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.

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.

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

The longer the White House and Congress continue to treat "war-related" funding as a separate item from the budget for the Department of Defense, the harder it will be to control a ballooning budget.

Lessons from Thirty-two Years in Washington

This will be the last installment for this reporter after roughly twenty years of preparing literally hundreds of these newsletters--and eighteen years with the U.S. Senate.

It is always a balancing act trying to be topical when the final draft is submitted over a month before...

Politicians may cry crocodile tears about deficit spending, but their actions demonstrate that they remain addicted to big government.

Obama's military budget presages retreat.