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Table 1: Estimated Economic Impact of S. 2191 Table 2: Changes in Household Energy Prices Due to S. 2191 Chart: Economic Impact by Congressional District Workers and families in the state of Oregon may be wondering how climate change legislation before Congress would affect their income, their jobs, and the cost of energy.

The 2010 Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act spawned approximately 400 separate rulemakings across the financial sector, and was the most extensive financial regulatory bill since the 1930s.

Social Security’s Disability Insurance (SSDI) program has existed for nearly 60 years. Over that time, it has morphed from a relatively small-scale, anti-poverty program into a massive system that provides benefits to one out of every 20 working-age individuals. Despite its size and expense, the program fails to keep millions out of poverty.

After spending decades trying reduce health care costs, somecommentators and policymakers now argue that health care costs should be increased to stimulate the economy. These two notions arefundamentally at odds with each other.

Facts are powerful and stubborn things. Unfortunately, some on the Left have tried to advance their arguments by using facts about state murder rates that, while technically true, are at best meaningless when taken out of context and at worst misleading and downright dangerous when used as the basis for public policy decisions. Enter the “Red State Murder Problem.” It sounds ominous, but it’s not. It is also highly misleading.

Research suggests that these tax cuts did influence corporatebehavior.

CTJ's report on corporate taxation is riddled with errors.

While the bill would give a boost to pensions and PBGC, it stillleaves several loopholes wide open.

A poll has suggested as many as 83 per cent of Austrians believe that all of the country's politicians are corrupt.

The future of health care in America looks grim—but it does not have to be. Representative Paul Ryan (R–WI) has proposed “A Roadmap for America’s Future”—the only comprehensive plan in Washington that deals with the looming fiscal and economic crisis, driven by ever-increasing government spending on health care. Ryan’s Roadmap would reduce the deficit, allow Medicare to become truly sustainable, establish equity and efficiency in the federal tax treatment of health insurance, and i...