Download or read book Porkbusters in Congress written by Gregory Lowell Bovitz and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pig Book written by Citizens Against Government Waste and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of: - $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa - $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil - $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri - $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!) - $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California - $1 million for ornamental fish research Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, The Pig Book proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king!
Download or read book Why Did Republican Porkbusters Fail in the 104th Congress written by Gregory Lowell Bovitz and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why Congressional Reforms Fail written by E. Scott Adler and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-06-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, advocates of congressional reforms have repeatedly attempted to clean up the House committee system, which has been called inefficient, outmoded, unaccountable, and even corrupt. Yet these efforts result in little if any change, as members of Congress who are generally satisfied with existing institutions repeatedly obstruct what could fairly be called innocuous reforms. What lies behind the House's resistance to change? Challenging recent explanations of this phenomenon, Scott Adler contends that legislators resist rearranging committee powers and jurisdictions for the same reason they cling to the current House structure—the ambition for reelection. The system's structure works to the members' advantage, helping them obtain funding (and favor) in their districts. Using extensive evidence from three major reform periods—the 1940s, 1970s, and 1990s—Adler shows that the reelection motive is still the most important underlying factor in determining the outcome of committee reforms, and he explains why committee reform in the House has never succeeded and probably never will.
Download or read book Downsizing Government and Setting Priorities of Federal Programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Downsizing Government and Setting Priorities of Federal Programs Agriculture Rural Development Food and Drug Administration and related agencies written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Downsizing Government and Setting Priorities of Federal Programs Departments of Labor Health and Human Services Education and related agencies legislative branch written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Downsizing Government and Setting Priorities of Federal Programs Department of Transportation and related agencies written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Greasing the Wheels written by Diana Evans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines pork barrel projects and their relation to broad-based national legislation.
Download or read book Open Days for Members and Outside Groups written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wastrels of Defense written by Winslow Wheeler and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this damning expose, a veteran senate defense advisor argues that since Sept 11, 2001, the conduct of the U.S. Congress has sunk to new depths and endangered the nation's security. Winslow Wheeler draws on three decades of work with four prominent senators to tell in lively detail how members of Congress divert money from essential war-fighting accounts to pay for pork in their home states, cook the budget books to pursue personal agendas, and run for cover when confronted with tough defense issues. With meticulous documentation to support his claims, he contends that this behavior is not confined to one party or one political philosophy. He further contends that senators who sell themselves as reformers and journalists covering Capitol Hill are simply not doing their jobs. Pork is far from a new phenomenon in Washington, yet most Americans fail to understand its serious consequences. Wheeler knows the harm it does and challenges citizens to take action against lawmakers pretending to serve the public trust while sending home the bacon. Dubbed a "Hill Deep Throat" who participated in the game he now criticizes, he fills his book with evidence of Congressional wrongdoing, naming names and citing specific examples. Pointing to the extremes that have become routine in the legislative process, he focuses on defense appropriations and Congress's willingness to load down defense bills with pork, in some cases with the Pentagon's help. On the question of deciding war, he accuses today's members of Congress of lacking the character of their predecessors, often positioning themselves on both sides of the question of war against Iraq without probing the administration's justifications. Wheeler concludes with a model for reform that he calls twelve not-so-easy steps to a sober Congress.
Download or read book Wayne Law Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congressional Reform written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congress and Other Cesspools written by Rodney Stich and published by Silverpeak Enterprises. This book was released on 2008-09-05 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congress and other cesspools is a detailed history of fraud and corruption involving members of Congress and other government and non-government entities, primarily as it involves financial frauds upon the American people.
Download or read book Treasury Postal Service and General Government Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1996 Testimony of members of Congress and other interested individuals and organizations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lockbox Deficit Reduction Proposals written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congressional Yellow Book written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
