Commentary

Congressional Spend-fest Continues

By Quin Hillyer
Thursday, June 14 2012

This country is still spending itself into oblivion, and not even the Republican House is putting up enough of a fight. But some individual House and Senate members still are battling, for the interests of both taxpayers and good social policy, and their efforts merit support. Red State reported the other day that the House wouldn’t even hold the line on fairly simple attempts to save money in the annual Appropriations bill for energy and water projects, which are notoriously bloated areas of discretionary spending. By a vote of 282-136, even with 27 Democrats voting for savings, the…

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