Guest Blogger: Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) on Empowering Small Business
Small business is the backbone of our economy. They create new jobs, employ half of the private sector workforce, and represent 99.9% of the businesses… Read More
Guest Blogger: Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) on Reining in Government Spending
At a hearing in March I asked Secretary Tim Geithner whether the US was at risk for losing our AAA credit rating, as a Moody’s… Read More
SocietyNews
What Happened to This Missing Artwork?
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is hoping someone can help locate a young female constituent’s missing artwork. Hayley Chambers’ winning entry for the Congressional Art Competition… Read More
EconomyNews
Trump Backs Down on Rescinding $4 Billion in Foreign Aid
President Donald Trump has opted against a cost-cutting measure to cancel more than $4 billion in budgeted foreign assistance, much of which he previously deemed… Read More
SocietyNews
House Majority Leader Says Lawmakers Will Question FBI on Parkland ‘Failures’
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Tuesday that lawmakers will be looking into why law enforcement failed to act quickly in the Feb. 14… Read More
EconomyNews
Trump Wants a Short-Term Spending Package. Will Congress Back Him?
President-elect Donald Trump requested Congress pass a short-term spending bill to fund the government through March, according to reports. House Republican members are looking to… Read More
SecurityNews
Conservatives Aim to Block Obama’s Plan for More Refugees
As President Barack Obama used his final address before the United Nations General Assembly to urge world leaders to help protect refugees, Republicans in Congress threatened… Read More
Health CareNews
Obama Administration Moves Money to Fight Zika, Revealing Untapped Funding
The shifting of $81 million to combat Zika is overdue and demonstrates the Obama administration has had untapped resources to fight the mosquito-borne illness, House… Read More
Health CareNews
As Zika Spreads in US, Obama Holds Back on Available Funding
As mosquitoes seem to be spreading Zika inside the United States, the Obama administration has been sitting on some of the resources intended to fight… Read More
EconomyNews
House Conservatives Mull Budget ‘Trigger’ That Could Reduce Federal Spending
Conservatives are considering a budget compromise that would reduce spending by $30 billion unless the House is able to pass at least 10 appropriations bills…. Read More
PoliticsNews
House Republicans to Move Forward on Spending Without a Budget Number
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., just ended a civil war that has raged inside the chamber’s Republican conference for months. GOP leadership will not… Read More
EconomyNews
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Vows to Push Conservative Amendments to Spending Bills
The chairman of the House Freedom Caucus said Wednesday that Republicans should be able to put forth “conservative policy riders” to appropriation bills. “If we… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Republicans, Democrats Should Stop Asking for Energy Favoritism
An exchange Thursday in a House hearing illustrated what’s wrong with America’s energy policy. During the Department of Energy budget hearing Thursday, House Appropriations Chairman Hal… Read More
SocietyNews
House GOP Plots Attack on Obama Immigration Actions
House Republicans, bolstered by a bigger majority, are moving quickly to block President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. Acting on the party’s promise to confront… Read More
SocietyNews
Conservatives Warn of ‘Underreacting’ to Obama Immigration Decree
A day after President Obama announced he will reshape the immigration system on his own, conservative lawmakers, policy experts and pundits spoke out against what they… Read More
SocietyNews
Republicans Differ Over ‘Power of Purse’ to Stop Obama Immigration Action
Republicans in the House and Senate disagreed today over how best to use the “power of the purse” to block President Obama’s imminent executive action on… Read More
EconomyNews
Main House Foe of Export-Import Bank ‘Swallows Hard’ at 9-Month Reprieve
A leading congressional advocate for pulling the plug on the Export-Import Bank today said he “regrets” that a nine-month reauthorization of the federal agency is… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Five Most Troubling Things in Congress’ New Spending Bill
Yesterday evening, the House of Representatives released its stopgap spending measure which blindly continues the bloated spending in the January omnibus bill that included special-interest… Read More
EconomyNews
Senate, Obama Renew Push for Broad Internet Sales Tax
Before the August recess, the House easily passed a bill to renew, without limit, a longstanding ban on taxing access to the Internet. Now some… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Why Is Congress Again Using a Budget Process that Will Protect Ineffective Programs?
Last week, Senate Appropriations Chair Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Md., signaled her chamber already has begun to lay the groundwork for an omnibus budget bill in… Read More
Federal Spending in Action: House Releases Three Spending Bills for 2015
The House Appropriations Committee, headed by Hal Rogers (R–KY), has completed three drafts of the 12 annual spending bills and expects to bring two of… Read More
Memo to Congress: Capitulation on Sequestration Cuts Is a Path to Defeat
With current funding for government operations scheduled to run out March 27, the House is beginning work on another Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the… Read More
Hurricane Sandy Relief: An Early Opportunity for Budgeting
A good test of whether the 113th Congress is likely to take budgeting seriously will come early this week, when the House considers the remainder… Read More
Congressional Cybersecurity Funding Clarified
In an Issue Brief published yesterday, Heritage raised some questions about the wording of funding language in the continuing resolution (CR) pending before the House… Read More
Needless and Irresponsible Delays on Congressional Appropriations
After weeks of decent progress in advancing the fiscal year (FY) 2013 appropriations bills—the annual spending bills that finance the operations of government agencies—the process,… Read More
The Continuing Saga of the CR: Choking on Offsets
Although differences over the continuing resolution (CR) that failed in the Senate Friday seem absurdly small, the stakes may indeed be significant—and not just because… Read More
50 Examples of Government Waste
The Congressional Budget Office reported yesterday that the U.S. government ended its 2009 fiscal year with a deficit of $1.4 trillion, the biggest since 1945…. Read More
