Why the Numbers Dont Tell the Whole Story
While cuts to foreign aid were very popular (73 percent supported them) and about half the respondents said the Pentagon budget should be reduced, very few people wanted Social Security or Medicare touched
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While cuts to foreign aid were very popular (73 percent supported them) and about half the respondents said the Pentagon budget should be reduced, very few people wanted Social Security or Medicare touched
“In our view, these joint fundraising committees should be barred,” said Fred Wertheimer, President of Democracy 21.
By not allowing his administration to hire registered lobbyists for political posts (without the occasional waiver), he has denied himself, and the country, access to some of the best and brightest
The former Massachusetts governor performed poorly in two key early states with substantial evangelical populations, Iowa and South Carolina, and he must either change that or build a successful effort without
The standards of the House should be much higher.
Bennett added that Bruce “is a lady of tremendous ability, tremendous experience, and … they should give her a lot of authority and get the job done.”
So should this bill be dismissed as just another partisan maneuver by GOP Members to demonstrate to their constituencies that they take their “mandate” seriously?
Several Republican aides said that without Democrats coming on board, they have no plans to push a Social Security reform bill through the House.
Vast improvements can and should be made to presidential succession by statute, without altering the Constitution.
For example, we don’t think you should be able to repeal health care for your constituents and keep it for yourself.”
You can create a bubble of alert adults around your children without your children being aware of it or being unnecessarily frightened.
“Everyone should release the raw data,” Daily Kos publisher and founder Markos Moulitsas told Roll Call in an e-mail.
The fourth dumb idea is the plan by Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) to kill the presidential public financing system — without providing any evidence or holding
Republicans and Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee continued their public disagreement over how the panel should operate with ranking member Elijah Cummings leading all of
It should challenge us.
She said that without the money, the theater would still be closed and wouldn’t be celebrating its 80th anniversary next month.
class="p3"> “The $100 billion is the number that the American people heard, I think, last fall, and frankly when you are looking at it in the context that there was a $14 trillion debt, it seems to me we should
Washington, D.C., is a town where memories fade fast, so it should not be surprising that the question is sometimes asked, “Who was Richard Russell?”
“Every dollar should be on the table” for cuts, Cantor said, including defense and entitlement spending.
Why should Members of Congress have a very opaque process put in place where the COLA happens without any vote?” Matheson asked.