Sequester Priorities: $50 million in Conferences or continue to incarcerate criminals?

Department of Justice officials were grilled over wasteful spending at the agency, including over $50 million on conferences, $11 million on luxury private jets, and a special unit that helps Hollywood produce films and TV shows, during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday. 

The Obama administration has said thousands of criminals may be let off the hook because of U.S. attorney staff reductions due to sequestration. But Judiciary Committee Republicans say the agency can cut its lavish spending in other areas.

“Our review of DOJ spending show that tax dollars are also used at the department to pay for event planners at elaborate conferences, pizza parties and $12 cups of coffee, and to provide cars for Washington bureaucrats to simply commute between their homes and the office,” said committee chairman Bob Goodlatte (R., Va.). “This is not money wisely spent.”

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