Consumer advocates, constitutional critics challenge Sen. Warren’s Dodd-Frank narrative

By   /  May 3, 2013  /  Accountability, Constitution, Economy, Federal Government, Finances, Free Market, individual rights, National, Power Abuse, Private property rights, Regulatory Reform, U.S. House of Represenatives, U.S. Senate  /  No Comments

Dodd-Frank legislation

By Kevin Mooney | Watchdog.org
Elizabeth Warren needs no introduction. But she does have some explaining to do.
The former Harvard Law School professor who is now a Democratic U.S. senator from Massachusetts, Warren played an instrumental role in setting up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created under Title X of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010.
She [...]

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Reform files: You can steal and still collect unemployment

By   /  April 2, 2013  /  Accountability, Featured, News, Regulatory Reform, Wisconsin  /  9 Comments

unemployment office

By M.D. Kittle | Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON – Patrick Buckley never thought he’d have to defend his business twice against theft – once from the thief and again from the government.
Buckley, owner and operator of a chain of 50 Subway sandwich restaurants in eastern and northern Wisconsin, says he got a most unusual question from an [...]

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No ‘Friends’ found in last episode of WI mining dramedy

By   /  March 7, 2013  /  Environment, Environmental, Featured, Governor, Legislature, mining, Mining Wisconsin, Regulations, Regulatory Reform, State Government, Wisconsin  /  2 Comments

A TIGHT GROUP: Wisconsin's mining bill saga comes to an end with, as expected, passage by majority Republicans.

Part 4 of 4 in the series Mining in Wisconsin

By Ryan Ekvall and M.D. Kittle | Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON – Two things were all but certain going into Thursday’s extended Assembly debate on the controversial mining bill: There would be enough grand-standing to choke a Trump, and, arguably, it would all be for naught.
Assembly Republicans had [...]

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Budget experts to Washington: Instead of sequester, cut the pork and get serious

By   /  February 28, 2013  /  Events, Featured, Governor, News, Regulatory Reform, State Politics, Texas, Transparency, Virginia  /  1 Comment

ANOTHER WAY: Budget experts say there's are much better reforms out there than the ones the "sequester" offers.

Part 9 of 11 in the series The Sequester

By Kathryn Watson | Watchdog.org Virginia Bureau
ALEXANDRIA — Budget experts have some sequester advice for Congress: Stop making mountains out of molehills.
Members of Congress need to stop exaggerating the consequences of spending cuts, expected to kick in at 11:59 p.m. Friday, and start tackling the actual mountain [...]

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Walker’s deal: Food stamps for job training

By   /  February 11, 2013  /  Featured, Federal Government, Governor, Legislature, News, Regulatory Reform, State Budgets, State Government, Wisconsin  /  16 Comments

Single, able-bodied adults receiving food stamps would have to enroll in a state-sponsored training program under a budget proposal by Gov. Scott Walker.

By M.D. Kittle |Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON – Gov. Scott Walker has a message for single, able-bodied adults on food stamps in Wisconsin: You will train for food.
The Republican governor spent Monday traveling the state and laying out a nearly $100 million workforce development campaign, including reform of the state’s FoodShare Employment and Training Program.
Federal law requires [...]

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