Article: Poll finds vast majority of Americans support cutting government waste to reduce the deficit.

Article: Pay for drug war by cutting government ...
PR Newswire;  September 5, 1989 ;     700+ words ...PAY FOR DRUG WAR BY CUTTING GOVERNMENT WASTE, SAYS KEYES WASHINGTON ... president of Citizens Against Government Waste, today urged the Bush administration ... Tuesday. "Citizens Against Government Waste identified on May 3rd a series ...

Article: REP. SMITH: CUTTING GOVERNMENT WASTE
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 4, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas (21st CD), issued the following column: Cutting Government Waste Texas is one of a few states that have a "sunset commission" that helps identify wasteful government spending. Created in the ...

Article: Minnesota GOP: Washington Walz Votes Against Cutting ...
Targeted News Service;  April 3, 2008 ;     352 words ... ... Party of Minnesota Chairman Ron Carey today issued the following statement regarding Tim Walz's vote against cutting government waste. "Tim Walz's opposition to common sense earmark reform again demonstrates how out of touch he is with southern ...

Article: Cutting government waste and fraud is a tall ...
AP Online;  February 26, 2009 ;     700+ words ...As President Barack Obama pledged Thursday to curb waste and fraud in federal spending, a top government watchdog gave members of Congress a sense of how hard the job will be. The Defense Department spends more each year than any other federal agency on contracts _ $390 billion in 2008 alone _ yet

Article: Cutting Government Waste
The Washington Post;  February 1, 1993 ;     543 words ...In his Jan. 13 op-ed column "To Slim Down the Federal Goliath," David Broder discussed the problem of "wasteful spending and excessive staffing." He discussed actions by management (top management, of course) to combat it. In my 47 years of federal service, I have seen many (and been a part of

Article: `Cutting Government Waste' (Cont'd)
The Washington Post;  February 18, 1993 ;     359 words ...William Price {letters, Feb. 1} raises an intuitively attractive idea for government action: Provide incentives for saving money instead of spending money. He suggests paying 10 percent of money not spent to the "saver." There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, that in the 1970s the Civil Service

Article: STATE REP. WOLLSCHLAGER PRAISES LEGISLATION CUTTING ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 20, 2007 ;     518 words ...Minnesota State Rep. Sandy Wollschlager, DFL-District 28A, issued the following news release: During this week's marathon budget debate, the Minnesota House overwhelmingly passed measures to make Government more efficient. Early this week, the House unanimously passed legislation this week