Daniel W. Yohannes
| Feb. 9, 2012, Midnight
As the Millennium Challenge Corp. marks its eighth anniversary, we celebrate one of our most distinct features — making our growth-focused, poverty-reducing assistance more accountable through a disciplined and rigorous focus on results at every stage of our investment.
Rep. Earl Blumenauer
| Feb. 9, 2012, Midnight
Congress is currently in the process of considering what many have called the worst transportation bill in history.
Nicole Austin-Hillery
| Feb. 8, 2012, Midnight
After months of partisan gridlock, the Senate voted 96-3 to pass the STOCK Act, which would prohibit Members from trading on insider information — a bill that President Barack Obama vowed to sign into law. While this offers a glimmer of hope, it is not likely to signal the dawn of a new working relationship in Congress and with the president.
Sen. Chris Coons
| Feb. 8, 2012, Midnight
Innovation has long been the spark that powers entrepreneurship and job creation in this country, and behind nearly every innovation are two of my favorite words: research and development. After all, it’s through R&D that ideas become innovations, that innovations become products and that products transform industries.
Rep. Betty McCollum and Ryan Alexander
| Feb. 7, 2012, Midnight
The Senate recently passed S. 1134 without debate. This legislation grants approval for construction of a $700 million bridge across the St. Croix River between Minnesota and Wisconsin. Like Alaska’s infamous “Bridge to Nowhere,” this boondoggle bridge may soon become a national symbol of excess at taxpayer expense in the coming election cycle.
Rep. Lamar Smith
| Feb. 6, 2012, Midnight
In a recent interview, President Barack Obama said he can’t just “wave away the laws that Congress put in place” and that “the president doesn’t have the authority to simply ignore Congress and say, ‘We’re not going to enforce the laws that you’ve passed.’” But that is exactly what the president has done — ignored our immigration laws.
Fred O’Regan
| Feb. 3, 2012, 10:39 a.m.
Saving dolphins has always been a nonpartisan issue. The tragedy currently unfolding in the cold, muddy marshes of Cape Cod is deeply troubling to many Americans and has captured worldwide attention.
Byron Dorgan
| Feb. 2, 2012, Midnight
A recent ruling by the Federal Communications Commission will determine who will and who won’t have access to high-speed connections to the Internet in the years ahead. In short, it will have a big effect on which areas of the country will move ahead and which will be left behind.
Elizabeth Kucinich
| Feb. 2, 2012, Midnight
Is Congress capable of linking science, ethics and fiscal responsibility to pass legislation? The federal government has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars on chimpanzee research for decades. Now, with the release of a new report from the National Academies’ Institute of Medicine, we see that our tax dollars have been wasted.
John Carlin and Mark E. Keenum
| Feb. 2, 2012, Midnight
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the U.S. system of land-grant colleges and universities. It’s an opportune time, especially in light of government budget woes, to take stock of the benefits land-grant institutions have produced over the years — and to step up our investments in their potential to help lead America into a new era of scientific discovery and economic progress.
Rep. James Langevin
| Feb. 1, 2012, Midnight
The dialogue on cybersecurity has come a long way in the past few years. The news is awash with stories of theft of personal financial information, silent but effective espionage against our defense establishment and the potential effect of attacks against our pervasively networked critical infrastructure. However, the time for simply talking about solutions is quickly running out.
Steve Caldeira
| Feb. 1, 2012, Midnight
As an industry that represents a wide cross-section of small businesses, including restaurants, health care, hotels, business services, automotive and retail, franchising is a leading indicator of where the economy is heading. And there are reasons for optimism in our industry’s performance history and its outlook for 2012.
Jerry Ellig
| Jan. 31, 2012, Midnight
Two years after its passage, the 2010 health care overhaul is still a topic of contention. Just this month, several state attorneys general filed an amicus brief supporting the law. This comes shortly after the Department of Justice filed merit briefs in the same case pending before the Supreme Court.
Martin Sullivan
| Jan. 30, 2012, Midnight
The stage is set for an epic political battle. It’s an election year. The unemployment rate is 8.5 percent. And the Bush-era tax cuts, extended in 2010 by President Barack Obama, are set to expire at the end of 2012.
Michael S. Lubell
| Jan. 30, 2012, Midnight
While Members of Congress and presidential candidates have been busy beating each other up over whether millionaires are job creators or job destroyers, they have lost sight of who really spurs America’s economic growth. It’s not the fat cats on Wall Street. It’s the smart cats in the research laboratories.
Peter J. Wallison
| Jan. 26, 2012, Midnight
In October 1992, Congress adopted Title XIII of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992, which, among other things, required Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to direct a substantial portion of their mortgage financing to borrowers who were at or below the median income in their communities.
Rep. Sam Graves
| Jan. 26, 2012, Midnight
The foundation of our national economy is American small businesses — our nation’s strongest job creators. Helping them thrive is the most important thing we can do to fix our unemployment crisis and grow the economy.
Linda Juszczak
| Jan. 26, 2012, Midnight
Across the country, more than 2,000 centers provide high-quality, comprehensive medical care, mental health services, social services and youth development to 1.7 million students. These services are offered without concern for a student’s ability to pay and in a location that meets children and adolescents where they are: at school.
Geoffrey Anderson
| Jan. 25, 2012, Midnight
President Barack Obama and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke seem enamored with renting foreclosed properties to blunt price decreases and to stir economic recovery, but that’s a bandage for symptoms as opposed to a real cure.
Michael Shank and Melissa Powell
| Jan. 25, 2012, Midnight
With last month’s climate talks in South Africa postponing specific carbon cuts until 2020, it is clear that something more than mere nation-state commitments will be needed to counter climate change and reduce global warming.
