Romina Boccia focuses on federal spending and the national debt as director of the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation. Read her research.
View all authors
After budget-stricken Spain eliminated subsidies for new renewable energy this year, Germany is now following the example by making significant cuts to its solar subsidy… Read More
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a new rule to regulate CO2 emissions from power plants, which would effectively ban new coal power plants, as… Read More
When it comes to finding alternate pathways to force their green agenda onto Americans, President Obama and his Administration know how to dream up creative… Read More
The Obama Administration voiced its support Monday regarding TransCanada Corporation’s plans to construct the interstate portion of the Keystone XL pipeline that does not require… Read More
Democrats are urging President Obama to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to avert “potential danger to the economy” and improve “the [P]resident’s reelection chances,”… Read More
The Hill reports that a bipartisan group of Senators is urging lawmakers to extend the wind energy production tax credit, which is scheduled to expire… Read More
With debt and spending out of control, the good news is that the House Budget Committee is taking important steps toward focusing Congress on its… Read More
The U.S. coal industry is facing a grim outlook in 2012, and the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) pollution rules are one big reason. The Mercury… Read More
At this State of the Union address, President Obama proudly stated that “American oil production is the highest it’s been in eight years” and declared… Read More
Leading up to his third State of the Union (SOTU) address tonight, President Obama appears once again less interested in facilitating real job growth than… Read More
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is on a mission to further unilaterally expand its already vast regulatory powers in the name of “sustainable development.” Congress… Read More
Another year, another hopeless climate talk. This time, the annual U.N. climate change summit is taking place in Durban, South Africa. It looks painfully like… Read More
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), seemingly undeterred by the slow economic recovery, is marching ahead with air pollution regulations that would increase electricity prices, raise… Read More
Camping out for nearly a month, yelling, chanting, and painting signs is apparently some people’s idea of a good time. But given all this time… Read More
Social Security is currently unsustainable. It began running deficits in 2010 and its trust fund will be exhausted by 2036, which is when seniors will… Read More
“The late great Austrian economist F.A. Hayek would have seen the Arab Spring for the economic revolt it was right from the start,” writes Hoover… Read More
While the rest of the country talks about the urgent need to reduce the crushing debt burden and get the U.S. fiscal house in order,… Read More
This week’s disappointing news on the progress of the economic recovery has some Democrats and their allies yearning for more fiscal “stimulus.” But continuing the… Read More
In response to OPEC’s inability to come to agreement on boosting oil production, the White House indicated that it would not shy away from tapping… Read More
Ethanol subsidies that are set to expire at the end of this year continue to lose support among the public and in Congress. King Corn,… Read More
People often remember the entire decade of the ’90s as a period of robust economic growth. Economic growth was so impressive in the latter half… Read More
Now that the U.S. hit its $14.3 trillion debt ceiling on May 16 and the doomsday predictions of the financial apocalypse that was going to… Read More
