Budget stances
…House-Senate conference committee will attempt to come up with a plan that will set a new long term template to replaced the 10 years of mandated sequestered spending cuts that…
…House-Senate conference committee will attempt to come up with a plan that will set a new long term template to replaced the 10 years of mandated sequestered spending cuts that…
…legislative history. In July 2009 the three House Committees with jurisdiction all passed the same Bill out of Committee, which bill, whose lead author was John Dingell came known as…
…creating a dynamic rarely seen in the debate over ObamaCare. Adding to the irregularity, exits on the Republican side at a subcommittee hearing led by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) allowed…
…to Timothy Geithner, who declined; Timothy Geithner! Seriously!—three members of Senate Banking Committee told Obama that they would vote against Summers’ confirmation. Those three members effectively nominated Janet Yellin, by…
…and his version of “Big Brother”. The United States has a long history of spying on its citizens. The revelations of the U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations…
Via CBS news Mark Thoma addresses some coming issues in Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Tax Committee in Do tax cuts pay for themselves? Now that Republicans have taken…
…I note that I had argued that the US problem was that the Fed Open Market Committee couldn’t signal policy to be implemented after the terms of current committee members…
…violation of the Federal Sunshine Act, the commission gang of seven met with Congressmen Jeff Miller and Paul Ryan. Congressman Jeff Miller is the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee chairman and…
…it from a primary source that Assar Lindbeck, the committee’s dominant figure then, once said that if either Joan Robinson or James Buchanan got it, it would be over his…
…candidate or candidate’s committee. Contributions or gifts to the Democratic National Committee are not tax deductible. There is, I believe, no way that the Clinton campaign would have my email…