Blog Articles · Mar 17, 2015 · Budget and Spending, Healthcare, Welfare

Fast Facts: Medicare Doc Fix

The Medicare "Doc Fix" Status: Congress periodically overrides a 1997 law that attempts to contain the cost of Medicare payments to doctors. Congress prevents...

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Blog Articles · Mar 15, 2015 · Budget and Spending

Memo: Republican Budgets Should Achieve Additional Conservative Gains

To: Interested Parties From: Heritage Action for America Date: March 16, 2015 Subject: Republican Budgets Should Achieve Additional Conservative Gains In 2011, the new...

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Blog Articles · Mar 10, 2015 · Budget and Spending, Education

Fast Facts: Reauthorizing No Child Left Behind (H.R. 5)

Reauthorizing No Child Left Behind: the Student Success Act (H.R. 5) Status: The Student Success Act (H.R. 5) is a 620-page bill that would...

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Blog Articles · Feb 8, 2015 · Budget and Spending, Cronyism

"Very Large Losses" for Export-Import Bank Project

Fourteen months ago, the taxpayer-backed U.S. Export-Import Bank authorized a $700 million loan to Australia's richest person, mining heiress Gina Rinehart. Today, Australia's Business...

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Blog Articles · Jul 28, 2014 · Budget and Spending, Defense and National Security

Congress Rushing to Create New Veterans' Overload

As a veteran myself, I consider care for our nation's heroes a top priority. The Department of Veterans' Affairs has been in disarray for...

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Blog Articles · Jul 27, 2014 · Budget and Spending, Cronyism

What They're Saying: Export-Import Bank Supporters Undermine Obama's Bank

The debate over the future of the Export-Import Bank can be difficult to follow, in part because proponents of the Bank are often in...

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