Peter Schweizer talks US Government Transparency with Wharton School of Business Radio
GAI’s President joins David Lawrence to discuss the current state of U.S. government transparency, the challenges with improving it and the problems it may pose.
San Francisco Chronicle: “An Upright Salute to Government Today”
“… The current state of Washington is pretty bad. A new book, “Extortion,” by Peter Schweizer of Stanford’s Hoover Institution, describes in detail how so-called leadership PACs, created as a way around the ethics reforms enacted in the last effort at clean government, provide Congress members with what amount to personal slush funds, with which…
‘Real News from the Blaze’: Need for Government Benefits on the Rise, What can be Done?
The Wall Street Journal released a troubling report this week finding that 49.1 percent of Americans live in a household where at least one member received some type of government benefit in the first quater of 2011. That’s up nearly 5 precent from 2008 and nearly 20 percent from the early 1980s. With the rise…