Hill Update for Friday
BUDGET Just looking through the budget preview a number of concerns pop up. On page 127 assumes $190 million in savings over 10 years by expanding availability of family planning services under...
View ArticleBacon & Links
Here’s what we are reading today. “Barack Obama’s America,” Alexis de Tocqueville, The Weekly Standard (March 9, 2009) “Pelosi’s list: Who’s on her bad side?,” Glenn Thrush, The Politico (March 2,...
View ArticleDemocrats on Obama’s budget a “moral document” and “a statement of priorities”
To quote the FRC alert on the matter, in the midst of these tough economic times, President Obama has found a unique source of revenue: wounded veterans. The President’s budget proposes forcing...
View ArticleStealing the Poor Box to Save It
President Obama’s own comments on his taxing of charitable giving was unapologetic at his press conference: “I’ll tell you what has a significant impact on charitable giving, is a financial crisis in...
View ArticleUpdate on President Obama Going After Charitable Giving
While President Obama says of his plan of taxing donations to charities at a higher rate that “there’s very little evidence that this has a significant impact on charitable giving” a report from the...
View ArticleHill Update: Koh-ed and Not So Sweet Charity
Appropriations 10:30 a.m. May 12, 192 Dirksen Bldg., Subcommittee Hearing Senate Defense Subcommittee of Senate Appropriations Committee will hold hearings on proposed fiscal 2010 appropriations for...
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Cash for Clowns
Heritage has some good points here against continuing the “cash for clunkers” program.” Bascially it does nothing for the environment, hurts families, hurts the free market system and hurts charites by...
View ArticleHill Update Wrap Up: New Bills, Hearings and More
LEGISLATION Transparency Congressman Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) has introduced H.R. 1061, the Federal Agency Transparency Act, which would require federal agencies to publish receipts and expenditures...
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