Tom Schatz
Tom Schatz
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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.
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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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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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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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would mandate that state agencies use only open formats for the storage of documents by January 1, 2007.
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Given the current circumstances, whoever becomes majority leader will have to be careful about appearing to do something special for their friends or district.
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We cover a lot of ground. Hey, that's the way Washington works, right?
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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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Most people don't travel first class, and when they see the government abusing that privilege it certainly raises questions about government waste in Washington.
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Pork-barrel spending illustrates and contributes to the meltdown of spending restraint in Washington.
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These 'nowhere' things are starting to gather some cachet in that they are drawing the public's attention to the problem of pork.