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Take Action: Demand EPA Honesty on Environmental Aftermath from Hurricane Katrina
Monday, October 03, 2005
Time to... NOT Invest in America?
Business as usual after Hurricane Katrina? The tragedy of Katrina revealed the consequences of failing to invest in what it takes to keep America safe. The anti-government agenda hasn't gotten the message: a subcommittee of the House Government Reform Committee held a hearing last week on a White House proposal to force agencies to stop their work every 10 years and spend precious resources on justifying the need for their continued existence. Unless Congress affirmatively acts to save them, programs would automatically die. In other words, despite the obvious need for investments that keep America safe, some congressional conservatives are pushing a disinvestment strategy.
Related to the sunset proposal is a proposal to give the White House sweeping powers to reorganize government and force reorganization proposals through Congress on a fast-track, take-it-or-leave-it basis. Of course, as we saw with FEMA's reorganization inside Homeland Security, reorganization is not a merely technical issue: it can have real consequences.
OMB Watch testified at the hearing:
> >Read the press release
> >Download the testimony
Posted by Robert Shull
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