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Article: Citizens Against Government Waste Names Dick Gephardt August Porker Of The Month
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- U.S. Newswire
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- August 10, 2001
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- By Citizens Against
Government Waste's (CAGW) analysis, during the next five years the
U.S. government will flush at least $1.2 trillion down the drain in
uncorrected waste, fraud, and abuse. So, to tell the American
people that government can't pay its bills and has no choice but to
raise taxes -- during a near-recession no less -- takes real brass.
But that is just what House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt (D-
Mo.) recently did. For playing politics against the president's
barely-in-effect tax cut and defending the Washington waste status
quo, CAGW names Rep. Gephardt its Porker of the Month for August
2001.
While campaigning for a fellow House ...