WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named Rep. John Spratt (D-S.C.) Porker of the Month for working to thwart a budget reconciliation package that could save taxpayers $53.9 billion over five years. As ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, Rep. Spratt preaches fiscal restraint yet refuses to offer savings proposals and even held a mock hearing to misconstrue miniscule spending reductions as deep cuts. The House is scheduled to vote today on the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (H.R. 4241). The fiscal 2005 budget resolution (H. Con. Res. 95) instructed House authorizing committees to find $35 billion in savings over five years to slow the growth in mandatory spending, the first spending reconciliation to be considered by the Hous...
WASHINGTON, June 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named freshman Sen. John Thune (R- S.D.) Porker of the Month for doing everything short of writing to Santa Claus to derail the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process. Sen. Thune introduced legislation to delay BRAC indefinitely, threatened litigation against the Department of Defense (DOD), and may change his position on unrelated votes to "punish" the Bush administration, according to CAGW. South Dakota's Ellsworth Air Force Base is on the DOD's list of closings under review by the BRAC Commission. A May 13 Air Force press release stated: "The purpose of BRAC is to ... make the most efficient and effective use of all the DOD's resources and ... improve operational efficiency, save taxpayer's d...
To: National Desk Contact: Alexa Moutevelis, 202-467-5318 (daytime), or Tom Finnigan, 202-253-3852 (after hours), both of Citizens Against Government Waste
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) and Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Don Young (R-Alaska) Co-Porkers of the Month for their response to requests to offset the costs of Hurricane Katrina relief. According to a Sept. 14 Washington Times article, Rep. DeLay declared an "ongoing victory" in the effort to cut spending, and that the Republicans had "pared (the government) down pretty good." While claiming to be receptive to proposed offsets, DeLay said that "nobody has been able to come up with any yet." He added that cutting the 6,000 earmarks in the recently-passed $295 billion Transportation Equity Act - A Legacy for Users (TEA-LU) would adversely affect "important ...
To: State Desk, Environment Reporter Contact: Alexa Moutevelis 202-467-5318 or Tom Finnigan 202-253- 3852, both for Citizens Against Government Waste
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Citizens Against Government Waste today (CAGW) named Rep. Ray LaHood (R-Ill.) the October Porker of the Month for preaching fiscal restraint in hurricane relief spending while seeking to protect and expand pork and wasteful spending in his home district. Rep. LaHood favors coupling drought relief money for Illinois with hurricane relief measures, played a key role in blocking a plan to consolidate Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices, rejected calls to return federal funding for local highway projects, and attempted to kill the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process. Rep. LaHood has teamed up with other lawmakers to procure farm assistance money for Midwestern states, claiming that farmers should be compensated for disruptions to grain shipments...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today marked its second annual celebration of Festivus to acknowledge the disappointments and successes for taxpayers in 2005. In the sitcom Seinfeld, Festivus is a fictional holiday invented by Frank Costanza (George's father) to protest the commercialization of other December holidays. The Festivus dinner begins with the Airing of Grievances, where the celebrant tells family and friends all the ways they have disappointed him or her over the past year. Similarly, CAGW will now tell politicians all they ways they have disappointed taxpayers over the past year. Festivus is not considered over until the head of the family has been pinned by another participant in the Feats of Strength. Likewise, CAGW wil...
To: City Desk Contact: Alexa Moutevelis 202-467-5318, or Tom Finnigan (after hours), 202-253-3852, both for Citizens Against Government Waste
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