by Jane Richey | Dec 28, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
n one of its last actions of the year, the United Nations General Assembly on Christmas Eve agreed to extend for another three years the formula that has U.S. taxpayers contributing more than one-fifth of the world body’s regular budget. No member-state called for a...
by Jane Richey | Aug 10, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The Senate Budget Committee Republican staff under Ranking Member Jeff Sessions (R-AL) on Friday released the following chart: Click here to see the chart. As the chart clearly shows, it has been a full 1,200 days and $5 trillion in new debt since the...
by Jane Richey | Jul 23, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Republican Governor Tom Corbett certainly can’t be accused of being a big spender. The 2011 budget he signed into law cut more than $1 billion in state spending, reducing funding for nearly every state department. This year’s budget, finalized last month,...
by Jane Richey | Jul 1, 2012 | Politics
. . . voting on bills they never read. Senator Rand Paul gave a scathing rebuke of Senators on Friday voting on bills that they have yet to read. As evidence of what he was saying, he held up a what looked like an entire ream of paper and declared, “For goodness...
by Jane Richey | May 14, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
It has been over three years (1,111 days to be precise) since the U.S. Senate last passed a budget. The last time Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) fulfilled his legal responsibility, Conan was still on NBC, Tea Parties hadn’t come together and the iPad hadn’t...