By Nathan Mehrens One of the worst ideas that the Obama administration has proposed, making it harder for employers to obtain legal advice, is apparently moving forward. On Dec. 7, the U.S. Department of Labor submitted a draft final regulation to the White House for […]

By Robert Romano Consider these facts. One of the Paris bombers was posing as a refugee with his passport, and so, racing against time, Congress took up legislation to increase FBI monitoring of refugees fleeing the war in Syria and Iraq that would come to the U.S., of which 10,000 are expected. And, then, after the San Bernadino attacks where one of the killers was a Pakastani […]

By Robert Romano “If conservative members of Congress don’t provide leadership with a set of policy defunds that, if included in the omnibus spending bill, will win their vote, and if leadership isn’t actively engaging them, then the legislation will be subject to the exact kind of […]

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By Rick Manning As published at http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/economy-budget/262435-its-power-of-the-purse-time-in-congress The final touches of the omnibus funding bill are being put into place, and it is imperative that conservative House and Senate members provide leadership with a pathway to get their votes and that the leadership reaches out to conservatives for […]

By Dustin Howard Here is one defund Congress might want to look at in the upcoming omnibus spending bill for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2016: Stopping the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) war on the franchise business model. In business, predictability is usually a […]

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By Ken Blackwell and Rick Manning As published at http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/12/04/congress-must-stop-team-obamas-plan-to-radically-reengineer-americas-neighborhoods.html The Obama administration’s Housing & Urban Development department is embarking on a social engineering experiment that wipes out one of the fundamental functions of local government – making neighborhood zoning decisions. Through its Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) […]

By Robert Romano On Dec. 2, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved 359 to 64 the so-called “Every Student Succeeds Act,” a reauthorization and amendment of the “Elementary Secondary Education Act of 1965” providing federal funds to states and cities for public schools. As we were analyzing the text of the conference report hours before the […]

By Robert Romano The omnibus spending bill for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2016 is upon us — funding for the so-called discretionary portion of the federal government runs out on Dec. 11 — and that means there is another opportunity for Congress to assert its constitutional […]