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10.05.2009 4:37 pm

Congressional investigation takes aim at ethanol

Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — What Congress giveth, Congress also taketh away.

That’s the concern of Midwestern ethanol-makers and their corn  farmer brethren in the aftermath of a surprisingly strong report by the Government Accountability Office concluding  that ethanol’s 45-cent per gallon tax credit is unnecessary.

Congress’s…

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08.03.2009 5:26 pm

McCaskill: Stop wasteful bonuses to contractors

Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau
Sen. McCaskill

Sen. McCaskill

WASHINGTON — With all the talk in D.C. about billions and trillions, it’s easy to overlook disclosures that the government wastes hundreds of millions of dollars on this and that.

But that was the finding by the Government Accountability Office a few weeks ago…

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