Political Quotes

“That is that the General Accounting Office has concluded the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services illegally spent Federal money on what amounted to covert propaganda, by producing videos about the Medicare changes that were made to look like news reports. Portions of the videos which had been aired by 40 television stations around the country do not make it clear that the announcers were paid by Health and Human Services, or paid by taxpayers, and that they were not real reporters. In fact, the administration has violated two Federal laws. This comes from the nonpartisan arm, the Congressional Investigative Services, the General Accounting Office. They indicated two different laws that the administration broke in these ads on Medicare. No. 1, the Omnibus appropriations bill of 2003: The prohibition on using appropriated funds for publicity or propaganda purposes. No. 2, the Anti-Deficiency Act: Incurred obligations in excess of appropriations available for that purpose.”