by Jane Richey | May 26, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Lobbyists are girding for a slew of battles on the farm bill, which will hit the Senate floor in early June. There are many hurdles to getting a farm bill to President Obama’s desk this election year. As a bipartisan group of senators work to pass the measure through...
by Jane Richey | May 26, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The House will keep voting on piecemeal bills to repeal parts of President Obama’s healthcare law before the Supreme Court decides whether the law is unconstitutional. Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said in a planning memo that the House will vote on two...
by Jane Richey | May 26, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Friday that the House will vote in July on a bill to ease environmental regulations in response to raids on Gibson Guitar factories last year. Federal agents seized seized raw materials, electronic files and guitars as...
by Jane Richey | May 25, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Just because you were once the most powerful nation on earth does not mean that you will always be the most powerful nation on earth. Every single year, hundreds of billions of dollars leaves the United States and goes to China. This enormous transfer of wealth has...
by Jane Richey | May 25, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
President Barack Obama on Wednesday staked his claim to being the most effective fiscal conservative to serve in the White House in more than half a century. “Since I’ve been president, federal spending has risen at the lowest pace in nearly 60 years,” Obama said at a...
by Jane Richey | May 25, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
President Obama used the backdrop of an Iowa wind-energy manufacturing plant Thursday to ramp up pressure on Congress to extend an expiring tax break that has been vital to financing new power projects. Extension of the wind-energy production tax credit — which is...
