Appropriations

Wall Street Reform: Taking a Knife to a Gunfight

Sanjay Sanghoee | Posted 05.24.2012

Sanjay Sanghoee

If Congress is truly serious about banking reform, it needs more than just well-intentioned laws: it also needs the right people to enforce those laws, it needs to give those people the resources they require to do their job properly, and it needs to pay them decently.

White House Makes Big Threat Against GOP Bill

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.07.2012

WASHINGTON -- The White House on Monday vowed to veto a House spending bill for the Justice Department, NASA and several other agencies, charging its ...

Women in Combat: The Crow Is Cooking

Greg Jacob | Posted 04.18.2012

Greg Jacob

Women in the military are being held back simply because they are women. Such an idea is not only completely at odds with military ethics, but is distinctly un-American.

Taking Care of America's Best Idea

Tom Kiernan | Posted 04.09.2012

Tom Kiernan

We must address our unsustainable deficit, but we are also in the midst of a recession. In any economy, it just doesn't make sense to compromise America's "best idea," our national parks.

Government Spending Bill Takes Shape Behind Closed Doors

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 02.11.2012

WASHINGTON — Weary after a year of partisan bickering, lawmakers reached a tentative agreement Monday on a sprawling $1 trillion-plus spending b...

Why is Congress Making a Bad Situation Worse?

Bill Meadows | Posted 02.08.2012

Bill Meadows

The House Republican leadership is wading into dangerous waters by trying to sneak these dangerous riders into badly needed funding legislation, threatening to shutter the government if they don't get their way.

Clean Water Under Attack - Again

Steve Fleischli | Posted 01.11.2012

Steve Fleischli

It seems a week doesn't go by where an extremist in Congress isn't threatening to undo our basic environmental laws. This week is no exception.

Congress, Super Committee Running Out Of Time

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 01.08.2012

WASHINGTON — A sputtering Congress enveloped in an atmosphere poisoned with politics and distrust enters its final weeks of the year struggling ...

Andrea Stone

Intelligence 'Black Budget' Cost Taxpayers $54.6 Billion in 2011

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.28.2011

WASHINGTON -- Congress appropriated a whopping $54.6 billion for classified intelligence operations in 2011, an increase over the previous two years. ...

Jordan Howard

Waxman Calls House Most Anti-Environment 'In History'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Howard | Posted 11.15.2011

WASHINGTON -- During the 112th Congress, the Republican House majority has taken aim at issues ranging from labor protections to women's right to choo...

Democrats Aim To Boost Disaster Aid For Hurricanes Irene, Katrina, Setting Up Fight With GOP

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 11.06.2011

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats unveiled legislation Tuesday providing $6 billion in new disaster aid to help both victims of Hurricane Irene and ...

Jordan Howard

House GOP To Push Anti-Environment Provisions

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Howard | Posted 10.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans are looking to appropriations bills they plan to debate when they return from recess in September as an opportunity to...

Moving Beyond Oil and Stopping a Bad Bill

Michael Brune | Posted 10.04.2011

Michael Brune

With all the attention on the debt-ceiling, it was easy to miss some of the other news coming from Washington. The White House announced a proposed fuel-efficiency standard for passenger cars and trucks of 54.5 miles per gallon.

Why Do the New House Republicans Hate the Bald Eagle?

Leda Huta | Posted 09.25.2011

Leda Huta

Protecting endangered species should once again be a bipartisan priority. Putting the laws that protect species at risk puts all of us at risk.

Joshua Hersh

House Dem: Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing Was 'A Zoo'

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 09.23.2011

WASHINGTON -- Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee left for their weekend recess Friday still fuming over a two-day mark-up session that s...

Extinction Rider Puts Us All in Danger

Jamie Rappaport Clark | Posted 09.21.2011

Jamie Rappaport Clark

Next week, the U.S. House of Representatives plans to pass an ill-conceived budget bill for the Interior Department that would paralyze our nation's programs for protecting imperiled plants and animals.

Starving SEC Helps No One But Wall Street

The New York Times | James B. Stewart | Posted 09.15.2011

The economy is still suffering from the worst financial crisis since the Depression, and widespread anger persists that financial institutions that ca...

House Leadership Supported Massive Giveaways to Big Ag while Taking a Chainsaw to Nutrition & Food Safety

Elizabeth Kucinich | Posted 09.04.2011

Elizabeth Kucinich

The last thing our country needs is a taxpayer-funded subsidy system that favors the very foods that contribute to heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. But that's exactly what key members in the House are standing behind.

Amanda Terkel

GOP Cuts Food Assistance For Low-Income Families While Protecting Azaleas

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 08.14.2011

WASHINGTON -- If you're an azalea at the National Arboretum, you're in luck -- a Republican on the House Appropriations Committee is looking out for y...

Agricultural Policy Should Fuel Health, Not Epidemics!

Elizabeth Kucinich | Posted 07.24.2011

Elizabeth Kucinich

In 2009, USDA spent more than twice as much buying meat and dairy as it did on fruits and vegetables. What that means is that the USDA used taxpayers' money to buy about $1.5 billion worth of meat and dairy.

Elise Foley

GOP Policy Leader: Boehner Will Need Dems To Pass Funding Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 06.08.2011

This story has been updated. WASHINGTON -- A deal has been reached to keep the federal government running, but not all House Republicans are please...

The "Untouchable" $23.6 Billion

Ernest Istook | Posted 05.25.2011

Ernest Istook

Untouchable. That's the treatment being given to the $23.6 billion being spent right now to implement Obamacare.

Deficit Reduction Requires Shared Sacrifice

Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Sen. Bernie Sanders

The corporate media have been very lax in describing the devastating and unprecedented pain that the Republican House passed budget bill would bring. Let me briefly mention just a very few of their cuts.

Mexico's Economy Is the Problem That Anti-Immigrant Laws Won't Solve

Bill Ong Hing | Posted 05.25.2011

Bill Ong Hing

Conservatives should understand that an economic turnaround in Mexico is central to solving the undocumented migration challenge in the United States.

Proposed Spending Cuts Will Sacrifice Lives in Africa

Matthew Kavanagh | Posted 05.25.2011

Matthew Kavanagh

Among these cuts is a plan to slash more than $1 billion from global health programs. By my calculations these cuts will kill over a million people in Africa.