by Jane Richey | Apr 11, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The nation’s top housing regulator on Tuesday signaled a willingness to reduce mortgage principal for some borrowers but stopped short of endorsing a plan that would attempt to do that. Edward DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), said...
by Jane Richey | Apr 11, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Proponents of an online sales tax aren’t letting up in their push to move legislation through Congress this year, despite the opposition of conservative heavyweights. Retailers have been lobbying aggressively for legislation that would help states collect sales taxes...
by Jane Richey | Apr 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
In his report, Charles Blahous revisits the Republican claim that the administration “double counted” Medicare savings when scoring the budgetary impact of the law. He argues that practice hides the real cost of the measure, even though it conforms with...
by Jane Richey | Apr 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Monday formally delayed new billing rules that doctors have criticized as overly complicated. HHS gave doctors an extra year to begin using a new set of codes when billing insurance companies for their services. The...
by Jane Richey | Apr 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Last week, “an unelected group of people” over at the Environmental Protection Agency revised our national energy policy, approving a new gasoline blend with up to 15% ethanol, known as E15, which may be available in pumps this summer. Currently, most...
by Jane Richey | Apr 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is looking to overhaul the mortgage servicing industry, arguing that the problem-plagued sector is unaccountable and opaque. The CFPB announced Monday that it was mulling rules to reform that industry, which has been...
