Tom Schatz
Tom Schatz
allow billions bipartisan campaign dollars helped interest interests meet military modern national process putting rescue sabotage save special taxpayers
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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The budget process is in shambles, devoid of accountability, transparency and enforcement measures. While most representatives shrugged their shoulders at this dire situation, Rep. Coble voted for seven budget reform amendments and bills rated by CCAGW.
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The budget process is in shambles, devoid of accountability, transparency, and enforcement measures, ... A vote for the status quo is a clear sign of contentment with the spending explosion in Washington.
add budget check element leaders move process quickly reform spending tainted veto
The line-item veto is just one element in earmark reform, and earmark reform is just one element in spending restraint. However, the line-item veto would add an important check to a budget process that is tainted by waste, abuse, and favoritism. Congressional leaders should move quickly on this proposal.
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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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Their tax dollars are getting flushed down the drain here in Washington.