by Jane Richey | Mar 7, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Posted on the White House webpage: ATTN Interested Parties, Due to staffing reductions resulting from sequestration, we regret to inform you that White House Tours will be canceled effective Saturday, March 9, 2013 until further notice. Unfortunately, we will not be...
by Jane Richey | Mar 6, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
1.) Hordes of minimum-wage workers 2.) The “working poor” getting by on minimum wage 3.) Minimum-wage workers trapped in poverty 4.) Lifelong minimum-wage earners 5.) More single parents on minimum wage Read...
by Jane Richey | Mar 6, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The White House may be closed to spring break visitors because of staff shortages blamed on spending reductions, but it looks like the White House Easter Egg roll, a party for 35,000 hosted by the Obama family, is still on. Since public tours of the White House are...
by Jane Richey | Mar 1, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
Two high-tech luxury jets that the FBI convinced Congress were needed for the fight against global terrorism have instead been used to ferry around Attorney General Eric Holder and his predecessors, as well as FBI Director Robert Mueller, according to a government...
by Jane Richey | Feb 27, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is suspending all military flights for congressional travel abroad under sequestration, according to a House leadership aide. The move is being made as part of the reductions in spending that congressional offices also have to...
by Jane Richey | Feb 27, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Funding for the Department of Energy increased 43.2 percent from 2002 through 2012, according to calculations based on Treasury Department data. In fiscal year 2002 (Oct. 1, 2001 – Sept. 30, 2002), outlays for the Energy Department were $17,772,000,000, according to...
