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MIAMI<br /> - Federal lawmakers have passed a bill that will give social workers better access to school records in an effort to improve dismal education outcomes for foster children

The drip-drip-drip of the law’s taxes, mandates, and dislocations will continue.

America is at a moment that requires big solutions to big problems. Instead, Washington politicians have engineered a last minute backroom deal that does not address America's jobs and debt crisis.

At a time when families across the country are cutting back we should not increase government spending and add to the debt burden by giving members of Congress a pay raise.

The State Department officials said to have resigned in the aftermath of the Benghazi terrorist attack that killed Americans still have their jobs.

Legislators have been pushing the President to rethink a portion of his Affordable Care Act, which would add a 2.3 percent tax on all medical devices. Will the tax kill jobs?