The Congressional Budget Office: Honest Numbers, Power, and Policy Making, by Philip Joyce. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2011First page of articledoi:10.1111/j.1540-5850.2012.01018.xIrene Rubin© 2012 Public Financial Publications, Inc.Public Budgeting & FinanceJoyce, Philip G. 2011. The Congressional ...
This Day In The History Of Music for this Tuesday. Have a great Tuesday. 1888: First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder. 1936: George M. Cohan is the first artist to be presented with a US Congressional Gold Me...
Abortion rights supporters want toamendthe state constitution to allow abortion in Missouri, where the procedure is currently prohibited, unless it's necessary to protect the health or life of the woman. Roughly 170,000 signatures from six out of eight congressional districts were required to get...
Voter backlash was widely credited with limiting Republican gains in the 2022 congressional midterm elections, as well as propelling Democrats to victories last month in Virginia and Kentucky. Every statewide ballot question about reproductive rights since 2022 - seven in all - has yielded victory for...
The legislation contains one of the largest Medicaid funding cuts in modern history, projected to be nearly $700 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The legislation also cuts $290 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the food aid program for low-...
According to statistics, winners of 91 percent of US congressional elections are the candidates with greater financial support. Big companies, a small group of rich people, and interest groups are more generous to offer financial support and have become the main sourc...
Congress. Though Fritz never ran for governor, he did follow in his father’s footsteps to Washington, where he represented Texas’ 12th congressional district from 1919 until his retirement in 1946. Following the choice of Lanham as editor, the board held an animated conversation well into the...
Congressional hearings will make this clear. It also gives the Democrats another reason to support them. They are fighting for us. So Pelosi brings the House back in for an emergency session, announces hearings into the matter…and the WH immediately responds by saying it will not ...
William Clark ran for congressional office three times during those years. He lost the first two, largely on the money Daly spent to insure he would loose. The third time, Clark won – Daly had died the month before! So, even in the late 1800’s – money, power and politics were entw...