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Budget Review: Leading Policy Priorities for Sustained Growth

February 14, 2013 | National Journal | Budget & Tax , National Security

With the release of the House Republican’s Fiscal Year 2013 budget resolution, budgetary issues are roaring back to the front burner. This... Read More

How to Make Democrats and Republicans Agree on a Sequester Deal

February 13, 2013 | U.S. News | Budget & Tax , National Security

As we look ahead to the sequestration set to take effect at the end of the month, we are already hearing the voices from all sides offering... Read More

Truth-O-Meter: Marco Rubio says sequester was Obama’s idea

February 13, 2013 | PolitiFact | Budget & Tax , National Security

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio delivered the Republicans’ response to the State of the Union address, criticizing President Barack Obama on policy... Read More

Defense cuts a necessary step to control deficit

February 13, 2013 | POLITICO | Budget & Tax , National Security

In a couple of weeks we will have a chance to revisit the holidays and immerse ourselves in all things “sequestration.” The deal brokered... Read More

Fiscal reform needs accountability, less agency overlap

Government fiscal reform needs to come in the form of accountability, prioritizing by need and training if long term success is to be seen,... Read More

Sequestration is still better than the alternatives

February 08, 2013 | The Daily Caller | National Security

Late last year, then-Republican Study Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said of the impending sequester, “The only thing that’s... Read More

Common Sense Ways to Reduce Wasteful Federal Spending

February 06, 2013 | U.S. News | Budget & Tax , Energy , National Security

This article is part of a weekly series held by U.S. News and it's Economic Intelligence blog.... Read More

Budget Cutters Eye Nuclear Reprocessing Plant

February 06, 2013 | Roll Call | Energy , National Security

Given the threat of sequester, supporters of a $4.8 billion mixed oxide fuel fabrication facility worry that the Obama administration may be... Read More

Cost Overruns Plague Energy Department Projects

February 06, 2013 | Roll Call | Energy , National Security

The Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, known as MOX, isn’t the only high-profile project by the Energy Department’s National Nuclear... Read More

Cut defense, but cut it the right way

February 04, 2013 | Picayune Item | National Security

PICAYUNE — Republicans, and many Democrats, are upset by the prospect of so-called sequestration cuts to the nation’s defense budget.... Read More

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February 15, 2013

Engineering Boondoggles

While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as... Read More