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By Mike Conaway On May 8th, 2010, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates delivered a speech at the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas, in which he stated: “The attacks of September 11th, 2001, opened a gusher of defense spending that nearly doubled the base budget over the last decade, not counting supplemental appropriations for the wars [...]

By Associated Press Thursday, May 13, 2010; A11 The Treasury Department said Wednesday that the federal deficit for April soared to $82.7 billion, the largest imbalance for that month on record. That was significantly higher than last year’s April deficit of $20 billion and above the $30 billion deficit that private-sector economists had expected. The [...]

Mike discusses his bipartisan legislation to cut waste in defense spending and require audits of the federal government. Democrats may not pass budget this year.

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Reuters By Jim Wolf WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bill designed to reward success and punish failure in managing hundreds of billions of dollars of Pentagon spending has been introduced by leaders of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee. The bipartisan measure rolled out Wednesday would boost the use of incentives to pull the Defense [...]

Politico House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is unsure whether Congress will pass a budget this year, acknowledging that it’s difficult to pass large, complex spending resolutions in the House during election years. The Maryland Democrat said he and Budget committee Chairman John Spratt (D-S.C.) “both believe that it would be important” to pass a budget [...]

Washington Times By: David M. Dickson President Obama’s fiscal 2011 budget will generate nearly $10 trillion in cumulative budget deficits over the next 10 years, $1.2 trillion more than the administration projected, and raise the federal debt to 90 percent of the nation’s economic output by 2020, the Congressional Budget Office reported Thursday. In its [...]

Congressman Mike Conaway today was awarded for his outstanding pro-taxpayer voting record last year. The 362,000-member National Taxpayers Union (NTU), a nonpartisan citizen group, has announced that Conaway is among only a few dozen 2009 “Taxpayers’ Friend Award” recipients out of the entire House of Representatives and Senate. “Given today’s economic climate, fiscal discipline is [...]

Watch Mike discuss his amendment to the National Intelligence Authorization Act to audit the Intelligence agencies.  He’s on a mission to audit huge sectors of the federal government. Mike on a Mission to Audit

This week the House faces a busy schedule to address several looming deadlines. On Thursday the House will begin consideration of Rep. Barney Frank’s Make Bailouts Permanent bill, a bill that seeks to overhaul the financial service sector with new government regulations and mandates. Also on the floor this week is an extension of several [...]

Today, the Subcommittee on Rural Development, Biotechnology, Specialty Crops, and Foreign Agriculture, held a hearing to review broadband funding enacted by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The Subcommittee heard testimony from officials representing the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Commerce. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided the USDA’s Rural [...]