by Jane Richey | Oct 25, 2013 | Politics
Senator Mike Lee upset former Senator Robert Bennett (R-UT) in the 2010 Utah Republican primary convention in the Tea Party’s first major primary win over a Republican establishment politician. Hatch told the Deseret News and KSL NewsRadio that...
by Jane Richey | Oct 22, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Congressional Democrats want Republicans to sign off on $50 billion worth of tax increases to eliminate the sequester’s automatic spending cuts. The next phase of these cuts will take effect Jan. 15, when government funding will drop from $986 billion to $967 billion....
by Jane Richey | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Health Care, Politics
Heritage Foundation: To hear Senators Harry Reid (D-NV) and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) tell it, America’s long national nightmare is over. Except…it’s not. Our national nightmare isn’t the government shutdown; it’s Obamacare. Congressional leaders have been...
by Jane Richey | Oct 16, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Still no resolution on continually raising debt ceiling in this Democrat-approved arrangement. US government needs to spend LESS money: The proposal would fund the government through Jan. 15, 2014, and put off the debt ceiling until Feb. 7, 2014, with the Treasury...
by Jane Richey | Oct 16, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The Senate approved a bill to reopen the government and avert default Wednesday night, 16 days into a government shutdown and a day before the Treasury Department’s debt limit deadline. The legislation, crafted by negotiations between the Senate’s two leaders,...
by Jane Richey | Oct 16, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Senate leaders jump-started negotiations over a compromise bill to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling late Tuesday after House Republicans’ efforts to pass their own alternative crumbled in embarrassing fashion for GOP leaders. Senate Majority Leader...
