by Jane Richey | Aug 5, 2013 | Politics
Russia will charge the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) $71 million to transport just one American astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard its Soyuz spacecraft in 2016. That’s more than triple the $22 million per seat the...
by Jane Richey | Aug 4, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Members of Congress are heading back to their districts this weekend for the August recess, but regulators across Washington will remain at work crafting new rules. In coming weeks and months, the Obama administration is set to issue scores of regulations, some of...
by Jane Richey | Aug 3, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Health Care
Thirty-nine Republican senators demanded answers from the White House on why unrelated federal agencies are spending funds to help implement and promote ObamaCare. “At a time federal agency budgets have been tightened by the sequester and the White House has warned of...
by Jane Richey | Aug 3, 2013 | Agenda 21, Constitutionally Limited Goverment
The State Department’s internal watchdog has “initiated an inquiry” into whether the contractor Foggy Bottom used for a draft environmental analysis on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline had a conflict of interest. The move is a response to allegations from several...
by Jane Richey | Aug 3, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Taking direct aim at executive branch power, the House on August 2nd approved legislation requiring Congress to sign off on the most costly federal regulations. The Regulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act passed 232-183 in a vote that went...
