by Jane Richey | Mar 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Faced with declining state revenue, Temple University’s provost spent the last year looking at ways to cut costs and improve operations, but some educators on campus aren’t pleased with his ideas. In a 25-page white paper, Dick Englert laid out a range of...
by Jane Richey | Mar 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
President Barack Obama says higher auto mileage standards set under his administration and better cars built by a resurgent U.S. auto industry will save money at the gas pump over the long term, a counterpoint to Republican criticism of his energy policy. In his...
by Jane Richey | Mar 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Several Republican leaders in the Senate and House spoke about their legislation to repeal all tax subsidies to the energy industry on Thursday, stating that government should not be in the business of “picking winners and losers” but should instead seek to ensure a...
by Jane Richey | Mar 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
MoveOn.org is pressing Obama to replace Ed DeMarco, the man President Bush appointed to oversee Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which hold a majority of U.S. homeowners’ mortgages. Liberals complain that DeMarco “refused to allow underwater homeowners to...
by Jane Richey | Mar 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
More than three years into the gas-drilling boom that’s produced thousands of new wells, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state of Pennsylvania are tussling over regulation of the Marcellus Shale, the vast underground rock formation that holds...
by Jane Richey | Mar 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Freshman Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.) has spent his first term trying to shrink the size of government — literally. As chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management, he was behind...
