House Committee Slashes Funding For Scandal-Plagued GSA

A House committee voted Wednesday to slash roughly $100 million from the scandal-plagued General Services Administration’s budget next year and deny bonuses to agency officials under investigation for misconduct.

The cuts followed revelations this spring about a 2010 GSA conference outside Las Vegas that cost taxpayers more than $800,000 and included a clown and a mentalist. Videotapes released during the investigation showed employees from the agency’s Western region mocking the lavish spending and activities.

“This bill directs funding where it will do our citizens the most good, and aims to eliminate gross mismanagement of public funds, like the GSA boondoggle in Las Vegas,” said Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., the committee chairman.

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