The NEXT Big Infrastructure Bill

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  January 28th at 11:34 AM  | 

Glenn Reynolds asks a good question: WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR LAST BIG “INFRASTRUCTURE” BILL? Everyone seems to have forgotten that just three years ago, in August 2005, Congress enacted the biggest federal public works program in American history, spending a massive $286.4 billion on the 2005 highway bill. At that time, President Bush and congressional leaders from both parties told us that the new highway | Read More »

Obama Appoints Tax Cop to ‘Improve Government Performance’

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  January 7th at 02:44 PM  | 

During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to go through the federal budget ‘line by line’ to root out waste. Today he announced the hiring of an experienced federal management expert to help him do that: As the first Chief Performance Officer, working with Peter Orszag and Rob Nabors at the Office of Management and Budget, Nancy Killefer is uniquely qualified to lead that effort… | Read More »