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Press ReleaseCCAGW Says “Don’t Drown Disaster Insurance Market”
For Immediate Release Contacts: Leslie K. Paige (202) 467-5334
The WasteWatcherDepartment of Homeland Waste
Since its creation in March 2003, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been dogged by criticism of its ability to fight waste, abuse and mismanagement. On September 6, 2007, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its latest...
The WasteWatcherLawmakers Choose Pork Over Bridge Safety
The I-35 Bridge collapse in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which resulted in the deaths of 13 people, dominated several news cycles and gave politicians the kind of somber photo ops they can rarely resist. Some, including House Transportation and...
The WasteWatcherEuropean Taxpayers Speak Out
When many Americans think of Europe, they conjure up images of slow-moving socialist bureaucracies. While this type of government may exist in some countries, there is a growing free market and taxpayer movement spreading throughout the continent.
The WasteWatcherRead Our Lips: No New Internet Taxes
In the fall of 1998, the Internet Tax Freedom Act put a moratorium on discriminatory and multiple Internet taxes on electronic commerce and access taxes at the federal, state, and local levels. With large bipartisan support, the ban was extended in...
The WasteWatcherCatastrophic Insurance is a Disaster
Congress is considering changes to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) as well as increasing the availability of state-sponsored insurance funds. Both initiatives would expose taxpayers to massive costs.
The WasteWatcher“Nutty” Earmark Rejected By Florida County
Some times you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t. In the case of Coconut Road in Florida, even though a member of Congress felt like wasting taxpayer dollars on a highway interchange project at Coconut Road and I-75, taxpayers in Lee County,...
The WasteWatcherNew Senate Ethics Bill
“Members of Congress have reproductive organs the size of BBs,” so said Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Colo.) in challenging his colleagues to enact real earmark reform. Alas, Sen. Coburn was proven correct as the Senate voted 83-14 to approve S. 1, misnamed “...
Press ReleaseCCAGW Calls Changes to Earmark Reform a Fiscal Fiasco
For Immediate Release Contacts: Leslie K. Paige (202) 467-5334
Press ReleaseCCAGW Urges Swift Vote on Nussle as New OMB Director
For Immediate Release
Press ReleaseCCAGW Statement on “Fairness in Farm and Food Policy Amendment”
For Immediate Release Contacts: Leslie K. Paige (202) 467-5334
