Cspan radio app. Earmarks and what is going on with them this morning. Joining us is tom schatz, president of citizens against government waste and he will talk about the 2020 government pig book. Good morning. Guest good morning. Host can you tell us exactly what citizens against government waste is and where you get your funding . Guest citizens against government waste was created in 1984 following the release of the report under praise that in reagan. President citizens against government waste has been issuing the pig 1991, porkbarrel spending or earmarks, so we are funded by the taxpayers. The paper came about in 1991. We worked with the pork busters coalition and created a seven point criteria for determining what would be an earmark or porkbarrel project in the appropriations bill. This year, we have had 15. 9 billion which is up by almost 4 from the prior year. This is going on, by the way, even what Congress Claims is an earmark moratorium. Before we get into what you found,
President of citizens against government waste and he will talk about the 2020 government pig book. Good morning. Guest good morning. Host can you tell us exactly what citizens against government waste is and where you get your funding . Guest citizens against government waste was created in 1984 following the release of the report under praise that in reagan. President citizens against government waste has been issuing the pig 1991, porkbarrel spending or earmarks, so we are funded by the taxpayers. The paper came about in 1991. We worked with the pork busters coalition and created a seven point criteria for determining what would be an earmark or porkbarrel project in the appropriations bill. This year, we have had 15. 9 billion which is up by almost 4 from the prior year. This is going on, by the way, even what Congress Claims is an earmark moratorium. Before we get into what you found, can you define what you are calling an earmark . Guest the seven point criteria includes whether
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Blue argent to lower the cost of safety. Nd increase he purchased the Washington Post. I met with him earlier today at the Economic Club in new york. Here is that conversation. What is it that amazon wants to be . There are a couple of answers to that. Probably the biggest one, perhaps the best way to answer that question is that the thing that connects everything that oneon does is our number conviction and idea and philosophy and principle which is Customer Obsession as opposed to competitor obsession. And so, we are always focused on the customer working backwards from the customers needs and developing new skills internally so we can satisfy what we perceive to be future customer needs. We have a whole working backwards process that starts with the customer needs and works backwards. That is really it seems like we are in a bunch of different businesses. We have Amazon Web Services just completely different from our amazon prime business or Amazon Marketplace or Amazon Studios and