41 Quotes by Tom Schatz

Until Congress sets priorities and restrains overall spending, members will continue to get failed ratings for protecting the interests of taxpayers,

would mandate that state agencies use only open formats for the storage of documents by January 1, 2007.

Most people don't travel first class, and when they see the government abusing that privilege it certainly raises questions about government waste in Washington.

Pork-barrel spending illustrates and contributes to the meltdown of spending restraint in Washington.

Given the current circumstances, whoever becomes majority leader will have to be careful about appearing to do something special for their friends or district.

It is bad procurement policy for any state to unilaterally lock itself into one set of technologies.

Large contractors give lots of money to these members of Congress. They always have. That's the way things are done.

Our point is simple. These projects were wasteful before, and they only seem more wasteful because we have a real emergency,

I would like to once again ask members of Congress to take a good hard look in the mirror and ask themselves whether their parochial pork projects are really more important than our national and fiscal security.