Congressional Budget Office Slams Stimulus Plan

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  January 21st at 12:58 PM  | 

I referenced this yesterday in another post, but it bears repeating here: the Democratic stimulus package has already failed. That is the finding of Congress’ own budget office — the CBO — which has determined that the spending component of the bill will come far too late to help restore economic growth: Less than half the money dedicated to highways, school construction and other infrastructure | Read More »

Economic Crisis Forces Congress to Spend More on Itself

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  January 15th at 10:27 PM  | 

Roll Call with the story: According to several Congressional sources, the House Administration Committee has alerted Members that their office accounts will increase by an average of $90,000 this year, an overall increase of about $40 million and significantly more that the increases of recent years.