Oppose Ag-Only Farm Bill: Spends More Than Senate Bill; Changes Make Subsidies Permanent
July 11, 2013
A panel of experts expressed pessimism Wednesday that lawmakers can tackle broad-based tax reform this Congress, but they stressed that the...
Washington is a town marked more frequently by disagreement than consensus, but there is one point on which almost all parties agree: The...
LATELY AND ironically, I'm wondering whether good government is bad for governing.
I say lately because of that gun vote in Washington...
Some Republican lawmakers are criticizing President Obama for suggesting the government consider selling the Tennessee Valley Authority....
Reasonable Americans understand that reducing the federal deficit will require a combination of spending cuts and increases in...
The Senate’s pending immigration bill sets aside $3.5 billion for additional surveillance of the country’s southern border, or roughly $1.79...
President Barack Obama's $3.8 trillion budget proposal calls for imposing annual per-vessel fees on the barge industry to pay for an $8...
This month, Rep. Albio Sires (D-N.Y.) reintroduced legislation that would create a federal backstop for disaster insurance, replacing...
Every year, part of the president's budget request to Congress includes a detailed catalog of programs targeted for the chopping block. It's...
Four different branches of the U.S. military are spending millions of dollars to equip troops with combat uniforms in seven different but...
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Volume XVIII No. 37
Possible action in Syria has become the most recent excuse du jour for Pentagon boosters...
July 11, 2013