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We are glad to report that the dynamic scoring bill (HB 2786) has been voted out of the House Ways and Means Committee. This bill, sponsored by Rep. Ken Paxton would require that dynamic scoring be used to determine the affect on revenue of each bill passed by the legislature. Most calculations in both state […]

Even by Defense Department standards, the new V-22 Osprey tilt-prop plane is extraordinarily expensive and dangerous. The Washington Post reports that the aircraft is finally coming online after twenty years of cost overruns, fraud, and accidents claiming 26 lives. At a staggering $109 million per plane, its hard to see the value to […]

Tempers flare during this heated immigration debate on the O’Reilly Factor on Fox News.

Here is a good round up from our friends at Texans for Fiscal Responsibility.
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A quick House Appropriations hearing this week referred all the good tax and spending limitation legislation to a subcommittee chaired by stalwart conservative Carl Isett of Lubbock. The legislation will get a hearing this week, which means now is a […]

George Will on global warming craziness.  Without ever using the term “weighing the costs and benefits,” Will is able to convey the basic issue:  Wild eyed policy proposals require trade offs.  While it is easy to feel morally superior, the actual effects of our decisions are less obvious.
Money graph:
Speaking of Hummers, perhaps it is environmentally […]

Join FreedomWorks at a rally to stop the General Electric sell-out to anti-energy extremists!
When:
10:00 A.M. on April 25, 2007
Where:
The GE Annual Meeting of Shareholders
Carolina First Center (Formerly Palmetto Expo Center)
One Exposition Avenue
Greenville, SC 29607
Call FreedomWorks’ Southeast Regional Director, Allen Page at (336) 213-1167 to coordinate.

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the ranking member on the House Budget Committee, wrote a great piece for Human Events today. Here is an excerpt:
House Republicans and Democrats agree on one thing: Congress can and must balance the federal budget over the next five years. Where our approaches diverge sharply is how we go about […]

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today added “13,496 earmarks totaling more than $19 billion for Fiscal Year 2005 appropriations” to its online database. The site can be viewed at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/earmarks/index.html.
This is another important step forward in the effort to document, highlight, and eventually end the abuse and outright corruption in the appropriations […]

In letters addressed to the Massachusetts state legislature, FreedomWorks and Dick Armey urged support for the Massachusetts Cable Choice and Competition Act introduced by State Senator Steve Panagiotakos and State Representative Jim Vallee. As Armey noted, “Telephone and power companies stand ready to infuse billions of dollars into Massachusetts’ economy and telecommunications infrastructure. When […]