As our leaders on Capitol Hill debate health care and the implications of Senator Baucus' health care reform bill, our nation's economy continues to suffer and some on Capitol Hill are discussing the jobs situation behind the scenes. NBC's First Read reported yesterday that "For the...
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John Hanlon
on 10-09-2009
Filed under: stimulus package, stimulus, John Hanlon
Unlike our President and many of our representatives in Congress, I've tried to read the 1000+ page health care bill a few times this week. As a lawyer, I'm used to dealing with tedious and confusing legal jargon, yet this monolithic bill is still too hard for me to understand. It proposes drastic...
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Despina Karras
on 07-22-2009
Filed under: free market, stimulus package, stimulus, universal health care, Heritage Foundation, insurance, economics, federal government, health care benefits, health care tax, "the demands of this moment", health care reform, deadlines
Every Monday I look into the money that Congress spent over the past week, and from time to time I look into the money the House of Representatives plans on appropriating for the future. Today, however, I wanted to look back at how some of the money already appropriated is being spent, once again highlighting...
Unemployment is at the highest it's been in decades, the American people are hurting. Here comes President Obama's stimulus package to the rescue . . . with a $4 million project to add a bike and pedestrian path to a bridge? You read that correct, the Kansas City Star reports this planned project...