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By Robert Romano But for a promised vote on reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank, legislation granting trade promotion authority to President Barack Obama to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership might have failed. Or is it the other way around? Ahead of Senate passage of trade authority on May 22, […]

By Robert Romano Thinking about going on Medicaid? $497.9 million. That is how much the Medicaid program recovered from the estates of deceased patients in Fiscal Year 2011, according to a program inspector general report . Asset seizure has long been a part of the Medicaid program since 1965, and since 1993, it has […]

By Robert Romano “I’ve said that the only way I would give fast track trade authority to a president, was if it was a president that could actually trust and negotiate well, and after watching the way this president has negotiated with folks in Iran, I have […]

By Robert Romano Trade promotion authority for the president to negotiate commercial treaties — which pass with simple majority votes in both chambers of Congress — has lapsed since 2007, when Democrats had majorities. Once Barack Obama became president, Democrats never granted him trade authority. They could […]

By Robert Romano The National Review’s Quin Hillyer had a very interesting piece on May 11 that points to the Republican voter turnout deficit in 2012 among what Sean Trende at Real Clear Politics described as “largely downscale, Northern, rural whites. In other words, H. Ross Perot voters.” Here, Hillyer and Trende are pointing to the 2.5 million potential Republican voters who stayed home in 2012 , probably costing Mitt Romney […]

By Rick Manning Why does the left hate entry-level jobs? That’s what many former fast food workers must be asking themselves after massive increases in the minimum wage in places like Seattle, Washington are being blamed for a wave of restaurant closures. Closures that deprive entry-level workers an opportunity […]

By Robert Romano 0.8 percent. That is how much winter weather knocked off the Gross Domestic Product estimate by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which came in at just 0.2 percent in the first quarter, says St. Louis-based Macroeconomic Advisers. The firm finds a small link between […]

By Sen. Jeff Sessions Adapted from a statement at http://www.sessions.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2015/5/critical-alert . Congress has the responsibility to ensure that any international trade agreement entered into by the United States must serve the national interest, not merely the interests of those crafting the proposal in secret. It must […]

By Robert Romano “I support any plan that the chairman [Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas)] can get through his committee, whether it would reform the bank, wind it down.” That was House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) calling for an act of Congress to wind down the Export-Import Bank of the United States , the $27.5 billion a year operation that, according to its charter, is supposed to “facilitate exports […]