Golden Fleece Award

Congressman French Hill (R-AR) named the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) as the latest winner of the Golden Fleece award for their wasteful spending on polygraph tests. Earlier this month, an Office of Inspector General (OIG) report found that the CBP had spent more than five million dollars on polygraph tests for job candidates who had previously disclosed disqualifying conduct,… Read more »

Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) announced that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) would receive the Golden Fleece Award for the rash of drug thefts at VA health facilities. Recent data from the Drug Enforcement Administration shows the rate of reported missing drugs at VA health facilities was more than double that of private sector hospitals. Since reinstituting the Golden… Read more »

Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) announced that this month’s Golden Fleece recipient is the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during an interview on First News with Kevin Miller. During the interview, Hill stated, “The IRS’ anti-fraud program [is] a really important part of what the IRS does.  Just between 2008 and 2010, they lost $458 billion a year on not capturing… Read more »

Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) wrote a letter to Under Secretary for Health at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and current VA Secretary Nominee David Shulkin informing him that his department would be receiving the Golden Fleece Award for February.   According to a recent audit from the VA Office of the Inspector General (OIG) that reviewed the VA’s use of… Read more »

Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) announced that the entire Obama Administration would be the recipient of the Golden Fleece Award for January. A recent report from the American Action Forum found that the administration’s last minute environmental and other regulations would cost the U.S. economy $6 billion. Today, in an effort to prevent similar behavior from future… Read more »

On Monday, The Washington Post published a report that Pentagon officials buried evidence of $125 billion in bureaucratic waste in 2015. Following the Post’s reporting, Congressman French Hill announced the Department of Defense (DoD) would receive this month’s Golden Fleece Award. The buried report identified $134 billion of the DoD’s $580 billion budget was spent on overhead and… Read more »

Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) sent Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Bob McDonald a letter awarding the VA with the Golden Fleece Award for the mishandling of the $8 million solar panel project at the Little Rock VA Medical Center. Last week, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released its report on the VA Green Management… Read more »

Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-2) announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is the February recipient of the Golden Fleece Award... Read more »

Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-2) announced the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the November recipient for the Golden Fleece Award for their award of $142 million in bonuses to VA employees and the decision to allow two VA officials that manipulated the agency’s employee relocation program to keep the funds they received from defrauding hardworking taxpayers. This is VA’s… Read more »

Last week, Congressman French Hill (AR-2) sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy to alert her that the EPA was October’s recipient of the Golden Fleece Award. Text of the letter can be seen below... Read more »