Tom Schatz
Tom Schatz
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Until Congress sets priorities and restrains overall spending, members will continue to get failed ratings for protecting the interests of taxpayers,
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would mandate that state agencies use only open formats for the storage of documents by January 1, 2007.
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Our point is simple. These projects were wasteful before, and they only seem more wasteful because we have a real emergency,
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It is bad procurement policy for any state to unilaterally lock itself into one set of technologies.
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I would like to once again ask members of Congress to take a good hard look in the mirror and ask themselves whether their parochial pork projects are really more important than our national and fiscal security.
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Members of Congress are well aware that we are about to face massive debts and deficits, and we're spending for an entrance to a museum? It's just not a national priority under any circumstance, and less so when we've got to spend billions to clean everything up (in the Gulf).
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Large contractors give lots of money to these members of Congress. They always have. That's the way things are done.
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It's easy to spend taxpayers' money without a lot of accountability,
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Despite a record $427 billion deficit predicted for fiscal 2005, members of Congress are engaging in the worst form of blatant self-interest; larding the budget with pork for home districts and states.
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The bipartisan campaign to sabotage BRAC was about putting special interests before the national interest. Sen. Chambliss helped rescue a process that will save taxpayers billions of dollars and will allow the military to restructure to meet modern threats.
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Their tax dollars are getting flushed down the drain here in Washington.
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They just realized that they just did not have the room within the budget. They needed close to $1 billion for various programs, and they just didn't have it without taking the projects out. But whether this is a trend or a one-year aberration remains to be seen.
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Cutting waste is a politically difficult task because almost every program has an active constituency that profits from the status quo, ... But Sen. Chambliss recognizes that the federal government must set priorities. He has taken a long- term view of the nation's fiscal problems and makes a serious effort to tackle the enormous debt being left to future generations.
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Eleven years ago we never expected this would be the case. Many people now long for a divided government because that may be what it takes to get more responsibility,