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Sep 28 2012
Opinion
Government’s Proper Role in Creating Jobs: Top Five Actions to Take
America needs jobs. A government committed to free enterprise, limited government, and individual freedom, and not to more borrowing and spending, can properly help. To help unleash the private sector to invest and create jobs, Congress should promptly take five specific actions: enact the New Flat Tax, free America's energy resources, grant effective free trade negotiating authority, stop
The Heritage FoundationSep 27 2012
News
Wall Street braces for an Obama win
Mitt Romney was Wall Streets dream candidate, a former private equity executive committed to lower taxes and less regulation who would never rip bankers as “fat cats as President Barack Obama famously did. But now many masters of the universe concede they may not get their man.
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PoliticoMay 08 2024
Headline Roundup
How Should Lawmakers Address Social Security's Looming Insolvency?
How should lawmakers address the forecast depletion of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds?
For Context: The Medicare trust fund is projected to be depleted in 2036, and the Social Security trust fund is projected to be depleted in 2035.
“Looming Crisis”: The National Review Editorial Board (Right bias) treated the report as a warning, urging lawmakers to not draw the
Washington Post Newsweek National Review (Opinion)Jul 21 2020
News
Will Teachers’ Unions Reelect Trump?
The science says it’s safe to reopen PK-12 yet the unions insist on holding the children hostage.
During the next six weeks the nation’s 51 million public school students, with the assistance of their parents, would normally be preparing for the next phase of their education. This year, despite the absence of scientific data indicating that a return to in-person class attendance
The American SpectatorMar 27 2015
News
Boehner: Budget Helps Middle-Class Recover from Failed Obama Policies
The new GOP House budget is delivering new opportunities for middle-class families and small businesses to thrive in stark contrast to the president's proposed budget, said House Speaker John Boehner.
In a column for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Boehner said that the pro-growth balanced budget passed by the House this week will address the problem of spending under President Barack Obama
Newsmax (News)Mar 10 2020
News
Trump Floats Economic Stimulus in Response to Coronavirus
President Trump spoke after a trip where he spent time with two congressmen who were exposed to a person infected with the virus. His new chief of staff has also quarantined himself.
President Trump moved on Monday to address the economic effects of the widening coronavirus crisis by announcing that he would work with Congress on tax cuts and other measures after the worst stock market
New York Times (News)Jan 10 2016
News
Gas prices could drop toward $1 a gallon
In some gas stations around the country, the price of a gallon of regular has dropped below $1.42. AAA and GasBuddy, two organizations that follow gasoline prices, say that gasoline prices below $2 will not be unusual in most of the United States. As oil prices fall, and refinery capacity stays strong, the price of gas could reach $1 a gallon in some areas, a level last reached in 1999. As a
USA TODAYMar 12 2015
News
Powdered alcohol approved by federal agency
A powdered alcohol intended to be mixed up into drinks has gained approval from a federal regulator.
The product, called Palcohol, had received the greenlight from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau briefly last year before the bureau backtracked and said the label approvals had been given in error.
On Wednesday, bureau spokesman Tom Hogue told The Associated Press the
Fox News DigitalSep 06 2014
News
Issa responds to new round of lost IRS emails: ‘This pattern must stop’
The House’s top investigator expressed his growing frustration with the IRS’s level of cooperation in the probe of its tea party targeting scandal, labeling Friday’s revelation of more lost emails as part of a “pattern” that “must stop.”
Darrell Issa, chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman, called for Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special
Washington TimesMay 03 2019
News
Democrats ramp up pressure on Trump as Pelosi accuses Barr of 'crime'
Democrats intensified their pressure on President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday as U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused Attorney General William Barr of committing a crime by lying to lawmakers and a key committee chairman threatened to hold Barr in contempt of Congress.
Even as Democratic lawmakers accused the Trump administration of a growing attack on U.S. democracy
Reuters