WASHINGTON -- In the wake of a news report by The Hill's Roxana Tiron indicating that conferees for the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2010 intend to thwart the will of the Senate, President Obama, and a phalanx of Pentagon officials by adding a $560 million earmark to fund the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) alternate engine, the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) called upon the President to prepare to veto any bill that contains the funding.
WASHINGTON -- On Thursday, September 24, 2009, The Maine Heritage Policy Center and Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) will jointly release the 2009 Maine Piglet Report: The Book Augusta Doesn't Want You to Read, focusing on government waste, fraud, and abuse in the Maine state budget.
Williams Vice President, Policy, Citizens Against Government Waste and Jim Harper Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute The introduction of a bill called the PASS ID Act in the Senate has renewed the debate about whether the United States should have a national ID.
WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday, March 11, 2009 the Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions and Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) will jointly release the 2009 Ohio Piglet Book focusing on government waste, fraud, and abuse in the Ohio state budget.
Schatz released the following statement today: "Beginning on Tuesday, February 17, 2009, the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) launched an advertising campaign opposing the use of any of the so-called economic stimulus money for the construction of the O'Hare Modernization Program (OMP).
WASHINGTON -- The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) and National Taxpayers Union will hold a press conference tomorrow, Thursday, February 12, 2009 at the National Press Club to urge members of Congress to take this last opportunity to vote FOR the taxpayers and AGAINST the bloated, wasteful "stimulus" package, and to immediately embark on a new congressional war on wasteful spending on behalf of taxpayers.
