Oversight

Guns and Butter: Setting Priorities in Federal Spending in the Context of Natural Disaster, Deficits and War

Date: October 25, 2005

Time: 2:30pm

Agenda:

How can Congress justify spending billions of taxpayers dollars on wasteful and ineffective programs when we are a nation at war, recovering from the worst natural disaster in our history, already stretched thin by record non-military spending?

Witnesses

Panel 1

The Honorable

John

Shadegg

U.S. House of Representatives

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The Honorable

Charlie

Stenholm

Government Affairs Advisor

Olsson, Frank and Weeda, P.C and Former Member of Congress

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Dr.

Roger

Pilon

Vice President for Legal Affairs, B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies

Director, Center for Constitutional Studies, the Cato Institute

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Dr.

Daniel

Mitchell

McKenna Senior Fellow in Political Economy

The Heritage Foundation

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