Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/10/01/what-the-presidential-debates-wont-tell-you/
Oct. 1, 2012 - ...used on deficits, taxes, Medicare, the Pentagon, and education, to which you already more or less know the responses each candidate will offer. What you won't get from either Mitt Romney or Barack Oba...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/election-2012-voter-guide/fact-sheet-military-spending/
Sept. 7, 2012 - ...us of military spending.
Analysis - /analysis/2012/election-2012-voter-guide/voter-guide-2012-obama-and-romney-issues/
Sept. 7, 2012 - National Priorities Project compares the candidates on 12 key issues.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/09/07/fact-checking-obamas-speech/
Sept. 7, 2012 - ...us thousands of lives and over a trillion dollars…” The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost more than $1.37 trillion, according to the National Priorities Project. Over 6,500 US servi...
Blog - /blog/2012/08/13/ryan-pick-solidifies-competing-visions-federal-budget-debate/
Aug. 13, 2012 - ...use Budget Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) as the GOP Vice Presidential nominee. Although Mitt Romney has emphasized he will run on a Romney budget, ...
Blog - /blog/2012/08/01/where-are-we-now-congress-white-house-reach-agreement-temporary-spending-bill/
Aug. 2, 2012 - ...use Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced that they had reached an agreement on a temporary spending bill – known as a “continuing resolution” (CR) – that will fund government ...
Blog - /blog/2012/07/20/where-are-we-now-pentagon-spending-and-sequestration/
July 23, 2012 - ...use of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to approve the fiscal year 2013 Defense Appropriations bill, while the House Armed Services Committee held hearings on the potential impact of upcoming spen...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/07/18/four-spending-myths-keeping-us-from-recovery/
July 18, 2012 - ...us airtime. That’s a serious bummer, since each of them is a spending myth of the first order. Let’s pop them, one by one, and move on to the truly urgent business of a nation that is inde...
Blog - /blog/2012/06/18/you-ask-we-answer-sequestration-and-pentagon/
June 18, 2012 - ...spending cuts will be for the Pentagon. Will any other programs get cut?”We get a LOT of questions about the automatic spending cuts – known as sequestration – called for under the B...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/29/two-choices-before-us/
May 29, 2012 - ...us event that turned political, and a political event that turned religious.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/24/us-defense-cuts-hit-home-at-ohio-tank-plant/
May 24, 2012 - Jeff Bingman
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/22/on-the-war-path-the-nearly-1-trillion-national-sec/
May 22, 2012 - Recent months have seen a flurry of headlines about
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/22/just-how-much-does-washington-spend-on-national-se/
May 22, 2012 - The Pentagon base budget of $530 billion is only
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/22/one-trillion-for-defense/
May 22, 2012 - ...defense budget. Last week, lawmakers in the House of Representatives even passed a bill that was meant to spare national security spending from future cuts by reducing school-lunch funding and other s...
Blog - /blog/2012/05/16/why-senate-wont-pass-budget/
May 17, 2012 - ...spending and revenue guidelines for Congress’s annual appropriations process.Except that the Senate won’t pass a budget resolution this year. To Hill watchers, this isn’t too surpris...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/06/letter-eisenhower-was-right-about-military-sapping/
May 6, 2012 - ...spending cuts for the purpose of reining in the national debt, a six-member bipartisan supercommittee was set up with the same results: gridlock.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/04/18/can-women-change-the-story-of-the-niger-delta/
April 18, 2012 - “The whole fight for resource control has led to the eruption and escalation of all manner of conflict and violence in the Niger Delta. It’s all about power and control in light of the oil revenue.”
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/04/17/government-spending-reveals-national-priorities/
April 17, 2012 - ...us of the heavy burden taxpayers bear as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/04/13/fifth-grader-says-im-mad-at-the-government/
April 13, 2012 - "If we had a trillion dollars," dream the youth of Bresee Community Center in Los Angeles, "we would buy materials to build homeless shelters, rehabilitation centers, skate parks and soccer fields."
Blog - /blog/2012/04/03/pentagon-battles-healthcare-costs/
April 4, 2012 - ...Defense Department has included in its fiscal year 2013 budget request a political bombshell – increasing beneficiary contributions to its healthcare programs.The Defense Department’s heal...
