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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...
This week the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a markup of the 2016 Postal Service Reform Act. Postal reform has been...
Last fall, now-presumptive Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton said "she supported allowing cities and states to tax online purchases" though Reuters noted at the time...