by Jane Richey | May 3, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The Interior Department will release a new proposal to regulate “fracking” on federal lands as soon as Thursday, a top industry official told The Hill. “I expect they will be out tomorrow or Friday,” American Petroleum Institute CEO Jack Gerard said...
by Jane Richey | May 3, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Lawmakers will not have to re-fight their epic battle over raising the debt ceiling until after the November elections, according to the Treasury Department. April tax receipts have not moved Treasury’s debt-ceiling target date, and Secretary Timothy Geithner...
by Jane Richey | May 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Last week, the total amount of debt emanating from student loans in the U.S. reached $1 trillion. With the Great Recession still present in the daily lives of the middle class, salaried jobs for college graduates are tough to come by. Many have had to settle for...
by Jane Richey | May 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
A new survey of Fortune 100 companies finds that the health care overhaul, contrary to the claims of its authors, created some perverse incentives for employers to drop workers from company insurance plans. Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee surveyed...
by Jane Richey | May 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Sunday marked the three-year anniversary since the Senate last passed a budget. April 29 was the record 1,096th day without a federal budget since passing a budget was required by law in 1974. Normally, each house of Congress passes its own budget, reconciles the...
by Jane Richey | May 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
Two Allegheny County nonprofits received a total of nearly $3 million in federal funding under the new health care law, Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today. Sto-Rox Family Health Council in McKees Rocks and Community Health Clinic...
