On the disaster relief front, Cantor's office released a study by the majority staff of the House Appropriations Committee saying that offsets on disaster relief are actually commonplace, if not routine. I dug into their examples a bit, albeit with my limited expertise on what really goes down on the process for supplemental appropriations, and found the examples they used shaky at best.

The number of appropriators in the GOP leadership is disproportionate to the rest of the Republican caucus and jeopardizes the Party's hopes of retaking Congress by convincing voters that it can restore fiscal discipline.

Community colleges are subsidized through direct state and local government appropriations and through student grant programs. Every student who drops out represents an investment loss by the taxpayers in that student's uncompleted education.

Testimony in defense of the FDA, which has come under attack recently for its handling of drug safety.

Over the years, therehas been arise in economic inequality, growth in the middle class, low incomes are growing, and the progressive taxes keep thewealthy payinga large share of the tax burden.

How can the administration make tax policy as fair as possible?

A reformed United Nationscan be fashioned to more effectively meet the goals of its charter and the new challenges that it confronts.

If ever we need evidence of ideology run rampant, the House vote to eliminate the annual American Community Survey and the Economic Census to provide basic information on the state of businesses and industries in the country and data used for generating quarterly gross domestic product estimates is exhibit A.