Aug 3, 2012 | Op-Eds and Blogs
Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), along with several other colleagues in the Senate, are advocating the Department of Defense create a financial audit itemizing its spending habits.The proposal, called Audit the Pentagon Act, would give DoD new...
Aug 2, 2012 | Op-Eds and Blogs
In a surprising contrast from their hard-line stances during the spending and debt ceiling standoffs earlier this Congress, conservative Republicans, led by Sen. Jim DeMint (S.C.), became the leading voice for punting on a would-be standoff on fiscal 2013...
Aug 2, 2012 | Miscellaneous, Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – Senator Ron Johnson (WI) released the following statement regarding the President’s nomination of Wisconsin resident William Mielke to the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation:”I am pleased to learn that the President has...
Aug 2, 2012 | Op-Eds and Blogs
A bipartisan group of senators led by South Carolina Republican Jim DeMint introduced the Pay for Printing Act Thursday, which would require senators to pay for celebratory “simple resolutions” with money from their own budgets.During the 112th Congress,...
Aug 2, 2012 | Op-Eds and Blogs
The federal government needs to be able to protect itself from cyber attacks before it regulates security standards for private industry, two senators said Tuesday, echoing a consistent theme of opposition to the Cybersecurity Act of 2012.In an op-ed for Politico,...
