This quote is from Tom Coburn’s editorial in the Washington Post. The editorial is about why the Gang of Six failed and what the US needs to do to get beyond the crisis being brought on by unsustainable deficit spending. In the...
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Eye opening stats on unintended pregnancies from a new study reported on by Kaiser this morning: “They found that rates of unintended pregnancy are far higher among poor and near-poor women (those with incomes under twice the federal poverty level) than those...
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What a relief we finally got around to cutting the budget right? Congress and the President say we reduced the budget by $38.5 billion so that means we will be spending $38.5 billion less in 2011 right? The answer – no not...
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The agreed to cuts are about $34 – 37 billion. The poor lawmakers were up until 3am trying to get this done. They are scheduled to get back together again at 8am to give it one last attempt. The main holdup seems...
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There may be movement in the budget battles. Politco’s story this morning makes it sound like Democrats and Republicans are close to a deal on 2011. Republicans are looking to the 2012 budget that they will announce in three weeks to make...
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The US Government is funded through April 8! It took a bipartisan effort to pass the bill so I guess we should be patting Congress on the back for working together. Both Republicans and Democrats are starting to send signals that the...
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The Continuing Resolution to fund the government through April 8th which was agreed to last week passed the House today on a bipartisan basis. (See my post from 3/12/11) But there might be signs of a coming thaw in the budget battles. More...
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No new news except that some conservatives are getting tired of the stopgap Continuing Resolutions and would like to get through 2011 and move on to 2012. Great idea guys! Let’s get this over with. Here’s a link to Politico’s story. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51209.html...
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