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A Speaker of the House gets to keep his office, its staff, and its budget for five years after no longer being Speaker.
The Ziggurat Building, also known as the Chet Holifield Federal Building, will sell at a tremendous loss after decades of no repairs.
Indiana public officials have been ordering luxury cars with breathtaking accessories at equally breathtaking prices.
The proposed $20 billion water tunnel in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta might cost twice as much and wouldn't even work as advertised.
Medicare and Social Security are nearly insolvent as it is. Eliminating improper payments is only a small part of the solution.
For more than a century after the Spanish-American War ended, telephone users paid a tax to finance it in lieu of tariffs.
The USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) more than quadrupled its spending in the last quarter century, while staff numbers fell.
A small federal agency, that existed only to provide channels for nepotism and other luxuries, now has laid off 92.5 percent of its staff.
Federal and State authorities paid $4.3 billion to cover many Medicaid patients twice, and deliberately ignored warnings about double dipping.
The city of Lynn, Massachusetts cleverly used federal grants on various beautification projects, and no one counted the cost.
