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Avoiding Accountability This week the House of Representatives is expected to pass a large number of bills (49) under the suspension of the rules...
Background On May 13, 2016, the Obama Administration's Department of Education and Department of Justice issued a joint "Dear Colleague Letter on Transgender Students...
Background In 1996 President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, which became popularly known as "welfare reform," into law. The legislation...
In response to the housing collapse and financial crisis of 2007-08, Congress rushed to pass the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection...
On July 12, 2016, the Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR) rushed to pass legislation bailing out the U.S. Postal Service (USPS)-the so-called Postal...
When setting up the Obamacare exchanges, three "risk mitigation" (read: bailout) provisions were written into the law to incentivize large health insurance companies to...