Government can be a powerful and positive force in everyone's life. We must continue to spread that message to everyone in this city, state and country.

In response to the Obama campaign's aggressive focus on issues that affect women, such as health care, abortion, birth control and equal pay, Mitt Rom...

WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's frequent remarks about the nation's unemployment problem have long included one curiosit...

WASHINGTON -- Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) criticized public-sector unions on Sunday, saying they should be eliminated entirely. "There's, I thin...

Isn't it funny how no one in the media is asking why over 600,000 jobs in the public sector (mostly government jobs) have been slashed while the private sector is steadily growing?

Perhaps the best that can be said about Obama's preemptive sacrifice to the deficit-reduction gods -- a two-year freeze on pay for non-military federal workers -- is that it represents small change. But the price isn't as small as the numbers suggest.

One of the themes of the Tea Party and others on the right has been how good government workers have it. I never knew I had it so good.

Public rancor directed at government workers is a bit confounding. It's on all levels: state, local, federal. Much of this particular election cycle ...

With elections and budget crises looming, public unions have entered the spotlight once again, providing much fodder for critics who say labor costs are above budget levels.

For years, most people who worked for state or local governments accepted a fact of life: Their pay wasn't great. The job security was. Now that's go...