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Maxine Waters Investigation: Top 3 Most Intriguing Subplots

(Aug. 9) -- On Monday, the House ethics committee detailed its allegations of misconduct by California Rep. Maxine Waters in a 10-page "statement of alleged violation." While the general substance of the report was already laid forth to the public a week ago -- namely, that Waters had helped procure just over $12 million...

What Congress Bought Itself With Your $1 Billion

(July 21) -- Congress requires a lot of stuff to keep itself running. Like coffee. And plane tickets. And student loan payments. That's the point underscored (and underscored again) by figures collated by the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit that uses technology to try to make government more transparent. In...

Opinion: Congress Vacations Like Drunken Sailors

(Dec. 16) -- When you're balancing dual careers and kids, it can be hard to find time for a mere date night, let alone spend any real time together. So my husband and I were thrilled when we got to sneak away for a week to Scotland this summer. We toured Edinburgh Castle, bought Scotch and ate at the nicest restaurants we...

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06/02/12 LTE: A waste of taxpayer money Source: Ravalli Republic - Hamilton MT Hire a company headquartered in Seattle, give them a year's time to complete this task and pay them $85,000 to come up with name changes for five Montana schools?
06/01/12 Saving taxpayers money Source: The Southern Reporter - Selkirk - UK Scottish Borders Council is prolonging the saga of its former chief executive David Hume with another statement that is meant to bring clarity to the proceedings â but only succeeding in making matters worse.
05/21/12 Squandering of taxpayers' money Source: Stabroek News - Guyana Earlier this month, the public became aware of a convoluted arrangement involving central government, the Guyana Revenue Authority and the National Insurance Scheme for the gigantic, ill-starred CLICO building on Camp Street.
05/19/12 $17 billion of taxpayer money Source: Advance Newspapers - Ann Arbor MI
08/22/10 Taxpayers' money Source: Asia News Network (ANN) When a state-owned corporation is in trouble, it is taxpayers that are called on to come to its rescue.