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...
by Jane Richey | May 1, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Eight Pennsylvania entities that received more than $10 million in federal stimulus money failed to complete mandatory quarterly reports showing how the money was spent. The eight recipients — cities, counties, nonprofits and companies in the Keystone State — are...
by Jane Richey | May 1, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
U.S. growth in the first quarter fell to 2.2 percent, a disappointment. But in Europe, that news would have caused general rejoicing. For consider the gathering crisis on the old continent. With negative growth now for six months, Britain has fallen back into...
by Jane Richey | May 1, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
In a Mar. 16 memorandum, Energy Secretary Steven Chu outlined plans to restructure the marketing of federal hydropower operations in an effort to advance the Obama administration’s green energy agenda, which apparently would raise electricity costs, critics charged on...
