CAGW PRAISES (FRED) THOMPSON REPORT ON FEDERAL MISMANAGEMENT (2001 Article)

Citizens Against Government Waste ^

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CAGW PRAISES THOMPSON REPORT ON FEDERAL MISMANAGEMENT

Washington, D.C. - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today commended U.S. Senator Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.), the outgoing chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, for a report released today documenting the federal government's staggering levels of waste, abuse, and mismanagement. Thompson presented the report, which includes his recommendations for addressing those problems, to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mitch Daniels at a press conference in Washington.

"Once again, Chairman Thompson deserves great credit for exposing the pervasive problems in the federal government," CAGW President Tom Schatz said. "As CAGW has documented repeatedly, many federal agencies and programs are duplicative, unaccountable, nontransparent, get poor results, lose money, are mismanaged, and outdated. These problems have persisted for decades, and as this report indicates, are growing worse and require rapid action."

Thompson's report includes analysis of the four biggest challenges facing the federal government: workforce management, financial management, information technology management, and overlap and duplication. In addition, the report includes an agency-by-agency appendix citing examples of waste, fraud, and abuse. The report also contains a list of the "Top Ten" worst examples of mismanagement in the government.

"As CAGW has documented for 17 years, every year the federal government literally flushes hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars down the drain," Schatz added. "It is a disgrace and would be intolerable in any sphere outside government. Hopefully, the new Democrat majority in the Senate will follow Thompson's lead to root out waste and work with President Bush for reform."

"OMB Director Daniels deserves thanks from taxpayers for remaining focused on a common-sense waste-cutting agenda, and this report will help him target some of the worst bloat for elimination," Schatz concluded. "CAGW continues to recommend the White House empanel a nonpartisan waste commission for a stem to stern audit of the government. This is the surest way to achieve fundamental and lasting reform."

CAGW is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse in government.

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Old article but a good reflection on Thompson's leadership.

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Question, if you know and if not don’t bother to look it up as I will later... I’m using an old computer with a hard drive that is about to crater and get sent to the trash pile so I don’t want to spend the time staring a blank screen while it’s bouncing around.

Do you know if the CAGW website provides the data in a searchable format for a specific member of Congress? If so what format is it compiled in, pdf, spreadsheet, etc., if you know. Remember don’t go digging around as I can when do that when I get on the laptop.

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Yes it does, each year they have congressional rankings mostly based on if they disclosed or not and if they voted yea or nay on pork bills. I don’t see separate rankings based on how much they submit.

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When you are on a better computer, here is a link.
http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_main

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Thanks good to see a report as old as 2001 with Fred trying to cut the dead weight out of our government. Not many addressed his remarks about the NEA durting the Des Moine Iowa debate (no surprise there). To me that says they have no problem with that waste of money and detriment to our schools.

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thanks....... and bump for the thread