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will target government overregulation and waste of administrative state
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2024 @ 11:49 am
By: John Steed
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The GOP-led House voted on Thursday to pass another short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown over the objection of a group of conservative members who were angling to get border security reforms attached and rein in the national debt.
Published: Wednesday, February 14th, 2024 @ 11:23 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, staunchly resisting the leftists who have attacked his government’s plan to reform the country’s judiciary and bring it more into line with the judicial system in America, issued a special statement announcing he would not cave to the opposition.
Published: Monday, April 10th, 2023 @ 8:16 am
By: Daily Wire
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When the American people were debating whether to adopt our Constitution, North Carolina (a hotbed of anti-federalism) took the lead in ensuring the document was amended to include a bill of rights.
Published: Monday, January 20th, 2020 @ 6:53 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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History is full of examples of failed government reforms. Sometimes those failures stem from government agents’ inability or unwillingness to translate legislative reformers’ ideas into action.
Published: Tuesday, August 6th, 2019 @ 4:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Given the legislative logjams created by a divided federal government, it's safe to say that the chances of major health care reform in Congress are very low.
Published: Saturday, February 16th, 2019 @ 1:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What is the role of education in America? What is government’s role in providing that education
Published: Friday, June 29th, 2018 @ 6:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Since 2010, when voters put Republicans in charge of most state governments across the United States, North Carolina became one of about a half-dozen states where conservative reformers have frequently - and sometimes spectacularly - faced off with progressives in ways that have attracted significan
Published: Wednesday, April 11th, 2018 @ 12:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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President Donald J. Trump is taking steps to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which can serve as a model for wider government reform
Published: Thursday, February 1st, 2018 @ 1:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It's rare to see North Carolina lawmakers vote overwhelmingly against a bill. It's especially noteworthy when that "no" vote helps preserve one of state government's most valuable reforms
Published: Tuesday, June 6th, 2017 @ 10:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Judicial Watch announced it will host a March 30 presentation by U.S. Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: “Government Oversight Challenges.”
Published: Thursday, March 30th, 2017 @ 3:35 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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These are trying times for conservatives.
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2016 @ 8:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, members of the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform (OGR) Committee successfully agreed to send The Treatment of Certain Payments in Eugenics Compensation Act out of committee and to the House floor for an upcoming vote. The bipartisan legislation, originally...
Published: Wednesday, January 27th, 2016 @ 3:22 am
By: Chris Downey
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A recent Carolina Journal article highlighted an important ruling against an occupational license in Texas. North Carolina state leaders should take note.
Published: Monday, September 14th, 2015 @ 2:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It’s no secret there’s no love between the speaker and Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC). Jones voted against Boehner for renomination as speaker.
Published: Sunday, June 28th, 2015 @ 11:00 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Lower taxes and government spending. Energy policy reform.
Published: Wednesday, May 27th, 2015 @ 8:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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My budget incorporates initiatives from the North Carolina Government Efficiency and Reform program (NC GEAR) that will save more than $14 million in year one and more than $57 million in year two of the biennium, with a savings over ten years conservatively estimated at more than $615 million in...
Published: Friday, March 13th, 2015 @ 3:43 am
By: Chris Downey
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Problems with Workers Compensation: Workers compensation claims have cost the taxpayers $896 million dollars during the past six years...
Published: Sunday, February 8th, 2015 @ 7:56 pm
By: Chris Downey
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The unemployment insurance debt owed to the federal government by North Carolina has dropped by nearly $2 billion under the reforms implemented by Governor Pat McCrory.
Published: Tuesday, August 19th, 2014 @ 6:19 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Ongoing Medicaid reform initiatives seeking to rein in unnecessary spending and better coordinate patient care may improve North Carolina's medical assistance program to a degree, and the special interests involved ostensibly have good intentions.
Published: Sunday, August 17th, 2014 @ 8:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday ruled 2-1 that the federal government cannot tax employers in order to provide health insurance subsidies in North Carolina and 35 other states that refused to establish Obamacare exchanges, potentially threatening the national health reform.
Published: Friday, July 25th, 2014 @ 8:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The DES implemented several process improvements to reduce the amount of time needed for people appealing their unemployment benefit eligibility. The average wait time has been reduced from 279 days to 33 days as of February 2014.
Published: Wednesday, June 25th, 2014 @ 10:35 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Indeed, even in our state of North Carolina, where the first solidly Republican government in over 100 years won monumental victories, such as the end of tenure in K-12 education and major changes to the tax code, there was almost no reform for higher education.
Published: Thursday, October 10th, 2013 @ 6:26 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The 2013 legislative session has at times been contentious, sometimes controversial, often frustrating, but in the end, very successful. This has been a good...
Published: Friday, August 2nd, 2013 @ 1:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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By a vote of 4 to 3, the Beaufort County Commissioners voted by resolution to support the United States Congress in its efforts in comprehensive immigration providing that our borders are secured first.
Published: Sunday, July 7th, 2013 @ 6:30 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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"Logrolling" is a budgeting technique whereby spending items favored by one legislative chamber are added during conference budget negotiations.
Published: Thursday, June 27th, 2013 @ 10:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A government reform group is making another push for changes in the way North Carolina draws legislative maps as the...
Published: Sunday, June 23rd, 2013 @ 12:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Governor Pat McCrory signed House Bill 4, the first step towards paying off North Carolina's $2.5 billion debt to the federal government and reforming North Carolina's unemployment insurance system.
Published: Thursday, February 21st, 2013 @ 6:41 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This time, it's the new Financial State of the States report by the Institute for Truth in Accounting, an Illinois-based nonprofit that has been pushing governments to reform their accounting practices for more than a decade.
Published: Monday, September 10th, 2012 @ 9:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Progressives make a point that conservatives ought to take to heart: taxes are far from the only factors that households and businesses take into consideration when deciding where to live, work, invest, shop, or create new businesses.
Published: Sunday, April 15th, 2012 @ 12:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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