06.10.2015
By Marita Noon The Ex-Im Bank has become a key talking point in the 2016 presidential campaign, but most people don’t even know what it is or why it exists. They surely don’t know that it is a New Deal-era government program that takes our […]
06.09.2015
By Robert Romano “This should be an easy case. Frankly, it probably shouldn’t even have been taken up.” That was President Barack Obama at the G-7 summit in Germany blasting the Supreme Court for daring to even question whether a key portion of the health care law should be enforced as written in the upcoming King v. Burwell decision. At issue is […]
06.08.2015
By Robert Romano One Supreme Court decision flying under the radar at the moment is Texas Dep’t of Housing & Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project . Yet the implications of this case are every bit as important as anything else before the nation’s highest court being decided this month, including the constitutionality of federal exchange subsidies under […]
06.05.2015
By Robert Romano Now we know why Harry Reid never wanted any appropriations bills to come to the floor under normal order when he was Majority Leader. The concessions. Senate Democrats have vowed to filibuster every single appropriations bill that Republicans attempt to bring to the floor […]
06.04.2015
By Robert Romano “I think they see now that this is actually a good thing for the Internet.” That was Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) CEO Fadi Chehade, declaring to Reuters that congressional opposition to an Obama administration plan to transfer key Internet names and numbers authorities from the Department of Commerce was fading. Chehade added, “I am […]
06.03.2015
By Robert Romano This week the House of Representatives is taking up the appropriations bill for Commerce, Science and Justice. This is an opportunity for Congress to exercise its constitutional power of the purse through policy riders that can help limit the size and scope of government. […]
