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- iHaveNet.com: Politics
by Ryan Alexander
Each year, Congress passes reams of spending bills that are thousands of pages long
Ryan Alexander is the president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, which works to end wasteful spending.
Each year,
There is now a proposal before
Under the proposal, the president would have 45 calendar days after signing a bill to send
Currently, it is difficult to cut unnecessary spending, as few members of
Obama's proposal would increase the transparency and accountability of the budgeting process by giving the public more information about where their elected representatives stand on specific requests that are often buried in bills. It would also provide an opportunity for the administration and
One of the usual criticisms of expedited rescission authority is that it will be wielded in a partisan manner by the president. This is a red herring: Public scrutiny and oversight would render partisan maneuvering unlikely. The bill would require all the information on the proposed rescission to be made public. If the president is using this budgetary tool simply to score political points,
We found 9,499 congressional earmarks, worth
Read why a line-item veto is a bad idea, by Norman Ornstein, a congressional expert and resident scholar at the
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