(Washington, D.C.) – Today in the nation’s capital, America’s premier waste watchdog released its August WasteWatcher articles on government waste:

The Devil is in the Details of the Healthcare Bills, Or Not

By Leslie Paige

As congressional town hall meetings have erupted in anger and frustration in opposition to the healthcare proposals, a favorite theme in the President’s and his allies’ speeches is that Americans have been manipulated and exploited by opponents of his healthcare initiatives who are peddling falsehoods about the bills…

Let the Sun Shine In on How the Government Spends Your Money

By Hon. Cathy McMorris Rodgers

As the nation marked the six-month anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), or the stimulus law, and as a representative of the people of Eastern Washington and a member of the House Republican leadership, I wanted to know where the money went.  It wasn’t easy to find out, but I have put together a website that makes the answers easily accessible to anyone with an internet connection…

Salvage the Good from the Healthcare Debacle

By Thomas A. Schatz and Orson Swindle

Tucked away among the alarming provisions and exorbitant costs in the monstrous Obama-Kennedy-Dodd-Pelosi-Reid legislative healthcare morass is an important healthcare matter that everyone agrees would reduce healthcare costs…

OMB Plays Three Card Monte with Deficit Numbers

By Roger Morse, Visiting Fellow

As a rite of August when the nation’s capital moves slowly, official Washington plays an interesting game known as the Mid-Session Budget Review and both the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) take part...

“Cash for Clunkers” Comes to a Screeching Halt

By Erica Gordon

This past June, Congress added $1 billion to the 2009 Supplemental Appropriations Act for the “Consumers Assistance to Recycle and Save Act of 2009”…

Public Outrage Grounds Congressional Jets

By David Williams

In 2005, Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) tried to fund the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere.”  It quickly became the “poster child” for pork and after taxpayers expressed their disdain, funding for the “Bridge to Nowhere” was eliminated…

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