Now we have it. The United States House of Representatives is officially trying to throw their weight into the freedom of the press: The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday condemned public disclosure of secret surveillance programs as Republicans stepped up their criticism of news media that published details of a bank-monitoring program last week. […]
Today’s New York Times looks at the battle over the search of Jefferson’s office and brings up some points that are interesting: Speaker J. Dennis Hastert is moving publicly to put his constitutional showdown with the Justice Department in the past, but many on Capitol Hill believe that the bitter confrontation will resonate in the […]
Here in the Buckeye state, we have been plagues with scandals at the state level. For the first time in History, we have had a governor convicted of a crime while in office and there are still numerous investigations going on. One of the biggest is the scandal to invest our worker’s compensation funds into […]
Yet more of our privacy is under attack and this time it comes from the IRS: The Internal Revenue Service is quietly moving to loosen the once-inviolable privacy of federal income-tax returns. If it succeeds, accountants and other tax-return preparers for the first time would be able to sell information from individual returns — or […]
This is the framing for an interesting battle Key White House tax proposals would cost the U.S. government tens of billions of dollars in lost revenue, the Treasury Department said on Monday, although the administration says they will help boost revenues in the long run. Making permanent expiring tax breaks for dividends and capital gains, […]
Well this is some disturbing information coming from the treasury: Treasury Secretary John Snow has warned that unless Congress raises the national debt limit, the US government will run out of cash to finance its daily work in two months. In a letter to Senate leaders Thursday, Snow said the statutory debt limit imposed by […]