Dec. 1, 2015
Greetings from Washington, where Josh Siegel lays out a Senate plan to end expanded Medicaid under Obamacare. One Heritage Foundation economist exposes the cold cash in Obama's climate change agenda in Paris, while another shows why conservatives won't like public education revisions. Speaking of waste, a U.S. senator blows the whistle on 100 examples. And investigative reporter Kevin Mooney has the lowdown on a 'public interest' nonprofit that boosts liberal causes.
At the kickoff of the talks in Paris, President Barack Obama remarked, "I've come here personally, as the leader of the world's largest economy and the second-largest emitter to say that the United States of America not only recognizes our role in creating this problem, we embrace our responsibility to do something about it."
Groups not in line with liberal causes apparently need not apply for grants from the flush health foundation, the California Endowment.
The federal government has "dropped the ball" by failing to curb wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars, Sen. James Lankford says. In a new report, he cites 100 examples. We highlight 17 of them.
At an event sponsored by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Sen. Chuck Schumer announced that Senate Democrats will "bring a universal background check bill to the floor of the Senate early next year."
The proposal creates several major new programs and initiatives, maintaining a "program for every problem" structure. As such, the proposal would likely maintain significant federal intervention in local school policy for years to come.
In a bid to win over conservatives, Senate Republicans plan to introduce an aggressive plan to repeal Obamacare that includes phasing out the expansion of Medicaid for low-income recipients.
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