Sen. Scott Brown Delivers Weekly Republican Address

Earlier in the health care debate, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave Republicans in Congress just hours to read a thousand page, trillion dollar health care bill before voting on it. 

Now, according to news reports yesterday, she is laying plans to skip the trouble of voting on the bill altogether.  By using a procedural trick called ‘deem and pass,’ Nancy Pelosi is setting the stage to pass a massive health care overhaul without ever having a vote on it in the U.S. House. 

Constitutional

Is Obama’s Treasury Secretary playing chicken with our credit ratings agency? Today, at a House Appropriations Committee hearing, Tim Geithner was asked about Moody’s “warning shots” of America losing its triple A credit rating because of increasing deficits and debt, to which he responded:

                There's not a chance that's going to happen to our country.

We hope for the sake of our country that Geithner is right, because as CNBC’s Trish Regan explained today on MSNBC, a downgrade in

It’s “Sunshine Week” in Washington, which means that the White House is again talking the transparency talk without walking the transparency walk. The Washington Post writes that the departments of State, Transportation, Treasury, NASA  and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have fulfilled noticeably fewer FOIA requests and denied more of them since Obama took office. And The Associated Press reported that government use of legal exemptions to keep information secret has increased by a third