Senator Mark Pryor wants our ideas on how to cut federal spending. Take a look at this video clip below:
Senator Pryor has asked us to send our ideas to him at cutspending@pryor.senate.gov and I have done so in the past and will continue to do so in the future.
On May 11, 2011, I emailed to this above address and I got this email back from Senator Pryor’s office:
Please note, this is not a monitored email account. Due to the sheer volume of correspondence I receive, I ask that constituents please contact me via my website with any responses or additional concerns. If you would like a specific reply to your message, please visit http://pryor.senate.gov/contact. This system ensures that I will continue to keep Arkansas First by allowing me to better organize the thousands of emails I get from Arkansans each week and ensuring that I have all the information I need to respond to your particular communication in timely manner. I appreciate you writing. I always welcome your input and suggestions. Please do not hesitate to contact me on any issue of concern to you in the future.
Here are a few more I just emailed to him myself:
- End low-priority programs that should never have been created in the first place, including:
- The Denali Commission (2004 spending: $56 million, discretionary);12
- The Conservation Reserve Program ($1,879 million, mandatory);13
- The Commission of Fine Arts ($8 million, discretionary);
- The Historic Whaling and Trading Partners Exchange Program ($9 million, discretionary);
- The Office of Navajo and Hopi Relocation ($14 million, discretionary);
- AmeriCorps ($324 million, discretionary);
- The National Endowment for the Humanities ($131 million, discretionary);
- Farm subsidies for wool, mohair, lentils, and chickpeas ($28 million, mandatory);
- The Marine Mammal Commission ($3 million, discretionary);
- The East−West Center ($20 million, discretionary);
- The Legal Services Corporation ($341 million, discretionary);
- The protectionist programs of the International Trade Administration ($364 million, discretionary);
- The Bureau of International Labor Affairs ($105 million, discretionary);
- The National Commission on Libraries and Information Science ($1 million, discretionary);
- The U.S. Institute of Peace ($17 million, discretionary);
- The Agriculture Department’s wood utilization research ($6 million, discretionary);
- The National Endowment for the Arts ($112 million, discretionary); and
- Most of the 945 federal advisory committees and commissions scattered across 52 agencies.14
This is how bad it is getting:
Entitlement Spending