Wasted War Spending – $900 More of it This Week!
Posted by Jim Harper
This week, the House and Senate may vote on the final version of legislation to spend more money in Iraq and Afghanistan. H.R. 2346 is called the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009. It will spend a little over $900 per U.S. family.
Now here’s a timely coincidence. The Commission on Wartime Contracting is slated to come [...]
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Battling Bedbugs
Posted by Jim Harper
Back when this blog was just in diapers, we got a lot of attention for calling out a proposal for a new federal law on bedbugs. “No issue is too small for your Congress to handle,” I wrote. The public reacted.
Well, the bill didn’t pass, but the feds are on the bedbug case all the [...]
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