Posts Tagged ‘Appropriations Committee’
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Regular Order and the Spending Bills
Posted on April 19, 2016
(This originally appeared in The Hill) Alexander Hamilton, newly a star on Broadway, didn’t care much for specific spending requests from Congress. He urged the House and the Senate to...
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Anxiety and NIH
Posted on July 6, 2015
ISIS? The Greek Crisis? A nuclear Iran? Jennifer and Ben divorcing? Nope. What really causes anxiety among the American people is the fear that they are going to get Alzheimer’s....
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Amtrak: Status Quo is Not Acceptable
Posted on May 14, 2015
Mike Simpson was right, of course. The Idaho Republican told the Appropriations Committee Democrats that their efforts to politicize the Amtrak train crash were inappropriate and out of order. We...
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As Budget Passes, Reid Departs
Posted on March 27, 2015
Perhaps it was the voter-rama that did it? Was it just a coincidence that shortly after the Senate completed work on its budget for the year that Senator Harry Reid...
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Hurray to Mike Simpson!
Posted on March 4, 2015
When John Boehner needed a Member to step up and take a leadership role in bringing the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations bill to the House floor yesterday, his friend...
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