Inappropriate for Appropriations Bills (and Other Bills, Too)
This session, Congress has consistently increased criminal penalties through legislation. In what type of bills are they doing it? In appropriations bills, of course. Where… Read More
Another Temporary Budget Deal: Don’t Blame a “Broken” Process
The stopgap spending agreement reached by House and Senate leaders may be the only way Congress will escape a post-election “lame duck” showdown over funding… Read More
Sluggish Economic Growth: More Reason to Renounce Tax Hikes
On the afternoon of another discouraging assessment of the nation’s economic growth, the Obama Administration late Friday quietly released its mid-year update of the budget…. Read More
Budget Battle Made Simple
Understanding what Washington is up to is as simple as one-two-three: 1. Unacceptable Choices Under President Obama’s leadership, Americans have been presented two unacceptable choices…. 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
A Billion Here, a Billion There: The State Department’s Wacky Budget Process
Even by U.S. government standards (not a high one these days), the State Department’s budget process is a mess. In almost every budget cycle, billions… Read More
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Congress Must Address Both Defense Sequestration and Deficits
Earlier this week, the Obama White House criticized Members of Congress for examining the effects of the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts scheduled to… Read More
Ten Years of Homeland Security Oversight: Time for Reform
Ten years ago today, the House created a 13-member Select Committee on Homeland Security. The decision seemingly made a good deal of sense. With the… Read More
Farm Bill: Bumper Crop of Food Stamps
The farm bill pending in the Senate has a bumper crop of food stamps. The bill, S.3240 (the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act), should… Read More
The Truth about President Obama’s Skyrocketing Spending
Spending has skyrocketed under President Obama, but of late some are claiming that the opposite is true. Case in point: MarketWatch columnist Rex Nutting wrote,… Read More
Setting Obama’s “Great Fiscal Restraint Record” Straight
The Obama Administration is piggybacking on claims made by MarketWatch’s Rex Nutting that Obama has not gone on the spending spree everyone thinks he has… Read More
Medicare at Risk: Visualizing the Need for Reform
Medicare at Risk: Visualizing the Need for Reform View more presentations from The Heritage Foundation Heritage’s new chart series, “Medicare at Risk: Visualizing the Need… Read More
Online Chat about the Different Budgets
Click here to join us right now for our “Lunch with Heritage” live online chat. We are joined by the Director of Heritage’s Center for… Read More
Morning Bell: A Glimmer of Hope for the American Dream
Yesterday in the Senate, America bore witness to the glaringly obvious division in Washington, as stark as the contrast between high noon in the desert… Read More
Morning Bell: The Lee Plan Offers a Clear Choice for Americans
Fellow Americans: It has been over three years (1,111 days to be precise) since the U.S. Senate last passed a budget. The last time Senate… Read More
Morning Bell: Will Congress Defend Our Military?
It’s one thing to talk a good game about cutting spending, but it’s quite another thing to actually do something about it. This week, the… Read More
Side Effects: Employees Lose Insurance and Taxpayers get the Bill Under Obamacare
The House Ways and Means Committee just released a report that shows that the most successful companies would save billions of dollars if they stopped… Read More
Morning Bell: America’s Budget Crisis in Pictures
It’s pretty clear to most Americans that Washington is broken and spending money well beyond the country’s means. In fact, Sunday marked three years since… Read More
Federal Budget in Pictures Shows America’s Spending and Debt Crises
April 29 marks the third year that the U.S. Senate has not passed a budget. Now more than ever, it is crucial that Americans understand… Read More
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Morning Bell: What’s the Senate Thinking?
April 29 marks the third year in which the U.S. Senate has not passed a budget — a staggering dereliction of duty, particularly given the… Read More
What Young Americans Should Really Fear
Over the past week, President Obama has been on the road making an appeal to young Americans, offering a sales pitch on lower interest rates… Read More
Morning Bell: The Bloated Government of America
The General Services Administration blew through $820,000 in taxpayers’ money in a lavish “team building” trip to Las Vegas, and President Barack Obama is “apoplectic” at… Read More
Chairman Conrad’s Embarrassing Quasi-Budget
The Senate Budget Committee stretched a few definitions in announcing yesterday’s “Mark-Up of the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2013.” Turns out… Read More
Morning Bell: The Governing Class and Us
In a speech yesterday in Elyria, Ohio — a small town just outside Cleveland sitting at the forks of the Black River — President Barack… Read More
New Research Confirms that Spending Cuts Stimulate the Economy
New research suggests that legislators should cut spending and enact growth-inducing policies. The reasoning? According to the study, spending cuts can positively affect economic growth… Read More
Premium Support Proposals: Key Elements and a Comparison
A new poll by Reason-Rupe shows that Americans support the structural reform of a premium support model for Medicare. The current Medicare program has made… Read More
Got Principles? The Ryan Budget Does
Buried deep in the President’s hyperbolic assault on the House-passed budget last week—with all that “radical vision” and “social Darwinism” rhetoric—was one kernel of truth:… Read More
The Buffett Rule is a Calculated Distraction from Obama’s Failed Leadership
What do you do when you’re losing a debate? Change the subject. That’s really all you need to know to understand President Obama’s resuscitation of… Read More
Head Start: President’s Scaremongering Won’t Work
On Tuesday, President Obama criticized Representative Paul Ryan’s (R–WI) budget proposal as making “draconian cuts” to federal spending programs. In particular, the President said, “If… Read More
Senate Has an Un-Budget, Parliamentarian Rules
Hats off to the Senate parliamentarian, who apparently has rebuffed the Democratic leadership’s latest excuse for failing to bring a budget to the floor—something the… Read More
