Now that the House and Senate have moved to put the kibosh on sequester furloughs of air traffic controllers and other transportation security employees, what is the genesis of a 10 percent reduction in labor hours for a two percent […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Negotiations to avert the “fiscal cliff” have not gone well. After meeting with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, House Speaker John Boehner said Geithner offered no “specific” plan for averting the looming end-of-year fiscal crisis, adding: “This is not a game.” […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Reid recesses Senate for one month vacation Adam Jentleson, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) spokesman stated that the majority leader does not plan to bring the Senate back in session next week should the House of Representatives reject the Senate’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you want to judge how serious the Democrats are at reducing the debt, you look no further than their appointees to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. On the Senate side, Harry Reid made one moderate choice in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Given the choice of driving into a brick wall at 100 miles per hour or hitting the same wall at 70 miles per hour, the latter would seem to be the better choice; such has been the theme of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The U.S. Senate is a train wreck. The partisanship of the majority Leader Harry Reid has reached new levels as he killed the only piece of legislation currently written to address the debt limit. Using a Senate maneuver Friday morning, a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…