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    Energy-Water Appropriations Bill Vote Roundup

    By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  June 8th at 08:01 AM  | 

    This week, the House debated and passed the FY13 Energy-Water appropriations bill, which primarily funds the Energy Department and agencies within the Department of Interior.  While House leadership claims to support a balanced budget, they are not willing to eliminate the requisite number of programs needed to achieve that goal.  As conservatives, we believe that the entire Department of Energy – except for the nuclear | Read More »

    A New Highway Bill to Cave City

    By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  April 16th at 06:28 AM  | 

    As we’ve noted throughout the past year’s imbroglio over transportation spending, it is clear that complete federal control over transportation spending in a post-interstate highway era (post 1992) is inefficient, costly, anti-federalist, and precludes state and private innovations.  Yet, Congress continues to buckle down on a policy that has failed in recent years, exposing taxpayers to future bailouts and tax increases.  Worst of all, it | Read More »

    Federal Workers Earning More Than Those Paying Their Salaries

    By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  January 31st at 06:47 AM  | 

    Remember Obama’s two-year salary freeze he imposed on federal workers?  Well, as part of his FY 2013 budget, Obama plans to end the pay freeze and offer salary increases to federal workers.  It is in this context that CBO published a report showing that federal workers still earn more than their counterparts in the private sector. While it is clear that many federal workers (but not | Read More »