…treated by the GOP at the time as inconsequential, as GOP stars claimed that “deficits don’t matter.” See Dick Cheney to Congressional Republicans: don’t stop spending, The Oregonian (July 18,…

…Prospects” (hat tip nathan) by Glenn Follette and Louise Sheiner looks at the model used by the Congressional Budgetary Office to estimate long term health care cost increases. Bear in…

…Gingrich and the Destruction of Congressional Expertise He adds “This is part and parcel with poll denialism, global warming denialism, and the general right wing disdain for facts and reality.”…

…Sahil Kapur reports on something that does not surprise me on two levels: The author of a Congressional Research Service study, who found no evidence that tax cuts for high…

I was looking for something else, but in the latest poll the ARRA has become popular http://www.pollingreport.com/budget.htm United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International….

…court first concluded that homosexuals are a discrete and insular minority that is entitled to heightened scrutiny. Turning to the rationales suggested by the Congressional intervenors to support the law,…

…studies.) An economy is one such organizational grouping of activity. A democracy is another. A “market” is only a labeling of activity. It is one of many relational activities within…

…the Constitution grants Congress, not the courts, the authority to determine what types of cases the lower federal courts have “subject-matter jurisdiction,” i.e., the legal authority, to hear. This congressional…

…Congressional Republicans Dave Camp (MI) and Orrin Hatch (Utah)suggesting that the New York Attorney General should not be seeking copies of federal returns from taxpayers but rather through the IRS,…

Jared Bernstein tells us yet again what the data has been telling us forever (my bold): I agree with Chye-Ching Huang, who agrees with the Congressional Research Service, Len Burman,…