by Jane Richey | Mar 21, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Less than a year ago, the House of Representatives passed a budget that took on our generation’s greatest domestic challenge: reforming and modernizing government to prevent an explosion of debt from crippling our nation and robbing our children of their future....
by Jane Richey | Mar 21, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Today the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), released the full report on its investigation of the Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program. Readers of IER will not be surprised to learn that the report...
by Jane Richey | Mar 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
If the Obama administration persuades the Supreme Court to uphold its health care overhaul law, it will be in large part thanks to a 70-year-old precedent involving an Ohio farmer named Roscoe C. Filburn. Mr. Filburn sued to overturn a 1938 federal law that told him...
by Jane Richey | Mar 19, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
Economist Lan T. Pham says she was fired from the Congressional Budget Office for “producing work at odds with Wall Street research favored by her supervisors. In a letter written to Sen. Charles Grassley, Ms. Pham says that the CBO, which is supposed to be a...
by Jane Richey | Mar 19, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) was first created in 1943, this obscure government agency backs the purchase of American-made goods oversees with loans backed by the full faith and credit of the United States. The bank’s renewable charter first expired in September of...
by Jane Richey | Mar 19, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Death, taxes and now health insurance? Having a medical plan or else paying a fine is about to become another certainty of American life, unless the Supreme Court says no. People are split over the wisdom of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, but...
