by Jane Richey | Jan 7, 2013 | Health Care
Obamacare’s CLASS Act was repealed in the fiscal cliff deal: This is just one example of how poorly thought out Obamacare was—but this example so captured Congress’s attention that it spurred action. Another part of Obamacare that just took effect, the medical...
by Jane Richey | Jan 7, 2013 | Agenda 21, Politics
Democrats are digging in against cuts to clean-energy research as lawmakers again face a deadline to replace billions of dollars in spending reductions from sequestration. The “fiscal cliff” deal that lawmakers struck this week delayed the sequestered budget cuts...
by Jane Richey | Jan 7, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Pushing back against the Republicans’ deficit-reduction strategy, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said this weekend that more tax revenues – not just spending cuts – must be a part of Congress’s effort to rein in deficits. Pelosi said the tax...
by Jane Richey | Jan 7, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Sunday said Republicans will demand steep spending cuts during the next round of budget negotiations. McConnell, in an interview with ABC’s “This Week,” said President Obama had won all he’s going to get on taxes in...
by Jane Richey | Jan 7, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
Dan Celia: “We’ve watched Japan do this for 12 years. That’s the problem — nobody really cares about the economy stalling,” he submits. “The worst-case scenario [to most people] is the economy stalls and we have more people on...
