For Immediate Release Contact: Leslie K. Paige 202-467-5334 November 7, 2013 Alexandra Booze 202-467-5318
Reinstate RAC Audits Now!
November 6, 2013 U.S. Senate Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Senator,
Department of Veterans Affairs Conferences: Where Government Employees’ Dreams Come True
On October 30, 2013, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing regarding wasteful spending at two conferences by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The two agency events were held in Orlando, Florida and cost taxpayers a minimum of $6.1 million, according to a September 30, 2012 report released by the […]
I Take Responsibility – Sort Of
Fireworks flew today during the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s hearing as Members of Congress grilled Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius about the disastrous roll-out of Obamacare. Much of it was a repeat from the hearing held on Oct 29 in the Ways and Means Committee with CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner as the witness. […]
Vote ‘YES’ on H. Res. 378
October 11, 2013 U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Representative,
We Aren’t Greece…Yet
There was a great article by Holman Jenkins in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday entitled: “Behind the Noise, Entitlement Reform.” My summary of his piece is: Perhaps if some Greek politicians had put their foot down 10 years ago to halt their country’s overspending and demanded reform of its nanny state, maybe their country […]
CAGW Releases October WasteWatcher
For Immediate Release Contact: Leslie K. Paige 202-467-5334 October 3, 2013 Alexandra Booze 202-467-5318 Sequestration is Better than Sliced Bread By Tom Schatz WasteWatcher, October 2013 It is time for official Washington to admit that sequestration is the best thing that has happened for taxpayers since Gramm-Rudman in the mid-1980s. Domestic discretionary spending is being reduced […]
Vote ‘NO’ on Helium Compromise
September 24, 2013 U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Representative,
President Obama Meet Senator Obama
As we approach the debt-ceiling debate (expected to be sometime between mid-October and mid-November) it is worth to review what Senator Obama said about raising the debt ceiling in March, 2006. You can find his statement in the Congressional Record here, page 2237. but I have provided it for you just below. Before you read […]
Vote ‘YES’ on FY 2014 CR
September 19, 2013 U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Representative,