CCAGW Condemns WRDA Veto Override

CAGW* | December 11, 2007

Congress this month ignored a call from CCAGW and other fiscally conservative groups to uphold President Bush’s veto of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2007. The $4.9 billion authorization bill swelled to a grossly inflated $23 billion in the hands of pork-barreling lawmakers, who loaded it with 450 pet projects. “We hope that taxpayers are paying close attention. Once again Congress is using legislation to spend money like drunken sailors,” said CCAGW President Tom Schatz. “The distribution of earmarks in WRDA bears little relation to national priorities. Instead, this behemoth represents the triumph of raw political power, seniority, and petty brinksmanship over the best interests of the taxpayers and fiscal sanity. If this Congress wanted to demonstrate its commitment to fiscal prudence and rational governance, it would have sustained the President’s veto.” Read more about the WRDA.

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