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Congress Still Ignores Entitlement Monster: Congress is spending us into a hole. We hear about the cost of earmarks and the Iraq war. But what about "entitlements"? That's the government's ironic term for programs that transfer money from people who earned it to people who didn't. Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else's...; Tags: Congressional Budget Office, entitlement, FINANCE, Government, HEALTHCARE, Medicaid, Monster, Ryan, SOFTWARE, Taxes, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2008-06-16
McCain's Veepstake's: Rob Portman: Third in a Series I recently interviewed Rob Portman, the onetime Ohio congressman who has served President Bush as international trade representative and director of the Office of Management and Budget. Just hours before the interview, I was dining with another Buckeye State Republican, House GOP Leader John...; Tags: Benefits, entitlement, HEALTHCARE, Medicare, SOFTWARE, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2008-04-21
Costs of entitlements must be addressed: "The longer lawmakers wait to enact the necessary reforms, the more painful those reforms will be." Referring to "the unsustainable long-term costs of entitlements," Heritage Foundation analyst Brian Riedl pointed to a problem few legislators are willing to discuss.; Tags: entitlement, Heritage Foundation, legislator; Research articles 2008-03-03
State of the Union Excerpts: To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: White House Press Office, +1-202-456-2580 WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following are excerpts from President Bush's State of the Union excerpts, as prepared for delivery: "The actions of the 110th Congress will affect the security and prosperity of our Nation long after this session...; Tags: agreement, America, entitlement, immigration, Iran, Iraq, liberty, prosperity, security, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2008-01-28
Federal (in) action: it's hard to get much done in our nation's Capitol these days.: [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If you've been frustrated by the gridlock in our nation's capital over the past 12 months--not to mention the bickering, posturing and partisanship--better restock your cache of Valium, because 2008 will be even worse. That, at least, is the word according to...; Tags: Benefits, entitlement, HEALTHCARE, president, SOFTWARE, Transportation, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2008-01-01

Sleepwalking Toward DD-Day: Congress, creating yet another entitlement, is not at all inhibited by the Law of Holes, which is: When you are in a hole, quit digging. Last Thursday was 96 days before DD-Day, the day the Demographic Deluge begins. That is Jan. 1, when the first of 78 million baby...; Tags: Benefits, entitlement, HEALTHCARE, SOFTWARE, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2007-10-08
Long-Term Fiscal Burdens Continue to Pile Up: "The most serious threat to the United States," U.S. Comptroller General David Walker has warned, "is not someone hiding in a cave in Afghanistan or Pakistan but our own fiscal irresponsibility." Walker, the federal government's chief auditor, has been traveling across the country like a modern Paul Revere encouraging ordinary...; Tags: Benefits, entitlement, FINANCE, HEALTHCARE, income, Sen., SOFTWARE, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2007-07-16
Press Briefing by Director of OMB Rob Portman on the Budget: WASHINGTON -- Room 350 Eisenhower Executive Office Building 2:02 P.M. EDT DIRECTOR PORTMAN: What I'd like to do today is just briefly go over the mid-session review. You all have it now, I assume. I also have given you some charts or slides to take a look...; Tags: director, entitlement, FINANCE, Government, HEALTHCARE, president, revenue, ROBINSON, Taxes, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate; Research articles 2007-07-11
"Absolute entitlement" and its important for beneficiaries of deceased estates.: Byline: Georgina Thomson and Joanna Marwood Jun 28, 2007 (Taxation in Australia - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian Taxation Office, the Treasury Department and the tax profession are currently working to clarify the meaning of "absolute entitlement". When considered in the context...; Tags: Australian Taxation Office, beneficiary, entitlement, FINANCE, Taxes; Research articles 2007-06-28
Valad is in the money.: Byline: Robert Harley Jun 27, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Macquarie Bank, UBS and JP Morgan are handling Valad Property Group's non-renounceable entitlement offer and its upcoming retail offer. Over the three days to 28 June 2007, Valad has...; Tags: asset, entitlement, FINANCE, Investment, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., UBS AG; Research articles 2007-06-27
