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Freshman Congresswoman Introduces First Bill
17th District Representative Cheri Bustos held a brief conference call Wednesday morning regarding a new bill she's introduced into the house.

The bill called the Government Waste Reduction Act is the first sponsored bill for the Freshman Congresswoman.

Bustos told reporters via a conference call the bill would create an independent government waste reduction board whose job would be to find programs to cut in a effort to balance the federal budget.

"The board would be tasked with developing legislative proposals that implement the government accountability recommendation and them send them to Congress," says Bustos. "The next step, Congress would get an up or down vote on the proposal and I think it's very important to note that these proposals would not be anything that would not be anything that would cut benefits for verterans, armed forces or for seniors."

Bustos says the legislation comes out of the recommendations from the Government Accountability office.

She says the offices, back in 2011, recommended 81 program be cut and then again in 2012 they recommended an additional 51 programs.

Bustos says this would "take a look at a report that's been sitting out there now for a couple years and puts some teeth into it."

She says the bill creates the tools congress needs to act on the recommendations in the reports and let congress "vote on getting rid of the waste and redundancy."
02 06 13 by Newsroom
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