CAGW RE-LAUNCHES WEB SITE | Citizens Against Government Waste

CAGW RE-LAUNCHES WEB SITE

Press Release

For Immediate ReleaseContact: Sean Rushton or Philippa Jeffery
December 20, 2001(202) 467-5300

 

New site (www.cagw.org) more user-friendly, contains more info.

Washington, D.C. - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) , America’s largest taxpayer watchdog group, today announced its newly renovated website at: http://www.cagw.org.  The site will feature:

NEW

  • The Waste Wire - weekly summary of government waste news stories and reports from around the nation.
  • Notable Quotables - list of outrageous quotations on spending from Washington's porkiest politicians.
  • Byrd Droppings - chronicles the wacky words and waste of Congress's "King of Pork."
  • Government Waste Watch - quarterly newspaper, available in PDF format on the web for the first time.
  • WasteWatcher - monthly newsletter, also now available in PDF.
  • Op-ed columns - new space for op-ed columns, regularly updated.
  • Interactive feature to vote on Porker of the Year.

IMPROVED

  • Up-to-the-minute press releases, policy analyses, and research statements.
  • Pork Alerts, with latest citings of pork projects in appropriations bills.
  • Prime Cuts catalog, with searchable database.
  • Pig Book, also with searchable database.
  • Porker of the Month.
  • Through the Looking Glass policy reports.
  • Greater ease for grassroots activists to write to Congress and track specific waste issues.

"For months we've been planning the website's overhaul to make CAGW's information more accessible, up-to-date, comprehensive, easier to search, and user-friendly," CAGW President Tom Schatz said.  "Our hope is activists, journalists, and concerned citizens will check it frequently to keep on top of the manifold ways government misspends our dollars.  We've put in a lot of effort and expect cagw.org will be a valuable new weapon in the fight against wasteful government." 

Citizens Against Government Waste is the nation’s largest taxpayer advocacy group with over one million members and supporters nationwide.  It is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, mismanagement and abuse in government.