by Dave Johnson | Jul 31, 2015 | Blog, Current Issues, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Administration officials are desperately trying to wrap-up Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations in the next few days or so. If they can get it done right now, it enables a timeline for pushing it through Congress by the end of the year — before the public can...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 31, 2015 | Blog, Trade
Conservatives deride using government to help American companies export their goods as "picking winners and losers," even when the winners are American exporters and workers. So Republicans have closed the Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank, hopefully temporarily. The Ex-Im...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 30, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Health, This Is The GOP
Today is Medicare’s 50th birthday. It’s improved the lives of millions of Americans, and it can as much for even more people. That’s why Republicans have never stopped trying to end it. Fifty years ago today, Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Medicare amendment under Title...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 30, 2015 | Blog, Education
An article by Alia Wong for The Atlantic this week caused quite a stir by pointing to a recent survey of teachers that found one of the main stresses they have during their busy days is getting a potty break. Wong looked at results from a poll about the work...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 30, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Tax Reform
The Senate was expected today to vote for a three-month extension of surface transportation programs that the House approved on Wednesday, after also approving by a vote of 65-34 the six-year bill the Senate had hoped to pass this week. The six-year bill now awaits...
by Donald Kaul | Jul 29, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
At long last Republican presidential hopefuls crept out of their foxholes, where they’d been cowering and maintaining radio silence, to attack Donald Trump. With one or two exceptions, the field went AWOL as Trump trashed immigrants, calling them drug runners and...
