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As has been pointed out repeatedly in the past few years, United States Postal Service (USPS) management continues to struggle mightily to enact efficiencies or carve out savings from its operations. And this continues to be the case despite the dramatic drop in mail volume and USPS Postmaster General (PMG) Megan Brennan’s regular declarations and […]
The Senate Budget Committee’s Chairman has introduced a new budget scorekeeping report on the Budget Committee’s website to provide a regular accounting of budget developments.
Mark Calabria is moving FHFA in a new direction and making taxpayers his top priority. Under the apathetic five-year tenure of FHFA Director Mel Watt, the government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) pursued risky private-sector strategies and an expansionary agenda, abusing the comforts of government control and exposing taxpayers to the risk of another massive bailout. Director […]
The D.C. City Council could approve one of the highest soda taxes in the nation. On October 7, 2019, D.C. Councilmember Brianne Nadeau (D-Ward 1) introduced the Healthy Beverage Choices Act, which would place a 1.5 cent-per-ounce excise tax on sweetened beverages. The tax would be the third highest in the country, after Seattle, Washington and […]
His effort to enhance Medicare is commendable.
It is long past time to provide the telecommunications industry with certainty on how the internet will be regulated now and into the future.
Citizens who purchased health insurance on the Maryland Health Connection, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, marketplace exchange,saw their premiums drop an average of 13 percent in 2019 and will see an average 10 percent decrease starting January 2020. The 2019 decrease was the first time since ACA was implemented that […]
In the ongoing saga of the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud services contract, the bill and report language for S. 2474, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2020 was filed by Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) on September 12, 2019. Unlike its House of Representatives counterpart, H.R. […]
Today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) released the official summary and backgrounder of H.R. 3, “The Lower Cost Drugs Now Act,” although as of this posting, there is no bill language. It would exert so much government authority over the pharmaceutical industry that it would equal anything that communist and socialist leaders in other countries […]
The KC-46 is intended to serve multiple roles for the Air Force, but continued problems with the plane has created uncertainty. Thankfully, the Pentagon arranged a fixed-price contract for the aircraft.
