Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/01/06/what-would-you-do-with-a-trillion-dollars/
Jan. 6, 2011 - The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and National Priorities Project (NPP) are preparing to announce the six lucky winners of If I Had a Trillion Dollars (IHTD), a national video contest whic...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/01/05/gates-expected-to-slice-orders-for-f-35-as-part-of/
Jan. 5, 2011 - Defense Secretary Robert Gates plans to cut orders for the F-35 joint strike fighter over the next three to five years as part of broader plan to reduce Pentagon spending by $100 billion, analysts say...
Blog - /blog/2010/12/28/lame-duck-had-wings/
Dec. 28, 2010 - After the November elections, members of Congress returned to Capitol Hill for their “lame duck” session with one huge piece of unfinished business – the Fiscal Year 2011 budget. And while they failed...
Blog - /blog/2010/12/23/block-energy-assistance-programs/
Dec. 23, 2010 - p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }a:link { } By Samantha Dana During the holiday season, many of us wish for a “White Christmas” while we “dream by the fire.” For others, the warmth of the season is illusiv...
Blog - /blog/2010/12/21/forecast-mostly-cloudy-chance-shut-down/
Dec. 21, 2010 - p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }a:link { } By Samantha DanaWith the clock ticking away on the last session of the 111th Congress, the Democratic leadership in the House and Senate have a few bills they st...
Blog - /blog/2010/12/14/not-block-free-and-reduced-school-meals/
Dec. 14, 2010 - p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }a:link { } By Samantha Dana Yesterday, President Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 into law with his wife, a strong anti-childhood obesity advocate, by...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/12/09/democrats-delay-action-on-young-immigrants-bill/
Dec. 9, 2010 - WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have delayed a showdown vote on legislation carving out a path to legal status for foreign-born youngsters brought to this country illegally. Facing GOP objections, Democra...
Blog - /blog/2010/12/08/ill-see-your-cr-and-raise-you-one-omnibus/
Dec. 8, 2010 - In the topsy-turvy world that is Washington, D.C., these days, Congress is struggling to find a way to fulfill its primary function -- pass a budget.The government is currently being funded by a “cont...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/12/08/congress-bumbles-forward-on-budgeting/
Dec. 8, 2010 - The good folks at the National Priorities Project have a rundown on what's happening with budgeting and spending this week:
Blog - /blog/2010/11/30/dollars-and-sense-nuclear-weapons/
Nov. 30, 2010 - In Prague last April, President Obama raised the world’s hopes with his speech calling for a “nuclear free future.” Since then, his Administration has made non-proliferation – preventing the spread of...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/29/wikileaks-demistifying-deplomacy/
Nov. 29, 2010 - Compared to the kind of secret cables that WikiLeaks has just shared with the world, everyday public statements from government officials are exercises in make-believe. In a democracy, people have a r...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/21/tomgram-david-swanson-all-war-all-the-time/
Nov. 21, 2010 - These last years of blissful peace have left Republican Congressman Howard P. "Buck" McKeon, soon to be the new chair of the House Armed Services Committee, in a true panic. How, he wonders, will a st...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/20/the-grinch-who-stole-xmas-as-holidays-approach-rep/
Nov. 20, 2010 - (NATIONAL) -- It may not be a great holiday season for some 5 million out of work Americans - and their spouses and children - who's unemployment benefits are about to run out.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/19/town-meeting-agrees-to-question-war-spending/
Nov. 19, 2010 - Town Meeting has endorsed an ongoing public dialogue about how Amherst tax dollars are being used to fund wars overseas, even as a student representative from the University of Massachusetts told the ...
Blog - /blog/2010/11/16/all-hands-debt-entering-critical-debate-over-federal-deficit-reduction/
Nov. 16, 2010 - Last week the Co-Chairmen of the President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform -- former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson and former White House Chief-of-Staff Erskine Bowles -- rele...
Blog - /blog/2010/11/15/unraveling-dc-speak-abcs-terminology-high-stakes-world-federal-budgeting/
Nov. 15, 2010 - This week members of Congress return to Capitol Hill for their “lame duck” session. If you’re wondering about the phrase, “lame ducks” are those members who either lost their election (or did not seek...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/14/tomgram-engelhart-war-to-horizon/
Nov. 14, 2010 - ...housing" for embassy personnel is not to be completed until sometime in 2014, approximately three years after President Obama's July 2011 Afghan drawdown is set to begin, and that $511 million is part...
Blog - /blog/2010/11/09/work-lame-duck/
Nov. 9, 2010 - Congress is scheduled to return on November 15 for what is known as a lame duck session – a post-election period when members who have been voted out of office return to Washington to continue work pr...
Blog - /blog/2010/11/03/remembering-recovery-november-3-federal-budget-its-ours-own-it/
Nov. 3, 2010 - NPP very recently updated all its Federal Priorities Database expenditures and indicators to the state level with the latest data available. We invite you to use the database – especially if you want ...
Blog - /blog/2010/10/27/after-mid-terms-budget/
Oct. 27, 2010 - With Election Day just around the corner, the question on the minds of many people is “what’s going to happen in Washington?” Regardless of the outcome of Tuesday’s elections, members of Congress will...
