by Jane Richey | Sep 29, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Health Care
House Republicans approved a stopgap spending bill that delays ObamaCare in an early-morning Sunday vote that increases the chances of a government shutdown. The high-stakes GOP move intensifies a game of chicken with Senate Democrats with just 48 hours to go before...
by Jane Richey | Sep 23, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Out-of-control spending by Congress and the Obama Administration has once again maxed out the latest debt limit—a nearly $17 trillion burden that harms job growth [1], gives special interests a pass, and lowers American families’ personal income. Inspired by Dave...
by Jane Richey | Sep 20, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $443,010 grant to study tree biodiversity in China. The grant – which funds the project from April 30, 2013 to Aug. 31, 2015 – is designed to “establish an international research coordination network that combines two...
by Jane Richey | Sep 19, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Health Care
Today’s Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report [2] reiterates the long-standing and obvious fact that there is a health care spending crisis approaching, resulting largely from the structurally flawed Medicare program and made significantly worse by Obamacare’s new...
by Jane Richey | Sep 18, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
Since January, the Social Security Administration (SSA) sent disability insurance (SSDI) checks worth $1.29 billion to an estimated 36,000 people who were still on the job and thus ineligible for benefits, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report...
by Jane Richey | Sep 18, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
During the four years that marked President Barack Obama’s first term in office, the real median income of American households dropped by $2,627 and the number of people in poverty increased by approximately 6,667,000, according to data released today by the Census...
