by Jane Richey | Jan 19, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Leaders of the most conservative bloc in the House Republican Conference are backing leadership’s plan to increase the debt ceiling for three months, even though the increase has no concrete spending cuts attached to it. In exchange, conservatives have won assurances...
by Jane Richey | Nov 30, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Health Care, Politics
Today, Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Jordan issued the following statement highlighting the $1.058 trillion in higher taxes coming from ObamaCare over the next ten years. Many of the tax increases take effect on January 1, 2013: “ObamaCare raises taxes...
by Jane Richey | May 16, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
A new Club for Growth report based on its 2011 congressional voting scorecard shows that freshmen House Republicans received an average score of 71 percent — only 2-percentage points higher than the average for House GOP veterans. A majority of so-called tea party...
by Jane Richey | Mar 28, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
While Washington’s eyes are focused on the historic Obamacare hearings at the Supreme Court, work continues across the street in the House of Representatives where some Members of Congress — though not all — are doing their best to clean up Washington’s budgetary...