|
1. Capitol Hill Update, December 8, 2014 - by Josh Withrow House & Senate/Schedule: The House looks like its intent is to pass a government funding bill and leave town on Thursday of this week, while the Senate may stay in town a few days longer. House & Senate/Spending: Appropriators and leadership from the House and Senate are poised to unveil their compromise(d) omnibus spending bill to fund the government through the end of the next fiscal year. Unfortunately, we’re already getting word that good amendments to the House appropriations bills passed earlier this year may be pulled out of the final result. Read more here...  2. Jonathan Gruber is Set to Testify on the Hill Over the Deception Used to Ram ObamaCare Through Congress - by Jason Pye The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hear testimony on Tuesday morning from Jonathan Gruber, the architect of ObamaCare, and Marilyn Tavenner, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), over the lack of transparency and deception used push the law through Congress in 2009 and 2010. The Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees CMS, didn't want Tavenner to sit at the same table with Gruber. In a letter to Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), an HHS official asked that Tavenner "be provided the opportunity to testify on a panel comprised solely of government witnesses." Read more here... 3. Congress to Drop Amendment That Would Restrict NSA - by Julie Borowski Government surveillance is out of control. The federal government can legally read our old private emails without even a warrant. The NSA is mass collecting phone metadata from innocent Americans. Edward Snowden revealed that an NSA program called XKeyscore taps nearly everything a typical user does on the Internet. Read more here... 4. Liberty Beats "ObamaCare" - by Sam Martin The Affordable Health Care Act, also know as "ObamaCare" is falling apart right in front of our eyes. Its time for Patient Centered Health Care driven by Free Market Principles that will benefit all Americans. Watch here...  5. Forcing People to Buy Useless, Expensive Insurance is Nothing to Gloat About - by Logan Albright A new study from the Urban Institute has supporters of ObamaCare - what few still remain, anyway -touting how successful the law has been. Of course, it all depends on what your definition of “successful” is. The main findings of the study are that the rate of uninsured Americans is lower today that it was a year ago. This should not be surprising to anyone, and the fact that defenders are trumpeting these results as some sort of victory is a bit puzzling. Of course fewer people are uninsured, because the Obama administration literally made being uninsured illegal. Americans are forced to buy insurance, or else face fines that are rapidly increasing. It would make about as much sense to pass a law compelling everyone to buy a car, and then boast about how the number of people without transportation had decreased. It’s simple cause and effect. Read more here... 6. Garner Killing: Cops Shouldn't Be Policing the Cigarette Market - by Jason Pye via Newsweek On Wednesday evening, a grand jury announced that it would not indict a New York City police officer who, in July, killed Eric Garner, a 43-year-old Staten Island resident with a history of serious health problems and father of six children. Gut-wrenching video of the incident found its way online, sparking outrage due to the tactics used by police. Read more here... 7. Another Indictment Against the Left's Class Warfare Game - by Anthony Kang Inequality, growing disparity, and the wealth gap are talking points inescapable by those even remotely involved and informed in politics. To many on the Left, the unequal “distribution” of wealth represents the single greatest threat of our time. Read more here... In Liberty, Jackie Bodnar Director of Communications, FreedomWorks 
|
No comments:
Post a Comment