by Jane Richey | Mar 19, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
A group of Senate Democrats is calling on the Obama administration to amend proposed emissions standards for new power plants, saying the regulations, as currently drafted, would devastate the coal industry in their home states. Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Joe...
by Jane Richey | Mar 18, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Health Care
Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.) said the effort to defund Obamacare by amending the continuing resolution (CR) — to fund the government for the next six months — is worth potentially shutting down the government, but he added that he does not think “the...
by Jane Richey | Mar 18, 2013 | Agenda 21, Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
President Barack Obama called for shifting American vehicles “entirely” off oil and said the government must finance green energy projects because they are “too risky” for the private sector. “We recognize there are some things we do together as a country because...
by Jane Richey | Mar 15, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Health Care
On Thursday, Joyce Manchester, a chief analyst with the Congressional budget Office, told a House subcommittee that the number of people seeking Disability Insurance (DI) benefits is expected to continue rising, and she said the Affordable Care Act “is likely to...
by Jane Richey | Mar 13, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Health Care
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) decided to print out all 20,000 pages of ObamaCare regulations, stack them in a single pile, and photograph the result using a chair for reference. That’s a good seven feet of regulations. The top 828 pages, by the way,...
by Jane Richey | Mar 13, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Health Care
While Members of Congress are arguing about defunding parts of Obamacare, the rubber is meeting the road in the states. Governors and state legislatures are sweating decisions about setting up government health care exchanges and expanding the Medicaid program. While...
