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
Following a commission on president reagan. Since then, we have been and covering and exposing uncovering and exposing government waste. Host how are you funded . Solely by individuals, companies, associations, no government monday. Host this conversation about earmarks is a response to a comment the president made. Our system lends itself to not getting things done. I hear so much about earmarks, the old earmark system, how there was a great friendliness that they had other problems with earmarks. Maybe all of you should start thinking back to going back to a form of earmarks. You should do it. I am there with you, because the system really lends itself to not getting along. It lends itself to hostility and anger and they hate the republicans or they hate the democrats, and in the old days of earmark, you could say what you want about certain president s where they all talk about they went out to dinner at night and they all got along and passed bills come a that was an earmark system
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Commit to a special interview with the special counsel. An interview his own lawyers had been preparing for. An interview you would think he has no reason to avoid if he did nothing wrong, but how trump did answer the question is worth hearing in detail. He denieded collusion with the russians eight times. Would you be willing to meet with him without condition . Again, john, there has been no collusion between the Trump Campaign and russians or trump and russians. No collusion. When i watch you interviewing all the people leaving their committees, the democrats are all running for office and theyre trying to say this, but bottom line, they say theres no collusion. And there is no collusion. But again, ill speak to attorneys. There was absolutely no collusion. Its a democrat hoax that was brought up as an excuse for losing an election that frankly the democrats should have won because they have such a tremendous advantage in the electoral college. So it was brought up for that reason,