by Jane Richey | Jan 15, 2014 | Fiscal Responsibility
Advocates for military retirees have been pressuring lawmakers to stop the planned cuts to veterans’ pensions from going into effect this year. But a new spending deal announced in Congress this week would leave 90 percent of those cuts in place, according to one...
by Jane Richey | Jan 31, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Responding to House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s warning that if the federal government continues to run annual $1 trillion deficits we will eventually face a debt crisis, liberal economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said Wednesday that that is not...
by Jane Richey | Jan 1, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The House voted late Tuesday evening, in a rare holiday session, to pass a fiscal cliff bill brokered without the involvement of the GOP majority and with far less than half of their votes. The bill (HR 8) was amended by the Senate in the early morning hours on an...
by Jane Richey | Dec 4, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
From the Heritage Foundation: When President Obama put forth his first offer on the fiscal cliff, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said, “You can’t be serious.” We could say the same thing to the Speaker after his counteroffer yesterday. In a letter signed by House...
by Jane Richey | May 21, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The House-passed line-item veto bill, which has been endorsed by the White House, is on life support in the Democratic-controlled Senate. More than four months after the House approved the measure, co-sponsored by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and...
