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Congress Aids Oregon Electric Motorcycle Maker in Budget

The fine print of Congress’s Jan. 1 budget deal includes a tax credit rewritten by Oregon lawmakers to benefit home-state motorcycle...

Super-storm of pork hits Washington

Now that fiscal cliff panic is under control, we can return to panicking over Super Storm Sandy, which flooded the streets of Washington...

How America Can Avoid the Next Fiscal Cliff

Ryan Alexander is the president of Taxpayers for Common Sense. Unbelievably, as I write this on the morning of December 31, there is no...

Short-term reforms to avert the Fiscal Cliff

All the talk surrounding the fiscal cliff has been about the big numbers of how much revenue raisers and spending cuts would be necessary....

A Holiday Wish List for Congress

For many of us who give gifts at this time of year, the rituals put in perspective the differences between what we can afford, what we need,...

$60B Sandy Relief Bill Advances in Senate

Senate Democrats said Friday they have enough votes to approve a more than $60 billion Sandy relief bill, overcoming objections that it...

Is Delta Regional Authority on chopping block?

WASHINGTON — The Delta Regional Authority has invested $108 million in 718 projects in eight states, including Arkansas, Mississippi and...

Norm Dicks’ decades in Congress brought a lot of money back to home state

WASHINGTON – Pentagon chief Leon Panetta strode into the Cannon Caucus Room on Capitol Hill, surrounded by military officers in dress-green...

It’s Time for a Plan “D”

After last night's Republican Plan "B" debacle and failure to find agreement within their own Caucus left them with no pathway forward, it...

What the Sandy Bill Teaches Us About Our Spending Problem

Among all the discussion about the outlines of a deal to avert the fiscal cliff, one thing is notably absent: details about spending cuts....

Engineering Boondoggles

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