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  • Senator Conrad Budget

    By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 8th, 2009Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) last Thursday on the Senate floor exposed a number of GOP distortions, half-truths and flat-out lies regarding that chamber’s Fiscal…

  • Gao Oil Gas Companies Royalties

    By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 2nd, 2009The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released a tough review exposing the InteriorDepartment’s poor oversight of oil and gas companies which are allowed to…

  • Republicans Aig Bonuses

    By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 25th, 2009Senate Republicans appear set to effectively kill any reasonable attempt to reclaim the bonuses which”bailout” companies like insurance giant American International Group (AIG) are…

  • Bush Renditions

    By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 21st, 2009An eye-opening Congressional Research Service report issued on January 21st, 2009, the day afterPresident Obama took office, discussed the explosive subject of rendition–which the…

  • Gao Transportation

    By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 10th, 2009President Obama’s plan to rebuild U.S. infrastructure is both a vital effort to rebuild the country’s crumbling transportation system and a boost to its…

  • Mortgages

    By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 5th, 2009An industry survey has revealed that a whopping 48 percent of those with a sub-prime, adjustable-ratemortgage either are failing to keep up with their…

  • GOP Stimulus Dollars

    By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 4th, 2009Republican state governors such as Bobby Jindal (Louisiana), Rick Perry (Texas) and Haley Barbour(Mississippi) recently have produced quite a spectacle with their rejection of…

  • Hud Mortgages

    By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 18th, 2009For too long, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has been little more than a second-tier federal agency. But America’s current economic…

  • Economic Stimulus

    By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 14th, 2009 Congressional negotiators announced a stimulus deal on Wednesday which forged a somewhat slimmer $787 billion economic plan than what President Barack Obama had…

  • Gao High Risk Economy

    By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 7th, 2009Every two years, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) releases an updated list of federaloperations, programs and policies that either are “high risks” for…

  • Obama Lobbyists

    By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 2nd, 2009President Barack Obama may have banned earmarks in his $825 billion economic stimulus package, butlobbyists, lawmakers and interest groups will still be allowed to…

  • Stimulus Deficit

    Our federal deficit problem “is overwhelmingly the result of other factors,’ declares think-tank.By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 29th, 2009President Obama’s $825 billion economic stimulus package is a much-needed boost that…

  • Vet Long Term Care

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 26th, 2009A January 2009 Government Accountability Office (GAO) study reveals that the Veterans Affairs Office isfailing to provide Congress and the American people with adequate…

  • Obama Economic Plan

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 24th, 2009Let’s face it: The chief reason Barack Obama now sits in the White House is that he definitely is not George W. Bush.The first…

  • Obama Aides 1St 100 Hours

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 20th, 2009A number of vans parked at the Capitol were scheduled to shuttle a few select aides to the White House themoment Barack Obama was…

  • Dr King Mountaintop Speech

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 19th, 2009This day both commemorates the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and is the eve of the inauguration for America’s first black president,…

  • Obama Rule Of Law

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 15th, 2009Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) on December 10th sent an impassioned letter to President-elect BarackObama, which prompted the incoming Administration to “restore the rule of…

  • Questions Bailout Money

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 9th, 2009The leader of a congressional committee watching over America’s $700 billion financial bailout plan has toldreporters she is “shocked” that government officials can’t determine…

  • Obama Jobless Benefits

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 4th, 2009President-elect Barack Obama is speaking with Congressional Democrats about making a significantexpansion of unemployment benefits and federally-assisted health care insurance part of an ambitioustwo-year…