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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,986 posts)
Wed Apr 18, 2018, 01:30 PM Apr 2018

White House budget office to investigate Pruitts soundproof booth

The White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is planning to investigate the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to spend more than $43,000 for a soundproof booth for Administrator Scott Pruitt.

OMB Director Mick Mulvaney told lawmakers on the House Appropriations Committee about the plans to probe the booth Wednesday at a hearing of the committee’s subpanel that oversees the OMB.

Mulvaney said that since the Government Accountability Office (GAO) ruled Monday that the spending on the booth was a violation of the Antideficiency Act, OMB will investigate.

“We take the Antideficiency statute very, very seriously. And if they’ve been broken, we’ll follow the rules,” he told Rep. Mike Quigley (Ill.), the subpanel’s top Democrat.

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/383745-white-house-budget-office-to-investigate-pruitts-soundproof-booth

I'm sure they'll kick ass and take names.

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White House budget office to investigate Pruitts soundproof booth (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2018 OP
I just finished removing an erroneous.... LAS14 Apr 2018 #1
Mulvaney will shake his finger at Pruitt leftieNanner Apr 2018 #2
The committee's going to hold a hearing on a soundproof booth... LastLiberal in PalmSprings Apr 2018 #3
Every time I hear about this, leftieNanner Apr 2018 #4
Me, too. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Apr 2018 #5
WH has no rules Angry Dragon Apr 2018 #6

LAS14

(13,783 posts)
1. I just finished removing an erroneous....
Wed Apr 18, 2018, 01:33 PM
Apr 2018

... apostrophe from the subject of my post. You can have it for Pruitt's.

What is it with these apostrophes. They show up wrong half the time.

leftieNanner

(15,100 posts)
2. Mulvaney will shake his finger at Pruitt
Wed Apr 18, 2018, 01:34 PM
Apr 2018

and say "naughty, naughty, do it again and you're grounded mister"

So OMB said it's illegal - and what happens? Any consequences?

I don't think so.

leftieNanner

(15,100 posts)
4. Every time I hear about this,
Wed Apr 18, 2018, 01:35 PM
Apr 2018

I picture Maxwell Smart and the Cone of Silence!

Except Maxwell Smart IS smarter than Pruitt.

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