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Porkbarrel: The Unexpurgated Grace Commission Story of Congressional Profligacy
By Randall Fitzgerald and Gerald Lipson
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When the Grace Commission on government waste issued its final report, it accused Congress of blocking attempts to cut billions of dollars from federal spending. Members of Congress, it said, tried to bring water projects and military bases to their districts and keep them there when they weren't needed. In addition, it charged Congress with interfering in administrative decisions on pay scales and employee reorganization. But the Grace Commission lost its nerve and published its final volume with all the names deleted. Now the complete, unexpurgated report is available in this volume -- containing every name in the original report along with a new introduction by the authors. Pork-barreling respects no partisan or ideological boundaries. The members of Congress cited in this book range from big spenders to fiscal conservatives. If you want to know what your congressman is really doing about waste in government -- and what we can do about it -- you need to read this book.
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Randall Fitzgerald
Randall Fitzgerald is the author of six previous books on a wide variety of subjects, including When Government Goes Private: Successful Alternatives to Public Services (Universe Books, 1988) and Porkbarrel: The Unexpurgated Grace Commission Story of Congressional Profligacy (Cato Institute, 1984). He spent two decades as a contributing writer with Reader's Digest and has written for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.
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