…patent monopolies got expanded from 17 to 20 years in 1994 when Congress OK’d U.S. WTO accession, overruling decades of congressional opposition to such patent extensions and costing us billions…

…a complete answer. Several additional components should be addressed, by a combination of Congressional and state legislative action and regulating agencies. And actions to limit the size of corporations would…

…debt, and balancing gets you there faster,” said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former director of the Congressional Budget Office and a prominent Republican economist. “That’s paramount.” He said a balanced budget…

…million). In sum, $557 million could be cut from investor protection programs, barring Congressional intervention. For more, see Appendix A of the Office of Management and Budget report issued September…

…not win the Civil War. Sort of like the Tea Party congressional delegation’s decision to deny the result of last November’s election, but with no near-term reversal possible in 2014….

…in, say, House races in predominantly black Congressional and state-legislative districts; where the outcome of the state’s electoral college presence in presidential elections has not been in doubt for decades;…

…the deficit by increasing taxes, though due to the quirks of congressional districts, they didn’t get one. He ends his post by saying: Here in DC, we can get a…

…apparent resistance to mentioning–early, often, or ever–specific other countries’ successes or failures that illustrate the point. But there’s no time like the present for him and the congressional Dems to…

…a warning about Obama’s and the congressional Democrats’ plans to have the government dominate the economy. So I’d like some specifics. What policies and programs, current and proposed, does he…

…Republican congressional districts and red states with Senate elections next year are not necessarily going to want to hand a box of matches to lunatics and mental adolescents, now that…