by Jane Richey | Aug 3, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Taking direct aim at executive branch power, the House on August 2nd approved legislation requiring Congress to sign off on the most costly federal regulations. The Regulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act passed 232-183 in a vote that went...
by Jane Richey | Aug 1, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Federal employees were paid more than $155 million of taxpayer dollars in 2011 for spending more than 3.4 million hours of “official time” on labor union activities that fell outside their assigned government duties, according to a survey by the Office of...
by Jane Richey | Jul 30, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
According to the Daily Treasury Statement for July 26, which the Treasury released this afternoon, the federal debt has been stuck at exactly $16,699,396,000,000.00 for 70 straight days. That is approximately $25 million below the legal limit of $16,699,421,095,673.60...
by Jane Richey | Jul 26, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
For every job the White House claims to have created — 7.2 million now — two more Americans were added to the nation’s food stamp program, federal statistics reveal. In January of 2009, more than 32 million Americans received help from Supplemental Nutrition...
by Jane Richey | Jul 25, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
The National Institute of Justice is planning to spend $500,000 in federal funds to see if the booming oil industry has impacted domestic violence, dating violence, rape, and stalking in North Dakota and South Dakota and Montana. “Qualitative and quantitative methods...
by Jane Richey | Jul 19, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
The city of Detroit filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy on Thursday afternoon. Detroit’s emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, filed the request to begin what will be the biggest municipal bankruptcy in United States history. Chapter 9 status would shield the municipality...
