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Geithner as Buzz Lightyear on National Debt: To Infinity, and Beyond
President Obama's Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has embraced the “Buzz Lightyear” debt strategy to overcome the fiscal crisis known as the “fiscal cliff”:...
House Committee Investigates EPA’s Secret E-mail Accounts
Citing “a pattern of behavior directed at subverting transparency,” the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is requesting information from Environmental Protection...
Read moreCBO: Balancing the Budget Is “Formidable” Task
The Congressional Budget Office's latest offering of suggestions on how to cut the deficit falls far short of what is needed and admits...
Read moreSen. Coburn’s Report Exposes DOD’s Wasteful, Non-Defense Spending
Following his office’s publishing of his annual Wastebook last month, Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has now released another oversight report, this one exploring waste...
Read moreIn Farewell, Ron Paul Offers Hope Despite Looming Economic Implosion
After spending more than two decades in Congress vigorously standing up for liberty, peace, sound money, free markets, and the U.S. Constitution, Rep....
Read moreLatest CBO Report All But Guarantees Gridlock Over the Fiscal Cliff
In its latest 14-page report on the impact the “fiscal cliff” would have on the economy in 2013 and beyond, the non-partisan Congressional Budget...
Read moreMore LOST Opponents Coming to Senate — but Will They Be Too Late?
Opponents of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) should be encouraged by the outcome of Tuesday’s Senate elections, according to Patrick Goodenough...
Read moreDebt Ceiling Likely to be Raised Without Fanfare This Time
Although the Treasury warned that government borrowing would hit the debt ceiling before the end of the year, it also said it would...
Read moreTaxmageddon Only Part of the Problem
The Heritage Foundation's calculations of Taxmageddon's impact on American taxpayers is only one of four impending disasters ready to hit on midnight, December...
Read moreRep. Issa Issues Subpoena for HHS Documents
According to Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, there are indications that a federal program is being used to bolster President Obama’s election chances by...
Read moreThe Fiscal Cliff, the Fiscal Gap, and the Lame Duck Congress
Private congressional conversations about how to keep the country from racing off the fiscal cliff in January are already taking place in Washington,...
Read moreHow Do Your Congressmen Vote? Check Out the Freedom Index.
With all the hoopla and media attention now being devoted presidential politics, it would be easy to overlook the importance of Congress, which...
Read moreSenator Coburn’s “Wastebook 2012” Names Biggest Waste: Congress
For each of the past three years, Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has published his annual Wastebook, and each year the press has had a...
Read moreReid Seeks Federal Online Gambling Law
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada is trying to get Congress, after the November elections, to pass into law language that would...
Read moreSen. Lee Thwarts Sneak Attempt to Pass UN Disability Treaty
Those concerned about U.S. sovereignty have worried that Democrats would try to ram certain UN agreements — the Law of the Sea Treaty...
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