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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 […]

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By Rick Manning As published at http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/international/261588-obamas-paris-climate-treaty-spells-doom-for-tpp President Obama will sign on to some form of a climate change treaty in Paris and he will refuse to submit it to the Senate for ratification. Why is the lame-duck Obama emboldened to flout the Constitution on this landmark treaty? […]

By Dustin Howard As the traditional party of free enterprise, it only makes sense to measure Republican presidential candidates like any other business. If each candidate’s campaign were a business, they would likely employ an analysis to determine their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT). […]