A new cost estimate for the health care bill that the House passed Saturday puts it at about $15,000 per U.S. family. That’s a lot of scratch! An earlier estimate came in at only half that much.
But it’s important not to over-read the estimate. Instead, familiarize yourself with our methodology for scoring bills. We count [...]
For the last hour-and-a-half or so, the comment function has been out of commission for H.R. 3548.
As I stepped out to a meeting, I noticed that the site was down, so I put my Web/database team on the case. They determined that traffic on H.R. 3548 was too high for our servers to handle and [...]
The bill to extend unemployment benefits another little while has gotten a score from the CBO. That’s the Congressional Budget Office, a small agency that does economic modeling and estimates about the spending and revenue effects of pending bills.
You can see the analysis itself by going to the “Learn More” box on the page for [...]
Happy Fourth of July!
What better way to celebrate the founding of our nation than . . . um, by . . . blogging?
Those were the words that introduced the WashingtonWatch.com blog one year ago yesterday – well, one year and two days ago.
That’s right, this blog debuted exactly one year ago, give or [...]
I’ve been traveling all this week and haven’t kept up with the regular blogging I try to do here. Sorry to those of you who live for the gems that show up on this blog. (Anyone? Anyone?)
Congress is out this week, so it’s a good time to not pay attention to them and spend time [...]
A WashingtonWatch.com user wrote in just now simply to say:
Thank you for the great job you do keeping us informed of all the issues going on in DC.
We don’t get a lot of thanks, so any word of praise is mightily appreciated. The one other good deed you can do is tell your friends and [...]
Here at WashingtonWatch.com, we work to simplify the complex process of lawmaking, but it’s still pretty complex. And following the issues that matter to you is hard to do. So here’s a quick primer on how to do that using this site.
Many bills have a list of subjects in the “Learn More” box. Here’s [...]
House Republicans are obviously trying to capitalize on the huge, unparalleled success of WashingtonWatch.com with its new “Washington Watch” feature.
Well, not so obviously. Watching Washington is something that a lot of people do, and there are a lot of newsletters and publications that have that phrase in them. But the original, the genuine article, the [...]
This morning the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform had a hearing entitled “The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: The Role of State and Local Governments.”
We’re just delighted to see that one of the witnesses, David Robinson, Associate Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University, has cited WashingtonWatch.com [...]
An enthusiastic welcome to everyone visiting H.R. 1475, the Federal Prison Work Incentive Act of 2009 this week.
By your numbers, you have toppled the equine cruelty issue from the top of the “active bills” list. Bills float to the top of this list based on the number of visits, and the horse people have kept [...]