GAO
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Budgets/TaxesGovernmentPolitics
Government Duplicates When It’s Stupid – And Doesn’t When It’s A National Security Imperative
by Seton Motley May 31, 2018“We could say the government spends like drunken sailors – but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. Because the sailors are spending their own money.”
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Budgets/TaxesGovernment
Politically Opportunistic Attempts to Gut U.S. Shipping Laws Jeopardize National Security and the Economy
by William J. Murphy December 14, 2017New efforts to repeal the Jones Act could put national security in jeopardy.
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A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office revealed several disturbing, interrelated trends in U.S. public education.
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The teachers unions’ cruel streak is helping no one.
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A new report published by the Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan federal government agency, estimates a bill awaiting a vote in the U.S. Senate, the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act (SRCA), would reduce federal spending by $722 million over the next 10 years. SRCA, sponsored by Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Richard Durbin, D-Illinois, would revise federally mandated minimum sentences for individuals convicted of some non-violent federal crimes.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Government Tech Waste Illustrates Disrespect for Taxpayers
by Jesse Hathaway June 6, 2016A recent report published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) — a nonpartisan government agency providing auditing, evaluation, and investigative services for Congress — found federal agencies, such as the U.S. Department of the Treasury, are spending increasingly large amounts of taxpayer money maintaining information technology (IT) computer systems from the 1950s and 1960s.