Hearing, CAGW Highlights Broadband Waste
As Congress Holds Hearing, CAGW Highlights Broadband Waste
Press ReleaseCAGW Issues Spending Cut Alert: Federal Land Purchases
CAGW Issues Spending Cut Alert: Federal Land Purchases
Press ReleaseCAGW Issues SPENDING CUT ALERT: Export-Import Bank
CAGW Issues SPENDING CUT ALERT: Export-Import Bank
The WasteWatcherPlanned Spending Cuts Do Not Include Defense
One of the top priorities of the Republican’s campaign to take back Congress in 2010 was to reduce the deficit by cutting spending. Republican leaders intended to return nondefense discretionary spending to 2008 levels by trimming $100 billion in...
The WasteWatcherDoes Obamacare Save or Cost Money?
The strange world of congressional budget scoring obscures whether Obamacare saves or costs money, but it also provides insight into why the federal government is in such a financial mess. Revenue and cost figures are thrown about in an attempt to...
The WasteWatcherNet Loss
For many years there has been a vigorous debate on the pros and cons of net neutrality. On December 21, 2010, the nation took a technological step backwards when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to institute net neutrality rules on...
The WasteWatcherFederal Housing Administration: The Next Big Fannie?
In the upcoming session of the 112th Congress, lawmakers will be faced with the daunting challenge of what to do with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the nation’s two mortgage giants. These government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) have been under...
The WasteWatcherHigh-Speed Rail off the Tracks
When stumping for Rep. Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.) in October 2010, Vice President Joe Biden made a telling statement regarding the government’s role in investments. He credited the government with “every single great idea that has marked the 21st century,...
The WasteWatcherNew House Rules Focus Members on Making Serious Spending Cuts
On election day, taxpayers turned out in droves to support fiscally conservative candidates that they entrusted with the responsibility of cutting the federal budget, reducing the size of the national debt, and returning Congress to the hands of the...
The WasteWatcherObama’s SOTU, Yet Another Disappointment for Taxpayers
During a time of record annual budget deficits and public debt, the country, more than ever, needs solutions to its fiscal problems. Most taxpayers were expecting the President’s State of the Union speech to signal a major policy shift, away from...
Press ReleaseCAGW Urges DOD to Stop Funding the Alternate Engine
President Obama and Secretary Gates must eliminate government waste by not funding the alternate engine for the JSF.
Press ReleaseCAGW ISSUES SPENDING CUT ALERT ON THE DOLLAR COIN PROGRAM
CAGW ISSUES SPENDING CUT ALERT ON THE DOLLAR COIN PROGRAM
