Even Hateful Protests Are Protected, Free Speech Group Reminds Congress
Respecting free speech defends individual rights and lets people show us who they are.
Respecting free speech defends individual rights and lets people show us who they are.
Some, like Rep. Patrick McHenry (R–N.C.), advocate a more measured approach.
A fiscal commission might be a good idea, but it's also the ultimate expression of Congress' irresponsibility.
Servicing debt grows more expensive as the deadline to curb the spending spree gets closer.
A new GAO report details federal prosecutors' attempts to put the horse back in the barn.
Moody's calculates that interest payments on the national debt will consume over a quarter of federal tax revenue by 2033, up from just 9 percent last year.
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Lawmakers from Maryland and Virginia fought over which state should house the new site rather than whether the bureau even needs so many agents.
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In the last 50 years, when the budget process has been in place, Congress has managed only four times to pass a budget on time.
A federal lawsuit argues that it is time to reassess the Commerce Clause rationale for banning intrastate marijuana production and distribution.
The bipartisan Government Surveillance Reform Act would stop a lot of warrantless surveillance as a condition for renewal of Section 702 authorities.
The DAIRY PRIDE Act says it wants to protect consumers. In reality, it's trying to protect dairy farmers from economic competition.
The Bureau of Prisons released more than 12,000 people on home confinement during the pandemic. Three years later, Republicans want to overturn a Justice Department rule allowing those still serving sentences to stay home.
"The United States has about 20 years for corrective action after which no amount of future tax increases or spending cuts could avoid the government defaulting on its debt."
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The Democrat-controlled Senate meanwhile is proposing to expand the program.
The law makes it a felony to possess a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school, which covers the sidewalk in front of Gabriel Metcalf's house.
Amtrak has historically received $2 billion in federal subsidies each year. Under Republicans' "draconian" cuts, they'd receive over $5 billion next year.
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The federal budgeting process was broken long before Matt Gaetz and Kevin McCarthy's recent spat.
Years ago, when interest rates were low, calls for the federal government to exercise fiscal restraint were dismissed. That was unwise.
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Congress is being asked to borrow more money to fund broadband access and other pet projects. Only about $9 billion would be spent on natural disaster recovery efforts.
A debt commission won't solve any of the federal government's fiscal problems, but it's the first step towards taking them seriously.
Over the last several years, they have worked nonstop to ease the tax burden of their high-income constituents.
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Johnson is a relative newcomer to Congress who has never even chaired a committee, and he is a close ally of former President Donald Trump.
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The world's largest union of pilots says this requirement is necessary for safety and not unduly burdensome, but its data are misleadingly cherry-picked.
It's a maneuver that makes little fiscal, philosophical, or political sense, but thankfully it also seems unlikely to work.
Higher rates lead to more debt, and more debt begets higher rates, and on and on. Get the picture?
Cities are asking for federal zoning-reform dollars to pay for plans that might never pass.
As long as the Republican Party is a policy-free zone, Jordan might as well be the guy in charge.
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Well over half of those funds remain unspent, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
The Federal Reserve's higher interest rates were supposed to trigger changes to fiscal policy. So far, that hasn't happened.
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For a brief moment, some Republicans were arguing the disgraced and indicted President should be the next Speaker of the House.
We should all be skeptical that the same government that can't balance a budget can revamp the dominant form of modern communications and boost young people's self-esteem.
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On Friday, the Texas representative will introduce a resolution rebuking recent pushes to conduct military operations against Mexican cartels without Mexico’s consent or congressional authorization.
Those sounding the loudest alarms about possible shutdowns are largely silent when Congress ignores its own budgetary rules. All that seems to matter is that government is metaphorically funded.
(You don't really have to shut up, but here's my money.)
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