Critics say the proposals would heavily favor unionized companies and significantly increase the cost and amount of time needed to award contracts. Estimates have the potential cost increase at 20 percent, adding about $100 billion a year to the federal budget.
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February 11, 2010 05:48
Obama is Owned — You Can Bank On It by Ann Coulter
How about just punishing the guilty? The Democrats can’t do that because the list of Wall Street’s biggest offenders may turn out to be eerily similar to the list of Obama’s biggest campaign contributors.
February 10, 2010 06:50
TORT REFORM: THINKING & ACTING INTELLIGENTLY, A BLUEPRINT FOR REFORM
The journey toward comprehensive tort reform should properly begin with fixing the medical malpractice crisis. But it should not end there.
February 10, 2010 06:06
Back to the Drawing Board-Democratic fantasies face the bracing slap of reality.
Reality rears its ugly head against the progressive policies pushed by Obama and his team of leftist 60’s holdovers.
February 10, 2010 05:08
Big Union money secretly influencing state elections in US
A new Web site targeting the tea parties is a part of a complex network of money flowing from the mountainous coffers of the country’s biggest labor unions and trickling slowly into political slush funds for Democratic activists.
February 8, 2010 05:17
Pfizer’s Bad Political Bet -billion$ to support Obamacare
Big business teams up with Obama and the Democrats to change taxpayer money into corporate profits and campaign contributions. ~Editor
February 7, 2010 12:14
Disclosing the Real Risks on Climate Change
It is becoming increasingly clear that the real risks to businesses, investors, employees, and low-income, minority and elderly families are not due to climate change. They are the result of policies enacted in the name of preventing climate change.
February 6, 2010 05:39
Our National Blind Spot – ‘redistribution’ is theft
By Mark W. Hendrickson via American Thinker
Few of us would imagine that a Washington lobbyist would peek out his window at home, wait for his neighbors to leave, and then sneak into their houses to take their possessions. The very image is absurd. And yet, those same lobbyists spend their working hours trying to persuade politicians to grant favors to them and send the bill to someone else.
February 5, 2010 05:36
Sunlight memo to Congress: Here’s how to do earmark disclosure
Currently, information on earmarks is scattered over more than 559 Web sites, including two dozen Web sites maintained by the House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees and the official site of each member of Congress. While it is possible for seasoned earmark researchers to follow the money, constituents are still pretty much left in the dark.
February 3, 2010 05:54
Obama makes a mockery of his own lobbyist ban
That President Obama would say, “we’ve excluded lobbyists,” when he really meant, “we’ve included them, too,” tells us something more surprising: That he’s willing to mislead us, as long as he’s left himself a semantic back door to escape through if he gets called out.
