by Jane Richey | May 17, 2012 | Politics
House Republicans pressed an administration official Wednesday to take a harder line with China on opening its markets to the United States. At a House Financial Services subcommittee hearing, multiple GOP lawmakers expressed frustration at the fact that China has not...
by Jane Richey | May 17, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, in Denver on Wednesday, called on Congress to act on extending clean-energy tax credits, which he said will help American companies create jobs and produce clean, renewable power. “America can’t afford to miss out on...
by Jane Richey | May 17, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility
As President Barack Obama’s budget was poised to fail overwhelmingly in the Senate for the second year, the White House dismissed the vote entirely as a gimmick. Already, Obama’s $3.6 trillion tax and spending plan for fiscal year 2013 was defeated in the House by a...
by Jane Richey | May 17, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
In the last four years, there was a 6-fold increase in the number of Americans over 55 who had been unemployed for 6 months or longer, a federal auditor told CNSNews.com. With this increasing number of older workers experiencing long-term unemployment, concerns are...
by Jane Richey | May 17, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
Ahead of the G8 summit in Camp David on Friday, a group of United Nations human rights “experts” are throwing their weight behind a longstanding campaign for a so-called “Robin Hood tax” on international financial transactions. In a statement issued in Geneva – home...