by Jane Richey | Jan 8, 2014 | Fiscal Responsibility
A new report from Congressional Quarterly suggests that ObamaCare isn’t the only item being delayed in the White House these days. Apparently the official White House budget proposal, which is required by law to be submitted to Congress no later than the...
by Jane Richey | Jan 8, 2014 | Agenda 21
Blasting Republican “climate-change deniers” as well as “blathering idiots on talk shows” who joked about the “Arctic vortex,” Rep. Peter DeFazio urged Congress to tackle climate change in 2014. He called it one of the...
by Jane Richey | Jan 8, 2014 | Fiscal Responsibility
In a brief speech on the House floor Wednesday, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) hailed the war on poverty, endorsed government welfare programs, and said the “safety net has to be something for all of us.” “Maybe the word welfare should be changed...
by Jane Richey | Jan 8, 2014 | Free Markets
U.S. Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Tom Donohue unveiled a wide-ranging plan to create jobs through boosting domestic energy production, reforming the tax and entitlement systems and slashing red tape facing the private sector. Delivering his annual State of...
by Jane Richey | Jan 7, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
A 1976 American Economic Association survey found that 90 percent of its members agreed that increasing the minimum wage raises unemployment among young and unskilled workers. A 1990 survey reported in the American Economic Review (1992) found that 80 percent of...