“I want to see a stimulus package sooner rather than later. If it does not get done in the lame duck session, it will be the first thing I get done as President of the United States.”
So said President-Elect Barack Obama at his first press conference this past week.
Will subsidies for broadband be part [...]
I wrote here six weeks ago about how the telecommunications subsidy programs run by the Federal Communications Commission were poorly run and subject to waste, fraud, and abuse.
Well, evidently, the FCC got the message and has cleaned up its act! Or started to . . . . Or at least they did something.
Today, [...]
One of the most visited bills on WashingtonWatch.com this week is H.R. 2774, The Solar Energy Research and Advancement Act of 2007. It has been reported from committee, which means that it is ready for the full House of Representatives to debate. The bill would establish a group of programs and subsidies to [...]
Last night, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer had an interesting piece on the plight of commercial fishing industry under higher fuel costs.
What’s to be done with the economic dislocations underway in the industry? Fisherman Lewis Hill has an idea:
Well, the government subsidized the farmers; they’ve been bailing the airlines out; they’ve been bailing the [...]