by Jane Richey | Jul 1, 2012 | Politics
. . . voting on bills they never read. Senator Rand Paul gave a scathing rebuke of Senators on Friday voting on bills that they have yet to read. As evidence of what he was saying, he held up a what looked like an entire ream of paper and declared, “For goodness...
by Jane Richey | May 14, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
It has been over three years (1,111 days to be precise) since the U.S. Senate last passed a budget. The last time Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) fulfilled his legal responsibility, Conan was still on NBC, Tea Parties hadn’t come together and the iPad hadn’t...
by Jane Richey | May 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Sunday marked the three-year anniversary since the Senate last passed a budget. April 29 was the record 1,096th day without a federal budget since passing a budget was required by law in 1974. Normally, each house of Congress passes its own budget, reconciles the...
by Jane Richey | Apr 30, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility
Citizens Against Government Waste “Pig Book” is now available. The Congressional Pig Book is CAGW’s annual compilation of the pork-barrel projects in the federal budget. A “pork” project is a line-item in an appropriations bill that...
by Jane Richey | Apr 25, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility
April 29 marks the third year in which the U.S. Senate has not passed a budget — a staggering dereliction of duty, particularly given the country’s near-$16 trillion debt. But that’s not the Senate’s only blockbuster failure under the leadership of Majority Leader...
