President Obama wants to add yet another czar, a Health Choices Commision czar this time, to the growing list of these unelected officials that are handpicked by the President and go through absolutely no confirmation process. A Virginia paper recently asked, " how many czars can fit into the West...
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I've been writing a lot about transparency recently, demanding accountability from the President's administration when it comes to the allocation of stimulus funds, demanding accountability for Congress's exp ense accounts, and demanding accountability from the policy-makers behind the health...
Last week it was revealed tha t $120,000 in federal stimulus money, originally intended to help clean up Ononadaga Lake in Central New York and rebuild local infrastructure, would actually be used to pay for the printing of a pamphlet about the lake cleanup -- and the pamphlet wasn't going to be...
When the stimulus bill (also known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) finally passed, President Obama promised more transparency and accountability with this $787 billion piece of legislation than with any other appropriation in history. Since that time, we've heard stories of dead people...
It's easy to knock the earmark process when citing examples like $1.9 million for the Pleasure Beach water taxi service in Connecticut or $1.8 million for swine odor and manure management research in Ames, Iowa. But when it comes to defense earmarks meant to protect our men and women in battle, it...
"Transparent government is good government, and good government has nothing to hide from the taxpayers who fund it." So said Joe Calomino , Illinois State Director for Americans for Prosperity, in response to the Illinois legislature passing House Bill 35 last week, also known as the Illinois...