By Natalia Castro Hurricane Harvey has left Houston’s citizens displaced, damaged, and in need of an opportunity to rebuild. Luckily, the destructive hurricanes of our country’s past have left a model for recovery that Texas is prepared to utilize. With hundreds of devastated schools, Houston […]

By Robert Romano The Republican Party has majorities in both chambers of Congress plus the White House, and it has must-pass pieces of legislation like the budget, debt ceiling, the Sept. 30 continuing resolution and Hurricane Harvey and Irma funding relief bills that provide opportunity after opportunity […]

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By Robert Romano There was good news on the economic front as the Bureau of Economic Analysis revised upwards reported growth of the Gross Domestic Product in the second quarter from an inflation-adjusted 2.6 percent annualized to 3 percent annualized . The news was heralded as great news for the American […]

By Natalia Castro For years, the message was to go to college. A college degree became essential for nearly any job and American youth have flocked into Universities at higher rates than ever before. But mounting debt and the struggle to find jobs has created a bubble that is ready […]

By Robert Romano One of the things that the Trump administration has gotten right this year has been on the regulatory front, working with Congress to undo a score of Obama midnight regulations, rescinding the onerous Waters of the United States rulemaking regulating every puddle in America […]

By Robert Romano Michigan. Pennsylvania. Ohio. Wisconsin. Besides Florida and North Carolina, these were the Rust Belt swing states that put President Donald Trump over the top in the Electoral College in 2016, and without which, Hillary Clinton would be President today. These Rust Belt states — […]

By Peter Hong As Congress gets set to return from August recess, the business world and the stock market are all atwitter about the prospects for true, comprehensive tax reform. Tax reform should be a once in a generation opportunity to transform the tax code […]

By Peter Hong While the 115th Congress remains at a standstill on overhauling Obamacare, there is a much lesser known, yet important, ongoing fight in health care:  the battle pitting open competition against monopolization of the contact lens market. For years, health care giant Johnson […]

By Richard McCarty As originally published at http://seiumonitor.com/seiu-lobbies-lousy-legislation/ The California legislature is currently considering a bill to make it nearly impossible for most county governments to hire companies and nonprofits to deliver public services. The bill, AB 1250, was introduced by a former Service Employees International Union (SEIU) boss , and SEIU is one of its […]