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The Feds’ Next GSA Wasteful Spending Scandal?

The Federal Maritime Commission is a federal agency most folks have never even heard of. But that may be about to change, according to the Washington Examiner. What’s more, the incident below may just be the tip of the iceberg.

Have you seen Federal Maritime Commission Chair Richard Lidinsky walking around Capitol Hill lately? Probably not, if Rep. Darrell Issa’s sources are correct.

Issa, who chairs the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, suggests Lidinsky has a personal driver to transport him from FMC headquarters all the way down the street to the Metro. “According to information we have received,” Issa wrote in a May 9 letter that was provided to Yeas & Nays, “the FMC procured an official car and chauffer used mostly to drive you from FMC headquarters to Union Station, a distance of approximately three blocks.”

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