Defense Fights Sequestration Eisenhower Couldn’t Predict
Defense industry lobbyists are bearing down on members of Congress in a bid to avert $52 billion in automatic spending cuts, part of a...
Embraer Jets Might Expand In Melbourne
MELBOURNE, Florida — Florida Governor Rick Scott announced that Embraer S.A. will open an aircraft assembly plant and related facilities...
Should Earmark Ban be Lifted to Help Congress Make Deals
WASHINGTON — As the federal government recovers from a 16-day shutdown and lurches toward another potential crisis in January, some...
Infrastructure: Where Bipartisanship Works
If you want a lesson in bipartisanship, check out the transportation committees in both the House and the Senate over the last several...
Earmarks and Success Can Help Congress Get Its Groove Back
To break the cycle of failure, partisan recrimination and stalemate on Capitol Hill, Democrats and Republicans need something that looks,...
Earmarks Can Help Congress Get Its Groove Back
Americans have little faith left in Congress. There is mounting evidence that members of Congress have developed a similarly low opinion...
Bipartisan House Group Offers Compromise to End Shutdown Impasse
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is proposing to House Republican and Democratic leaders a compromise to end the government shutdown by...