by Jane Richey | Jun 26, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The Philadelphia Police Department will receive more than $3 million in federal money to hire new officers, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday. The grant, part of $111 million in funding being awarded to law enforcement agencies around the country,...
by Jane Richey | Jun 26, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Two prominent Republican lawmakers are heading for a showdown over whether Congress should use money from closing tax loopholes to avert major cuts to Pentagon spending. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) has sent a strong signal he does not...
by Jane Richey | Jun 26, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The Interior Department’s lease sales this week in the Central Gulf of Mexico received the highest bids to explore for oil and gas there in at least three decades. This result seemed to surprise Secretary of Interior Salazar. But it should not come as a shock. Under...
by Jane Richey | Jun 25, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
As the House debates the once-every-five-years farm bill, the majority of which goes to food stamps, there is a renewed and fervent call from a broad spectrum of camps that the information — some of the most high-dollar, frequently requested and closely held secrets...
by Jane Richey | Jun 25, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Germany’s finance minister is rejecting U.S. President Barack Obama’s calls on Europe to move faster in fighting its debt crisis, telling him to get the American deficit under control instead. Wolfgang Schaeuble told public broadcaster ZDF in an interview...
