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CAGW's Blog
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BE-ANGRY
August, 2007
A Monthly Dispatch from Citizens Against Government Waste
The Senate's New Unethical Ethics Bill
by: Jay Boresi & Dashle Gunn Kelley
"Members of Congress have reproductive organs the size of BBs," said Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) in challenging his colleagues to enact real earmark reform. Alas, Sen. Coburn was proven correct as the Senate voted 83-14 to approve S. 1, misnamed "the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act."
Rep. Boyda Imprisons Taxpayer Funds for Museum
by: Alexa Moutevelis
Rep. Nancy Boyda (D-Kansas) deserves to "do some time" for her theft from the taxpayers of $100,000 for an egregious earmark she added to the 2008 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act. The Kansas Regional Prisons Museum is set to receive the money to establish a site dedicated to the state's historical and infamous penitentiaries and prisoners.
Davis-Bacon for Ethanol Plants: New Ways to Waste Money
by: Terrence C. Watson
The federal government's subsidization of the ethanol industry needlessly depletes the U.S. Treasury. As if that alone were not enough to upset taxpayers, H.R. 2419, the Farm Bill Extension Act, will only make an already egregious waste of money worse by making it even more expensive to build new ethanol plants.
"Nutty" Earmark Rejected By Florida County
by: David Williams
Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't. In the case of Coconut Road in Florida, even though a member of Congress felt like wasting taxpayer dollars on a highway interchange project at Coconut Road and I-75, taxpayers in Lee County, Florida did not want it and the Lee County Metropolitan Planning Commission eventually voted against it.
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