U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is returning $600,000 to the U.S. Treasury, money he said he saved through frugally operating his Senate office in the past year.
“It’s the only budget I control. … It’s not enough, but it’s a start,” Paul said at a news conference Wednesday near Fourth and Liberty streets in downtown Louisville.
The $600,000, which amounts to about 17 percent of Paul’s $3.5 million office budget, was in addition to about $500,000 he saved two years ago, his first year in the Senate, Paul said.
He said the savings were realized by “watching every purchase,” including keeping close tabs on expenditures for “computers, paper, ink cartridges. Everything we buy.”
He said he also keeps close watch on travel expenditures and noted that, although he frequently flies between Washington and Kentucky, his staff seldom does. He said he also doesn’t pay his staff excessive salaries.
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Brace yourself Senator Ryan, the Liberals will attack all who show the slightest hint of having integrity..
@ watchman48,
Just want you to be clear. It’s Senator Rand Paul, not Paul Ryan they are talking about here. I get their names mixid myself.
Thanks you.. .That wasn’t the first time I made that mistake…
Hey is going to run for President? That would be a change.
I understand the almighty and all-knowing reverrearend/extorter/’R'dropper, Jesse Jackasson, has dispatched members of his Operation PUSH gang to visit Mr. Paul. Seems his sonny boy, recently defrocked congressman Little Jesse ‘the idiot’ Jackasson was recently indicted, along with his indicted ‘Michael Jackson look alike’ wifie, both from the great state of ILLinois, demanding Mr. Paul forward the unneeded money to their office as a legal defense donation or as prayer money to save the world.
If we had more people like Paul, it’d be a lot better off than we now are… Obama had gotten that Peace Prize of $1.4 million dollars…Saying he would give all that money back… but DID HE?
On their federal return, the Obamas claimed itemized deductions of $78,269 for state and local taxes and $49,945 for home mortgage interest on their home in Chicago. ======= If it is said he paid the mortgage interest…. why is it said there are three people on that deed for the house who where I read they paid the taxes on that house..
http://hillbuzz.org/the-obamas-already-preparing-for-move-to-hawaii-in-january-2013-hyde-park-neighbors-talking-about-chicago-house-being-sold-soon-63935
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979443695
http://www.akdart.com/obama.html