While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into mor….

Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed tho….

The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Admin….

First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in Ameri….

Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physici….

Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action..

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government..

We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd ….

If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than putting it in any bank as a ….

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years..

Under the AHP approach, the average small business might be able to offer their employees one or two insurance plans, and that employee of the small ….

This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership..

It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away..

This is a simple change that will provide a huge financial boost for many Americans, particularly low- to moderate-income families. It is an importan….

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history..

Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about governments failure to fix real problems..

If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy..

Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has h….