by Jane Richey | Jan 16, 2014 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The allure of recess won out Thursday as senators sped up the timeline and cleared a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill. Passage completes the process on Capitol Hill of keeping the government funded through the end of the fiscal year at the end of September....
by Jane Richey | Jan 16, 2014 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Over the past several decades, big-government lawmakers and lobbyists have developed a wide array of techniques they have used to successfully advance their own interests, usually to the detriment of our nation. If conservatives are to be successful in changing...
by Jane Richey | Jan 16, 2014 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Those are all ways Heritage experts have described government programs Congress is funding—with your hard-earned money—in its new trillion-dollar omnibus spending bill. Here are a few big failures that need to be eliminated or seriously reformed—but instead are...