{"id":1002,"date":"2009-09-30T13:17:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T17:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2009-09-30T13:17:13","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T17:17:13","slug":"congress-to-increase-spending-on-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1002\/congress-to-increase-spending-on-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress to Increase Spending &#8230; On Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In these tough economic times, most American families have been forced to\u00a0tighten\u00a0belts and pinch pennies to make ends meet.\u00a0 And with rising deficits and an exploding national debt,\u00a0we would expect our lawmakers in Washington to do the same when it comes to spending our tax dollars.\u00a0\u00a0That is, if Americans didn&#8217;t know any better.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nu Raju of Politico.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0909\/27732.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under a House-Senate conference measure, approved by the House last week and poised for passage in the Senate on Wednesday, spending for the legislative branch will increase 5.8 percent this year, boosting Capitol Hill\u2019s annual budget to $4.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The measure includes a hodgepodge of new funding for lawmakers: a $500,000 pilot program for senators to send out postcards about their town hall meetings, $30,000 for receptions for foreign dignitaries and $4 million for consultants&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The measure also includes a 128% increase in funding for House office buildings and\u00a0a 155% spending increase for the Government Printing Office\u2019s revolving fund, among other goodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In these tough economic times, most American families have been forced to\u00a0tighten\u00a0belts and pinch pennies to make ends meet.\u00a0 And with rising deficits and an exploding national debt,\u00a0we would expect our lawmakers in Washington to do the same when it comes to spending our tax dollars.\u00a0\u00a0That is, if Americans didn&#8217;t know any better.\u00a0 Nu Raju [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,84,219],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-budget","tag-congress","tag-spedning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}