By Rick Manning – Hell must have frozen over this past weekend as the U.S. Senate broke a four year record of intransigence and failure as it unleashed a blizzard of votes that culminated with the passage of a budget document that reveals the plans and priorities of the 50 Democrats who supported it. It was no mistake that the [...]

Due to the sequester, some entrances to Capitol Hill Congressional building have been closed. But in a sign that these entrances are merely being closed for the theater of it all, the closed entrances are still receiving regular maintenance. Odd. Here’s a picture of one of the closed entrances being painted: The closing of the entrances is merely a way [...]

By Rick Manning — Thursday’s headlines from Washington, D.C. will likely read that the House of Representatives passed a ten year path to a balanced budget proposed by Representative Paul Ryan. While the Ryan budget is a gigantic step in the right direction, a proposal by the House Republican Study Committee that brings the budget into balance in four years [...]

By Adam Bitely — The Ryan Budget was released March 13 to the typical fanfare it has received over the past several years. Republicans hold it aloft as a bold contrast to the Obama agenda as a blueprint for limited government and attempt to make it into the blueprint of a future of Republican officeholders. Just see what House Minority [...]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at TheHill.com. By Rick Manning – News flash. Senate Democrats pass a budget out of committee that includes massive tax increases, dramatically increases spending, never is projected to come close to balancing the budget, and in a tip of the hat to George Orwell, they call it “balanced” in its approach. Is there [...]

By Adam Bitely — In typical Washington fashion, politicians are claiming to have made bold moves while doing anything but. A recent Washington Post report outlines that the $37 billion of “cuts” to government spending that were a part of the deal reached by Republicans and Democrats in April of 2011 to avoid a government shutdown failed to actually cut [...]

By Bill Wilson — When will the liberal tail stop wagging the Republican dog? This is an absurd, unserious proposal by the House Ways and Means Committee, especially when other Republicans have been coming up with serious proposals to address our fiscal problems. On one hand, it is a foolish fraud wherein Republicans are pretending not to raise the debt [...]

By Adam Bitely — Those in favor of cutting spending from the federal government’s budget have several battles ahead where significant cuts can be achieved. For the first time since the summer of 2011, when Republicans rolled over to Obama on the last debt ceiling increase, House Republicans stand in position to make significant demands and are armed with a [...]

It’s the fourth time in five years that Barack Obama will not have submitted a budget to Congress by the legal deadline indicating that following the law is not a priority for the White House. Rep. Paul Ryan had written to the White House last week asking whether or not Obama will submit the budget on time. The Obama administration [...]

By Rick Manning — Democrat political operatives are already sharpening their pencils to spin the fiscal cliff vote against Republicans who voted against it by claiming that they voted against a massive tax cut for the middle class. Hoping that no one will notice that their net pay will be less in 2013 because the two year tax holiday on [...]