As Congress
gets its turn in the pilory, with allegations of sexual harassment, crude behavior, and assorted ugliness tearing through the marble halls and wooden egos of the political class, it's worth recalling that members of the congressional club have a pretty good gig. Need proof?
The week after Thanksgiving brought with it one of the more bizarre tales to ooze out of the DC swamp -- a political and legal fight for control of a powerful federal agency most people have never heard of:
One area where the federal government has expanded its power the most, and with the least public awareness, is through something called the administrative state. The term generally describes how vague laws and congressional indifference to its own constitutional powers combine to put too much discretion, and power, in the hands of unelected bureaucrats.
Former IRS bureaucrat Lois Lerner and her one-time aid Holly Paz are asking a federal court to permanently seal the testimony they gave in a proceedings from a class action suit brought over their role
Away from the glare of the tax cut battle on Capitol Hill, the Trump administration continues to make progress on one of the President's key campaign issues: deregulation.
The Senate has put foward its version of a tax cut plan, but with one big addition: the Senate would also do away with the Obamacare individual mandate, and shift those resources to help "pay" for its suggested cuts. What does this mean? From the Wall Street Journal:
IRS commissioner John Koskinen has finally left office.
