by Jane Richey | Mar 21, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
In one week, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments surrounding the key provision of the 2010 health care law – the individual mandate. But outside of the courts, efforts in Congress to tinker with the complex and controversial law continue, including a vote this...
by Jane Richey | Mar 21, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
A coalition of environmental groups issued a scorecard Tuesday rating the voting records of Pa. Senators and Representatives on the issue of Marcellus shale. The Pa. Sierra Club, Conservation Voters of Pa., Clean Water Action and Penn Environment issued the ratings,...
by Jane Richey | Mar 21, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Less than a year ago, the House of Representatives passed a budget that took on our generation’s greatest domestic challenge: reforming and modernizing government to prevent an explosion of debt from crippling our nation and robbing our children of their future....
by Jane Richey | Mar 21, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Today the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), released the full report on its investigation of the Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program. Readers of IER will not be surprised to learn that the report...
by Jane Richey | Mar 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other social insurance programs are bankrupting America. They will produce ever-escalating deficits for as far as the eye can see. So what can we do about it? All we hear out of Washington are “eat-your-spinach” solutions — both...
by Jane Richey | Mar 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Paul Ryan (R-WI), Chairman of the House Budget Committee, will release his budget blueprint today in what will surely be one of the most important policy developments in Washington this year. If as expected Senate Democrats fail yet again to advance a budget for the...
