Emergency spending is an annual tradition in Washington, D.C.—as routine as kids going after those summer jobs. So it’s wonderfully appropriate to see that H.R. 4899, the Disaster Relief and Summer Jobs Act of 2010, will be up for consideration soon. Yes, you got that right. The bill spends money on disaster relief . . [...]
The drama of the financial services bailout, coming right at the end of the congressional session and the beginning of the new fiscal year, was very distracting. So distracting that it was easy to miss the partial/temporary spending bill that Congress hurriedly passed. The bill (now law) is Public Law 110-329, the Consolidated Security, Disaster [...]
I came across an interesting article in my Labor Day weekend reading. (Yes, I do know how to have a good time.) “What’s the Emergency?” [PDF; scroll down a bit] is the name of an article in the Summer 2008 issue of Regulation magazine, and it illustrates yet another dimension of how the federal spending [...]