Blunt: Democrats' Budget Silent on Entitlement Reform, Outspoken on New Taxes: To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Burson Taylor Snyder or Amos Snead of the Office of the House Republican Whip Roy Blunt, +1-202-226-7022 WASHINGTON, May 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- House Republican Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.) released the following statement this afternoon after House and Senate Democrats agreed to a final version of the 2008...; Tags: Democrat, entitlement, FINANCE, Republican, Taxes, U.S. Senate; Research articles 2007-05-17
Workers want to avoid repeat of Ansett.: Byline: Mark Skulley and James Hall May 03, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Workers at Australian airline, Qantas Airways, want to protect their entitlements within their work conditions. The Australian Services Union, which represents about one third of the...; Tags: entitlement, Qantas Airways Ltd., worker; Research articles 2007-05-03
National Security Requires Healthy Defense Budget: A Conservative Agenda for the 110th Congress This is the third of a four-part series written by Heritage Foundation Vice President of Government Relations Mike Franc, discussing tin agenda for the new Congress, balancing the need for bipartisan cooperation against the temptation to veer too far leftward on...; Tags: entitlement, procurement, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2007-02-12
Statement by James Horney Director of Federal Fiscal Policy On Reinstatement of the Pay-As-You-Go Rule: To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Michelle Bazie of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, +1-202-408-1080 or bazie@cbpp.orgWASHINGTON, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statementby James Horney, director of Federal Fiscal Policy,on reinstatement of the pay-as-you-go rule:Today's House vote to reinstate the pay-as-you-go rule marks asignificant and welcome first step...; Tags: director, entitlement, FINANCE, surplus, Taxes, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2007-01-05
We Need More Conservatives in Congress: A Pre-Election Report From the Chairman of the Republican Study Committee As the November elections approach, it's time to take account of the modest-but meaningful-progress that the conservatives in the House Republican Study Committee RSC achieved in the 109th Congress. In this Congress, the RSC never stopped fighting...; Tags: entitlement, FINANCE, Government, president, Republican, Taxes, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2006-09-11
PanAust cashes up for Laos mine.: Byline: John Phaceas May 22, 2006 (The West Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Pan Australian Resources PanAust has launched a $US280m ($A364m) funding campaign for its Phu Kam copper and gold mine in Laos. The company has negotiated a $US140m underwritten...; Tags: Bluetooth, copper, entitlement, FINANCE, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., WIRELESS; Research articles 2006-05-22
Pan secures funding for Phu Kham.: Byline: Stephen Wisenthal May 22, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A financing package has yielded more than $A400 million in funding for the development of Pan Australian Resources' new mining project. Under the entitlement issue, underwritten by Goldman Sachs...; Tags: Bluetooth, copper, entitlement, FINANCE, financing, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Investment, WIRELESS; Research articles 2006-05-22
Entitlement creates overprivilege: Jon Saraceno's commentary about the Duke lacrosse team (Keeping score, "Alcohol turns tide of culture," April7) indicates alcohol is really just a symptom. The notion of entitlement he mentions -- including athletic-based -- is the root of the problem. The notion of the value to the greater good has been...; Tags: alcohol, Duke University, entitlement, FINANCE, football, Investment, Leadership, Manufacturing; Research articles 2006-04-11
Public Rights, Private Rights, and Statutory Retroactivity: INTRODUCTION In their ideal forms, legislation is prospective and general, while adjudication is retrospective and particular. To many, then, it comes as a surprise to learn that despite using a presumption of statutory prospectivity,1 the Supreme Court also employs a general principle allowing retroactive civil statutes if the legislature is...; Tags: agency, entitlement, FINANCE, Government, MARKETING, statute, taxation, Taxes, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2006-04-01
GOP House hopefuls weigh in on deficit spending.(Neighbor): Republican voters in the 8th Congressional District will choose from among six primary candidates March 21, all of whom want to unseat sitting Democratic congresswoman Melissa Bean in November. Bean has no Democratic challenger in the primary. GOP candidates are: Ken Arnold of Gurnee,...; Tags: agency, Bean, entitlement, Government, Ken, MARKETING, Republican, revenue, SOFTWARE, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2006-03-12