Senate Democrats Poised for Power Grab

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  December 23rd at 07:00 PM  | 

Senate Democrats are going to be working over the Christmas break to deliver a lump of coal to the American people in the form of a radical changing of the Senate’s rules.  This is a naked power grab by liberals in the Senate pure and simple.  The National Journal reports that Senate Democrats are laying the groundwork to chip away at the filibuster on January 5, | Read More »

Stop the Dodd-Frank Financial Overhaul

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  June 27th at 10:06 PM  | 

Early on Friday morning, after a 20-hour long conference, House and Senate negotiators agreed on a consensus version of their Wall Street overhaul. It’s nominally intended to address the problems exposed by the 2008 near collapse, which gave birth to our current bailout culture. But instead of addressing the problems of Fannie and Freddie, this bill does nothing to reform those GSEs. Faced with a | Read More »