Super Secret Committee Snubs Transparency
Politico reported what many have feared about the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction in a story titled “Supercommittee operating in secret.” Members of this… Read More
Congress Should Scrap the Energy Loan and Loan Guarantee Programs
Senator Harry Reid (D–NV) and his Senate colleagues rejected the idea of cutting $1.5 billion unspent from a $7.5 billion advanced vehicle manufacturing technology loan… Read More
Morning Bell: How Harry Reid Manufactured a Crisis Over Disaster Aid
Listening to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) or reading The New York Times yesterday gave the impression that disaster relief victims were suffering from… Read More
The President’s “Debt Reduction”: $1.6 Trillion in Tax Hikes, Almost No Net Spending Reductions
During his Rose Garden speech Monday, the President claimed that his new “debt reduction” plan would provide $2 of spending cuts for every $1 of… Read More
Obama’s Attack on Big Oil: Fair Share or Targeted Tax Hike?
President Obama says he wants big corporations, including oil companies, to pay their “fair share” in taxes. His deficit reduction plan includes eliminating what he… Read More
How America’s Youth Can Fight Unemployment and U.S. Debt
According to a new poll issued by Generation Opportunity and The Polling Company, Inc./WomanTrend, America’s young adults are looking at a bleak future as the… Read More
Morning Bell: $1.5 Trillion in New Taxes
Two years ago, as the United States was coming out of the last recession, President Obama was asked how raising taxes on anyone would help… Read More
Heritage Responds to Obama’s Debt Reduction and Tax Proposal
Heritage’s experts watched President Barack Obama’s debt reduction and tax increase proposal. Here are their immediate reactions: Obama’s Plan Is More Bad News for Defense… Read More
VIDEO: Sen. Mike Lee Says Obama’s Jobs Plan Will Make Problem Worse
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) came to Washington as the a tea-party conservative with the goal of fixing the economy, addressing the debt crisis and curbing… Read More
Federally Funded Boulders for Nevada
Yesterday, I wrote about the House-passed bill H.R. 2887, which would reauthorize expiring aviation and surface transportation programs for a few months. Senator Tom Coburn… Read More
