by Jane Richey | Feb 15, 2013 | Health Care
Senate Republicans reintroduced a bill Thursday to repeal the controversial cost-cutting board in President Obama’s healthcare law. The bill, sponsored by 30 Republican senators including John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), would repeal the...
by Jane Richey | Dec 22, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
There will be no “regulatory tsunami” from President Obama’s administration next year, the White House budget office insisted on Friday. The claim came as the Office of Management and Budget released its annual regulatory agenda, which sets regulatory priorities for...
by Jane Richey | Jul 21, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) is questioning the Obama administration’s authority to immediately provide federal firefighters with health insurance. In a letter Friday, Coburn asked the Office of Personal Management (OPM) to defend the decision with a legal analysis...
by Jane Richey | Jul 21, 2012 | Free Markets, Politics
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s most powerful business group, upped its lobbying spending in the first half of 2012. The Chamber and the affiliated Institute for Legal Reform spent $55 million on lobbying in the first half of 2012, compared to approximately...
by Jane Richey | Apr 14, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
Whether a politician’s words constitute a flagrant faux pas or innocent slip of the tongue often depends on the offender’s party affiliation. Democrats can commit untimely gaffes with relative impunity. But for Republicans to utter supposed misstatements...