From Citizens Against Government Waste For Immediate Release November 15, 2007 Contact: Leslie K. Paige 202-467-5334 Alexa Moutevelis 202-467-5318 Washington, D.C. – Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) November 2007 Porker of the Month for airdropping a $3 million earmark for the First Tee golf program into the fiscal 2008 [...]

From CAGW For Immediate Release October 31, 2007 Contact: Leslie K. Paige 202-467-5334 Alexa Moutevelis 202-467-5318 By John E. Frydenlund Director, Center for International Food and Agriculture Policy Congress will be sending the wrong message to American taxpayers and the rest of the world if the Senate agrees to the House-passed Farm Bill, H.R. 2419. [...]

For Immediate Release October 19, 2007 Contact: Leslie K. Paige 202-467-5334 Alexa Moutevelis 202-467-5318 Washington, D.C. – The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) today celebrated Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R-Okla.) successful removal of a $1 million wasteful earmark in H.R. 3043, the fiscal 2008 Labor-HHS-Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Act. Sen. Coburn’s amendment eliminated [...]

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 By: Tom Schatz Letter to Senate Dear Senator, This week you are considering H.R. 3043, the fiscal 2008 Labor-HHS-Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Act. Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) will offer S. Amdt. 3320 that will eliminate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Entertainment Education program. [...]

For Immediate Release October 18, 2007 Contact: Leslie K. Paige 202-467-5334 Alexa Moutevelis 202-467-5318 Washington, D.C. – Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) Porker of the Month for October 2007 for an $11 million Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) earmark for his alma mater. Sen. Shelby’s project was the [...]

Taxpayers Seeking Accountability to Murtha: “[Expletive] Off” Washington, D.C. – The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) today slammed Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) and his colleagues for purposefully putting up roadblocks and barriers to hinder earmark accountability and reform. According to Congressional Quarterly Weekly, Rep. Murtha’s response to a reporter’s inquiry regarding the difficulty [...]

Dear FCC Chairman & Commissioners: Our organizations share the common belief in a competitive and less onerous tax structure, fewer regulations and the power of free markets. Today we write to express deep concern over what we fear is a re-regulatory direction being taken at the FCC in the broadband enterprise marketplace, including Special Access [...]

Chart: See what the national debt means to you In a flurry of business to close out the fiscal year, Congress raised the debt limit by $850 billion to $9.815 trillion. Without this move, the federal government’s credit card would have maxed out on October 1 with an outstanding balance of $9 trillion. This staggering [...]

Washington, D.C. – Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) and the Tennessee Center for Policy Research (TCPR) today criticized the Tennessee state government for beginning a cigarette surveillance program to enforce a new cigarette tax. The state increased taxes on cigarettes by 42 cents to a total of 62 cents per pack on July 1, 2007 [...]

CAGW Irate Over Democratic Leadership’s Cynical Shell Game at Taxpayers’ Expense Washington, D.C. – Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today blasted the Senate leadership for its recent furtive attempts to roll back and undermine the earmark transparency and accountability provisions of S. 1, the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007, which was signed [...]