CCAGW Gives Members the “Green Light” to Stop Government Abuse | Council For Citizens Against Government Waste

CCAGW Gives Members the “Green Light” to Stop Government Abuse

Press Release

For Immediate ReleaseContact: Alexandra Booze 202-467-5318
February 26, 2014 

 

(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) President Tom Schatz sent a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives urging members to support a series of legislative initiatives aimed at stopping government abuse and increasing transparency and accountability in the spending of taxpayer dollars.  The series, part of the “Stop Government Abuse Week” agenda, includes 14 bills in total, four of which have been previously endorsed by CCAGW.  The letter reads in part as follows:

“During ‘Stop Government Abuse Week,’ the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on a series of bills that will eliminate or reform burdensome laws and regulations, as well as help increase transparency and accountability. On behalf of the more than one million members and supporters of the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW), I urge you to support the following bills, the first four of which CCAGW has previously endorsed:

  • H.R. 1232 – The Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act, sponsored by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), which would increase the authority and responsibility of agency chief information officers, improve software asset management and optimization through software licensing auditing tools, encourage continued federal usage of cloud computing, provide for “approval by consent” of federal information technology (IT) contracts on which no action has been taken for 100 days, improve agency tracking operations and maintenance, and direct federal agencies to maintain their IT procurement practices in a technology and vendor neutral manner.
  • H.R. 1423 – The Taxpayers Right-to-Know Act, sponsored by Rep. James Lankford (R-Okla.), which would increase accountability and transparency in government by requiring every federal agency to disclose basic cost and performance information about the programs that they administer.
  • H.R. 3865 – The Stop Targeting of Political Beliefs by the IRS Act, sponsored by Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), which would prohibit, for one year, the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from enacting any changes to the rules governing 501 (c)(4) organizations.
  • H.R. 3308 – The Taxpayer Transparency Act, sponsored by Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.), which would require federal agencies to include language in mass mailings for certain educational and advertising materials disclosing that the communication was produced and disseminated at taxpayer expense.”

To view full summaries of legislation regarding “Stop Government Abuse Week,” click here.

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.

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