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, Free Markets
As Senate Republicans and Democrats Wednesday slammed a European Union directive charging all airlines that enter European airspace for carbon emissions, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) blamed the dispute over the cap-and-trade system on America’s failure to support global...
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 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The House approved two amendments to a 2013 spending bill late Tuesday night that would prohibit the government from enforcing federal light bulb standards that Republicans say are too intrusive. In a voice vote, the House approved an amendment to the Energy and Water...
