The 113th Congress opened for business on Thursday and they’re already embroiled in a controversy. House leaders, in the fact of fierce criticism, reversed course and said they’d schedule a vote for Friday on the first installment of relief for victims of Superstorm Sandy.
Across the country, states’ and local governments have been getting to the difficult work of balancing their bottom lines. In New Jersey, Republican Governor Chris Christie proposed a $29.4 billion budget which, he argues, reduces state spening by 2.6 percent for the 2012 fiscal year. The governor went on to describe a “new normal” of […]