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MEDIA ADVISORY: Burgess, Lee, Schakowsky to Indroduce 'Audit the Pentagon' Bill
Posted by Jill Shatzen on July 16, 2014 | comments
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Washington, D.C. – Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) will join Congresswomen Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) in discussing new legislation to encourage greater fiscal accountability and transparency at the Pentagon by imposing a 0.5% penalty for unauditable units while protecting funding for personnel and critical national security needs. 

The members will join Grover Norquist for a press conference tomorrow to introduce the bill.

WHEN: Thursday, July 17, 2014, 9 a.m. ET

WHERE: House Triangle

WHO: Congressman Michael Burgess (R-TX), Vice-Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittees on Health and Oversight & Investigations, and  member of the House Rules Committee; 

Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), member of the House Appropriations and Budget Committees;

Grover Norquist, founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform, and

Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. 

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