Posts Tagged ‘Denny Hastert’
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A Real Education For the New Congress
Posted on January 5, 2015
Since the Democrats took control of Congress in the election of 2006, an astounding 334 House and 70 Senate seats have changed hands. We have 52 new House Members and...
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What If Medicare Spending Slowed Because Of Part D?
Posted on July 29, 2014
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank.) In about 16 years, both the Medicare and Social Security trust funds will basically be out of money, according to the report released Monday...
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RX Drugs: 10 Years
Posted on December 3, 2013
Ten years ago, Congress was in the process of passing a controversial piece of legislation, which the president would sign on Dec. 8: the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and...
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Rules Are Made to Be Broken
Posted on January 16, 2013
My cousin Barry once said to me, with a mischievous grin, before he got in trouble with his parents, “rules are made to be broken.” That certainly is the case...
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No Need To Respond
Posted on September 7, 2011
Ev and Gerry started the whole response thing. Everett Dirksen and Gerry Ford, the former Senate Republican leader from Illinois and the former House Minority Leader (and later President) from...
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