05/14/18
The Joint Select Committee on Budge and Appropriations Process Reform is a representative sample of participants in the congressional budget process; expect some fine-tuning of the current rules but no more. Read More...Tags: Joint Select Committe re budget process, Bipartisan Budget Act, Senate filibuster rule, Citizens Against Government Waste, Heritage Foundation, Martha Coven, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Rep. Steve Womack, Rep. Nita Lowey, Mick Mulvaney, Sen. David Perdue, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Rep. Jodey Arrington, Rep. John Yarmuth, Sen. Jodi Ernst, Sen. Michael Bennet, Rep. Bob Woodall, Rep. Derek Kilmer, Sen. James Lankford, Sen. Brian Schatz, Sen. Roy Blunt, Rep. Pete Sessions, Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, Sen. Mazie Hiron
01/15/18
Far from taking leadership of the impasse over spending levels, the current majority party is allowing their political opponents to determine what items will be discussed and in what order. This will not end well. Read More...Tags: earmarks, drain the swamp, Sen. Tom Coburn, bridge to nowhere, Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Harry Reid, Citizens Against Government Waste, Pig Book, Prime Cuts , DACA Program, Michael Wolff, Wolf Blitzer, White House director of legislative affairs Marc Sbort, Sen. Dick Durbin, Sen Chuck Schumer, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen. Jeff Flake, Sen. Corry Gardner, Sen. Michael Bennet, Sen. Robert Menendez, chain migration, Diversity Visa Lottery, Rep. Steny Hoyer