Speaker Boehner: What’s “Free Market” About the Farm Bill?
The latest House action on the $1 trillion farm bill comes straight from the playbook “Do as I Say, Not as I Do.” House Speaker… Read More
The latest House action on the $1 trillion farm bill comes straight from the playbook “Do as I Say, Not as I Do.” House Speaker… Read More
What you are about to read is not satire or parody. The farm bill pending in the U.S. House of Representatives authorizes a new tax… Read More
Whenever Congress throws too much into one bill, special interests profit. The massive farm bill—which is already 80 percent food stamps—is no exception. So what… Read More
A recent US News & World Report article set out to unveil the “facts” about food stamps. What are the so-called “facts”? For one, the… Read More
Senator Tom Coburn (R–OK) and others in Congress have repeatedly expressed concerns about “fragmentation, overlap, and duplication” in non-emergency food aid programs administered by the… Read More
Federal requirements for monitoring jobs data associated with President Obama’s stimulus package are insufficient to ensure that that the information is accurate, according to a… Read More
The Obama Administration fervently opposes state laws requiring voter identification to cast a ballot. But it is insisting that the nation’s farmers prove the identity… Read More
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will pay up to $50,000 each to female and Hispanic farmers and ranchers who claimed they were discouraged from applying… Read More
When does the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) say you should eat meat? It depends on the day. On July 23, the agency’s interoffice newsletter,… Read More
A stimulus program designed to create jobs by funding rural utility projects has created only about 12% of the jobs projected at the outset of… Read More