…to use statistics to support the arguments, Democratic congressional candidates hopefully will be smart enough to mention the important statistics and discuss them. I expect that Elizabeth Warren will be…

…code is so complexeven those who write the law don’t understand all of it. Infact, few members of Congress prepare their annual tax returnsaccording to a survey by the congressional…

…Congressional Democrats when she announced she could change the program without Congress changing the empowering statute. There were attempts at CPR, but the program now appears to be really dead….

…of non-banks in our system. Of course the issues are ongoing today: Angry Bear post 2009 Elizabeth Warren of the Congressional Oversight Committee for TARP, and champion of an active…

…at the annualized rate of change of this version of the tax burden for each Congressional administration from 1952 to 2008. Here’s what we found: Figure 3. As Figure 3…

…the only one so far striking down the mandate. The decision, from a divided three-judge panel, said the mandate overstepped Congressional authority and could not be justified by the constitutional…

…harm’s way. And there’s plenty to cut, thanks to McKeon and his congressional cohort. This spring, they preserved defense earmarks after vowing that they wouldn’t; voted to make more Humvees…

…movement has already changed the public debate in America. Consider, for example, last week’s Congressional Budget Office report on widening disparities of income in America. It was hardly news –…

…does on the rich. In fact, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates, families near the middle of the income distribution pay almost twice as much in payroll taxes as in…

…there was a broad process of Congressional review, resulting in the 1986 tax reform act that eliminated (for a very short time, as it turned out) the category distinction between…