The Heartland Institute

The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are at odds over the outlines of a comprehensive farm bill, and an extension of the five-year-old law currently in effect may be necessary. Earlier this year, the Democrat-controlled House passed a $284 billion, five-year farm bill on a largely party-line vote, 231-191. More than ...

The politics behind the farm bill came into full view August 2, when the electronic scoreboard in the House showed a vote of 215-213 and the word FINAL in favor of a motion to deny illegal aliens benefits in the agriculture bill. The presiding officer, Rep. Mike McNulty (D-NY), interrupted as the clerk began to announce ...

On June 17, the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR 4520, the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, which repeals export subsidies found to be in violation of World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements. The violation had provoked the European Union (EU) to impose tariffs on U.S. companies beginning March 1. Retaliatory tariffs ...

Former U.S. Senator William V. Roth Jr., a fighter for tax cuts and IRS reformer during his five terms in Congress and creator of the popular retirement account that bears his name, died on December 13. He was 82. “Bill Roth was the epitome of public service in Delaware,” said Governor Ruth Ann Minner in a statement ...

Presidential hopeful Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Connecticut) fell into a tie for third place among Democrats running for their party’s Presidential nomination, according to an early fall CNN poll. Within days of the poll’s release, Lieberman issued a tax reform plan that would, according to his campaign Web site, increase taxes ...