Tomorrow the Senate Finance Committee is considering a step toward openness and transparency for committee meetings but there are still some big loopholes in the draft rules. Namely, the proposed rule would establish a 21 business day deadline for posting meeting records, which translates into more than a calendar month. …
President Bush got the government’s response to the housing crisis half right. The administration’s voluntary HOPE NOW program is the way to go, while his calls for more government intervention in the housing market will only distort an already troubled market. It is essential that the federal response not reward …
Since 1966 the major networks follow the their television production of the President’s State of the Union Address by giving a representative of the opposition party an opportunity to respond. Building of this tradition, Senate Conservative Steering Committee Chair Jim DeMint (R-SC) taped a response to the President’s address to …
In his final State of the Union address, the President not only raised the politically contentious issue of making tangible progress on advancing pending free trade initiatives, but also highlighted the importance of freer trade in helping America weather today’s economic turbulence and in promoting American competitiveness in the future. …
The President made a good case for congressional approval of the three pending trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama and their nearly 100 million customers. It was smart to frame the issue in terms of the many benefits these agreements will give to American workers “to compete with …
