by Jane Richey | Jun 7, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The regional authority overseeing the $6 billion Dulles rail project dealt a blow to union labor on Wednesday — a day after voters in Wisconsin and California did much the same. The authority’s move to quash union-friendly language for a crucial component of one of...
by Jane Richey | Jun 7, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The Obama administration on Wednesday acknowledged a wide-ranging definition of “green jobs” that includes bus driver, bicycle-shop clerk and other unexpected lines of employment, which the chairman of the GOP-led House oversight committee said is being done for...
by Jane Richey | Jun 7, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Female Senate Democrats said they would continue to fight for the Paycheck Fairness Act on the premise that women earn 77 cents on the dollar compared to men, despite that the legislation failed to pass in the Senate on Tuesday. A vote to end a filibuster and move the...
by Jane Richey | Jun 7, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) proposed raising the minimum wage to $10 an hour today but when asked why it should not be raised to $20 an hour Jackson did not answer directly, saying only that “even making the argument for $20 an hour would by far surpass” the goal...
by Jane Richey | Jun 7, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Since President Barack Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, the Federal Reserve’s holdings of U.S. government debt have quintupled, according to the Fed’s official monthly balance sheet. On Jan. 28, 2009, a week after Obama’s nomination, the Fed owned $302 billion...
by Jane Richey | Jun 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Banking regulations have swung too far toward the extreme since the Wall Street meltdown in 2008, which is preventing the economy from moving forward, says the head of a Washington bank. “We need balance,” J. Scott Wilfong, president and CEO of SunTrust Bank of...
