Tom Schatz
Tom Schatz
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Members of Congress are well aware that we are about to face massive debts and deficits, and we're spending for an entrance to a museum? It's just not a national priority under any circumstance, and less so when we've got to spend billions to clean everything up (in the Gulf).
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Everyone's opening up their wallets to help (Katrina's victims) -- except members of Congress, who are opening up our wallets.
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Until Congress sets priorities and restrains overall spending, members will continue to get failed ratings for protecting the interests of taxpayers,
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In the past, some members of Congress have short-changed troops, disaster victims, and taxpayers by including self-serving pork projects in emergency spending bills,
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In 2004, Congress wasted tax dollars like never before. Very few members of Congress are working to ease the tax and regulatory burden of a cumbersome, bloated federal government,
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Despite a record $427 billion deficit predicted for fiscal 2005, members of Congress are engaging in the worst form of blatant self-interest; larding the budget with pork for home districts and states.
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Large contractors give lots of money to these members of Congress. They always have. That's the way things are done.
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I would like to once again ask members of Congress to take a good hard look in the mirror and ask themselves whether their parochial pork projects are really more important than our national and fiscal security.
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It is bad procurement policy for any state to unilaterally lock itself into one set of technologies.
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Unfortunately disasters become an excuse for excessive spending. When it's within the region, people try to add these projects on.
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With a line-item veto, the president could help get special-interest and pork-barrel spending under control. Coming on the heels of last year's record pork-barrel spending, this proposal could not be more timely.
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With all the special interests in Washington clamoring for handouts from a spendthrift Congress, the fight against big government is an uphill battle. Thanks to people like Sen. Chambliss, taxpayers have a fighting chance and will continue to score victories,
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The proposed shift in software will be paid for by the taxpayers, businesses, and regular citizens of Massachusetts,
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The Deficit Reduction Act is a modest step to control spending. There is nothing compassionate about ignoring reality and leaving a crushing debt burden to future generations.