by Jane Richey | Jan 15, 2014 | Fiscal Responsibility
As the House takes up a $1.1-trillion omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal year 2014 on Wednesday, it will do so without the support of Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), who says the rush job is a bad deal for a number of reasons. “I appreciate the fact that...
by Jane Richey | Jan 15, 2014 | Fiscal Responsibility
The omnibus spending bill does not defund the Department of Agriculture’s controversial advertising and outreach campaigns — including a partnership with the Mexican government — aimed at promoting food-stamp use. Instead, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal...
by Jane Richey | Jan 15, 2014 | Fiscal Responsibility
Advocates for military retirees have been pressuring lawmakers to stop the planned cuts to veterans’ pensions from going into effect this year. But a new spending deal announced in Congress this week would leave 90 percent of those cuts in place, according to one...
by Jane Richey | Jan 14, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
The proposed $1.1 trillion spending bill rolled out by House-Senate negotiators on Monday night restores funding to the Head Start program, but is the program actually worth the cost? Proposed in the 1,582 page budget deal is an $8.6 billion investment in Head Start,...
by Jane Richey | Jan 14, 2014 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Congressional leaders say they have agreed on a roughly $1 trillion spending bill that will fund the U.S. government through the end of the 2014 budget year. Shaking off three years of a bitter partisan freeze, Democratic and Republican negotiators unveiled the $1.012...
by Jane Richey | Jan 10, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Regulations that went into effect in 2013 cost Americans $112 billion – or $447 million for each of the 251 days the federal government was open – according to a study by the American Action Forum (AAF), which predicts that the regulatory burden will increase to...
