The problem of coverage for pre-existing conditions remains relatively small and limited to the individual health insurance market, despite exaggerated claims used to advance passage of the Affordable Care Act. Nevertheless, too many people still remained at risk of falling through the cracks of protective measures provided by HIPAA, COBRA, and state-run high risk pools.

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.

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How has supplemental spending been used over the past twenty-five years?

In a NRO symposium, Veronique de Rugy offers her advice to the Republican minority leadership.

Simple reforms would be enough to address the supplemental spending shell game that Capitol Hill and the White House have been playing for years.

Imagine if Montgomery and Helderman's editor had demanded that they deliberately slant a story to benefit an advertiser, and they and the rest of the reporting staff responded by walking out and shutting down the paper in protest. Would it be accurate to say that Washington Post reporters picked a fight?

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As Congress ends its consideration of the $87 billion supplemental appropriations bill for operations and assistance in Iraq and Afghanistan, many questions remain. Iraq is a nation with rich natural and human resources, but its most profitable sectors have been devastated by Saddam’s long rule, sanctions, and...