{"id":456,"date":"2011-09-30T03:31:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T07:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=456"},"modified":"2011-09-30T03:34:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T07:34:07","slug":"gao-cuts-tom-coburn-hammers-senate-for-money-losing-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/09\/gao-cuts-tom-coburn-hammers-senate-for-money-losing-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"GAO Cuts: Tom Coburn Hammers Senate For Money-Losing Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/09\/28\/gao-cuts-tom-coburn_n_985557.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/r-TOM-COBURN-large570.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"114\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Huffington Post reported recently that the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for the Legislative Branch has drawn up plans to reduce the GAO budget by more than 7 percent, cutting more than $40 million even as it also proposed rules requiring the agency to do more paperwork.<\/p>\n<p>And yet the GAO saved the federal government about $43 billion in 2009. In a scathing op-ed on Wednesday, Coburn noted that Congress this year has failed to act on any of the watchdog&#8217;s recommendations to save $200 billion by targeting wasteful programs.<\/p>\n<p>The Oklahoma Republican suggested the budget-cutting &#8220;proposal looks like mismanagement at best and pay back at worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/09\/28\/gao-cuts-tom-coburn_n_985557.html\">GAO Cuts: Tom Coburn Hammers Senate For Money-Losing Proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The Huffington Post reported recently that the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for the Legislative Branch has drawn up plans to reduce the GAO budget by more than 7 percent, cutting more than $40 million even as it also proposed rules requiring the agency to do more paperwork. And yet the GAO saved the federal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,22],"tags":[24,147,70,255],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}