In addition to preventing deficit reforms to eliminate wasteful tax entitlements for politically connected groups, H. Res. 5 eliminates the role of the Congressional Budget Office in calculating the impact of legislation on the deficit.
Most of the right-leaning House Democrats were voted out of office in last year’s election. If Colleen Hanabusa cannot bring herself to show more backbone than those Blue Dogs, she may share their fate in 2012.
In addition to encouraging sloth by some of the richest people in the nation, the End Tax Uncertainty Act will increase the budget deficit, creating additional debt that will need to paid, with interest, before too long in the future.
There are children going hungry in America, but in December of 2010 Rep. Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan voted against S. 3307, a bill to help bolster school lunch programs for those hungry kids. In the same 111th Congress, Thad McCotter wrote and introduced legislation to give a tax break for pampered dogs. In these troubled [...]
Jeff Flake is leading a Republican charge to use the Obama-GOP tax deal as an excuse to cut Social Security benefits that Americans have already paid for.
A roll call of the House Democrats, listing those who voted in favor of tax cuts for billionaires, and those who voted against the legislation.
Representative Pete Defazio gave a speech yesterday in which he set the standards for liberal acceptance of tax cut legislation
Tom Harkin gave a speech that shatters the myth of Obama’s clever inclusion of the reduction in payments to keep Social Security solvent.
If Republican Senator George Voinovich can take a stand against tax cuts for the rich, why can’t Barack Obama?
One of the most poignant moments of his eight and a half hour speech came when Bernie Sanders explained what the consequences of the tax cuts’ failure to produce jobs has meant for Americans. It hasn’t just meant fewer jobs. It’s meant decreased real income even for those Americans who are lucky enough to have work.
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