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Since fiscal year 1997, the East-West Center has received 11 earmarks totaling $109.7 million....

...the greatest defense of liberty is an informed citizenry....

...a handful of senators are working hard to make sure the government stays in the housing finance business....

This study analyzes the effects of the resulting changes at the individual employee level ....

...an unholy union of big government, big business, and big special interests twists public policy to benefit Washington insiders....

"Congress needs to follow up on this presidential trip by passing trade promotion authority to conclude a free-trade agreement across Asia and the Pacific”

...what if America had never been founded?...

...how your hard-earned money helps subsidize loans for people in other countries....

...the lack of meaningful competition between political parties can be stifling to new ideas, regardless of the underlying ideology....

Here’s a disturbing new idea from some members of Congress....

Since 1980, men's wages have risen only by 6 percent, while women's wages have risen by 60 percent....

Fannie and Freddie have received billions in subsidies, but the homeownership rate is only 1 percentage point higher than it was in 1968....

The Atlantic Cities magazine published a condensed analysis of seven main reasons that explain why U.S infrastructure project cost more than elsewhere....

Regulation: It’s a mostly hidden drain on the economy....

Sen. Paul spoke about his class-action lawsuit against the Obama administration and the National Security Agency....

...the housing entities’ “profits paid to the Treasury in 2013 alone have resulted in federal spending and deficits being underreported by more than $100 billion....

It was 225 years ago that the Constitution officially came into effect, when members of Congress were sworn in for the first time in New York City....

...Heritage experts dive into President Obama’s new budget proposal....

“America’s greatness is found in its individuals, not in the collective....”

In Washington, facts can sometimes be stubborn things. I guess that’s why some media pundits thought my comments at a governors’ association meeting last Monday—which highlighted the slow growth and failed economic policies of our President—impolitic or impolite.....

"...send me legislation that protects taxpayers from footing the bill for a housing crisis ever again...."

What a contrast to President Barack Obama’s “I can do whatever I want” attitude ....

"The biggest problems that we’re facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that’s what I intend to reverse when I’m President of the United States of America." -- Sen Barack Obama, 2008

Obama, after less than five years in office, has already increased the debt limit by more than any other president in U.S. history....

Congress got tired of fighting. So now they’re working toward doing away with the debt limit altogether....

This happens multiple times a year now with Congress on the debt limit, which we just hit again on Saturday....

President Obama can’t be trusted to enforce U.S. laws—and that makes many lawmakers hesitant to pass new immigration laws....

By the end of the week, we’ll be hitting the debt ceiling again.....

We found no small irony in Gabbard quickly taking the seat Faleomavaega waited years to earn....

...the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a new estimate: Obamacare will cause the equivalent of 2.3 million people to stop working.....

The federal government will reimburse insurers for 50 percent of any losses through the "risk corridors" in the Affordable Care Act....

Faleomavaega was one of Obama’s earliest backers while then Gov. Togiola Tulafono endorsed then-Sen. Clinton....

House Republicans say they are ready to move forward with an immigration reform plan....

President Obama says this is a “year of action”—and last night he made it very clear whose action he was talking about....

...after five years of promises, what do we have to show for it?....

Let’s make this a year of action....

As every middle school student is taught, the legislative branch makes laws, as the executive branch executes those laws....

...NOAA has quietly elevated its tsunami warning center in Alaska by relegating its Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii to secondary status....

... National Journal has published an article titled “How Lobbyists Still Fly Through Loopholes” and it should not surprise anyone that our South Pacific flyboy is among the Members of Congress featured....

...high-income and low-income filers had large tax expenditures, while middle-income taxpayers had smaller expenditures....

Bumble Bee chief executive Chris Lischewski has called untrue the Delegate’s assertion that Bumble Bee tuna is processed by child labor....