Health insurance for poor kids
This past weekend the President signed a short-term extension of a program that finances health insurance for children, called SCHIP: the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. We expect the...
View ArticleA bipartisan economic booster shot
Last Friday the President spoke about the need for additional Congressional action on the economy. Outsiders are referring to this as fiscal stimulus. We’ve been calling it a growth package. There’s a...
View ArticleEnacting President Bush’s growth proposal
About three hours ago, the President signed into law H.R. 5140, The Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 , less than four weeks after he first proposed Congressional action. We are enormously pleased with...
View ArticleFood prices & food aid
The President spoke this afternoon about high food prices and food aid. If you’d like more detail, here’s our “fact sheet.” And if you really want to dive down deep, here is a transcript of a press...
View ArticleAddress by President Bush on financial markets
President Bush gave a major policy address on the State Floor of the White House this evening. THE WHITE HOUSE State Floor 9:01 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. This is an extraordinary period for...
View ArticleThe President's speech on financial markets and the world economy
President Bush spoke at the Manhattan Institute today on financial markets and the world economy. This speech is a prelude to the financial summit the President will host this weekend. I’ll write...
View ArticleHealth spending fallacy
The President emphasized the importance of health care reform in Tuesday evening’s press conference. One of his arguments was that reforming health care would help address federal and state government...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Kennedy health care bill
Over the weekend a draft of Senator Kennedy’s (D-MA) health care bill leaked. After playing with Adobe Acrobat, here is the text of the draft Kennedy bill as a text file (173 K), and as a single...
View ArticleUnderstanding the House Democrats' health care bill
Yesterday I posted and described the draft Kennedy-Dodd health care bill. Today I would like to do the same for an outline produced by House Democrats. Here is a three-page outline of “Key Features of...
View ArticleWhy do so many Americans pay no income taxes?
Today many are discussing how many Americans do not owe income taxes. The traditional debate splits along partisan lines. Many Republicans and conservatives argue it is both unfair and politically...
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