HOUSE Key Vote Alert - Defense Spending Report Card Act
"YES" on the Defense Spending Report Card Act
(H.R. 6375)
The Club for Growth, with its 40,000 members, plans to score a “YES” vote on the Defense Spending Report Card Act (H.R. 6375) as a pro-economic growth vote in our annual rating of Congress.
According to a nearly identical bill that passed the Senate on two separate occasions earlier this year, this bill would simply require the Secretary of Defense to describe, assess, and grade each congressional initiative made available to the Department of Defense for the previous fiscal year.
In other words, this bill is a good governance proposal that would bring much needed transparency and accountability to how taxpayers’ money is being spent on defense.
According to Citizens Against Government Waste, the FY07 defense appropriations bill contained at least 2,600 pork-barrel projects worth $12 billion. And yet we don’t necessarily know where these funds will be spent, if they will be effectively put to use, or even if they are necessary. This bill will help resolve those problems.
For more information, here is a recent article about this bill by columnist Robert Novak.
UPDATE: The bill failed 70 - 330.
