by Jane Richey | Apr 19, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The Obama administration on Wednesday stated for the first time that the president will not sign any 2013 spending bills until the House abandons the spending levels in Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget. That budget cuts spending next year by $19 billion compared to the August...
by Jane Richey | Mar 28, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
A liberal coalition against Gov. Tom Corbett’s budget plan told lawmakers that plugging loopholes and tax breaks would “grow the pie” of state government, but economists and business groups said Pennsylvania should grow the private sector. Better Choices for...
by Jane Richey | Mar 28, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
While Washington’s eyes are focused on the historic Obamacare hearings at the Supreme Court, work continues across the street in the House of Representatives where some Members of Congress — though not all — are doing their best to clean up Washington’s budgetary...
by Jane Richey | Mar 23, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan warned lawmakers today of potentially dire ramifications if the budget blueprint put forth earlier this week by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., were to become law. “We could see disastrous consequences for America’s children...
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....