Analysis - /analysis/2008/the-presidents-budget-fy2009/
Feb. 6, 2008 - The administration released its fiscal year 2009 $3 trillion budget request on Monday, February 5. An overview of the budget proposal along with state-level breakdowns on selected programs are availab...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/10/23/president-bush-presses-congress-for-extra-42-bn-to/
Oct. 23, 2007 - President Bush yesterday asked Congress for another multibillion-dollar slice of military funding, spending which should ensure the cost of the Iraq war rises over the $500 billion mark early in the n...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/08/13/guns-versus-butter-our-real-economic-challenge/
Aug. 13, 2007 - Guns versus butter. It's the classic debate that really tells us a lot about our priorities that we set for the kind of society we can expect to live in -- how much money a country spends on the milit...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/07/18/analysis-bushs-failed-mideast-policy/
July 18, 2007 - WASHINGTON, July 18 (UPI) -- U.S. President George W. Bush hopes to convene an international conference next autumn to pave the way forward for the stalled Middle East peace talks between Israel and t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/05/07/are-iraq-war-costs-spinning-out-of-control/
May 7, 2007 - ...housing units. Even if the war were to end in days, its costs to taxpayers will drag on for decades. A study by Linda Bilmes, an economist at Harvard University, and Columbia University's Joseph Stigl...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/04/13/how-uncle-sam-spends-your-tax-money/
April 13, 2007 - ...housing, and agencies such as the Agriculture Dept. and the Energy Dept. DISGRUNTLED TAXPAYERS—AND RESISTORS Is there anything you can do if you're unhappy with how Uncle Sam is spending your tax mone...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/02/07/bush-congress-tackle-shifts-in-spending/
Feb. 7, 2007 - Congress sat down Wednesday to begin hashing over the White House's $2.9 trillion budget proposal. And while no one expects the spending plan to make it through the process intact, the Bush budget has...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/01/24/more-troops-more-dollars/
Jan. 24, 2007 - ...housing units, health care for children and new elementary schools.??The publication offers state level data on the number of killed and wounded in Iraq and the cost of the war for two major cities in...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/01/18/new-house-members-busy-settling-in-while-a-retiree/
Jan. 18, 2007 - This article is available in our archives.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2006/12/04/tax-cut-lies-the-day-the-news-died/
Dec. 4, 2006 - The New York Times today jumped on board with a classic Frank Luntz "Big Lie." Democrats in the House and Senate put forth a bill that would reduce taxes on the first quarter-million, and then, when t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2006/11/20/all-war-all-the-time/
Nov. 20, 2006 - 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...
Analysis - /analysis/2005/cuts-to-community-and-economic-development-funding/
Sept. 2, 2005 - This page indicates the potential impact of cuts in community and economic development funding to selected cities.
