By Robert Litan (@BobLitan) Senator Marco Rubio argues that getting the economy to grow at a sustained rate of 4 percent a year would create millions of jobs and reduce the 10-year deficit by $4 trillion. Bloomberg Government senior economic …
Read More »Waiting for the Law in Dodge City
By Allan Holmes Congress has tried for years to pass legislation that protects individuals’ private information on everything from smartphones to what drones can collect. But some technology experts at Bloomberg’s Big Data Conference in Washington last week had a …
Read More »More Competition, Not Regulation, Is the Key to Faster Broadband
By Robert Litan (@BobLitan) It’s rare these days in Washington to find even a goal free of bitter partisan division. Fortunately, there is one: faster Internet access over “broadband” networks. In contrast to electricity, broadband isn’t an all-or-nothing proposition. There …
Read More »Democratic Districts More at Risk in Defense Cuts: BGOV Insight
By Robert Levinson (Bloomberg) — The impending cuts to defense spending — whether through sequestration or the multi-year spending caps in the Budget Control Act of 2011 — probably will hit districts represented by Democrats harder than those represented by …
Read More »Contractors to Take $30.8 Billion Sequester Cut
By Kevin Brancato and Anne Laurent Contractors probably will bear more than a third of $85.3 billion in automatic government budget cuts due March 1, according to data compiled by Bloomberg Government. Half of the reduction will come from defense, …
Read More »Wal-Mart Bribery Scandal Puts Spotlight on U.S. Anti-Corruption Law
by Sanford Rebback Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) — Federal regulators have taken heat for not cracking down enough on Wall Street misdeeds, but Washington’s watchdogs have been baring their teeth plenty when it comes to investigating the business of foreign corruption. …
Read More »Internet Panel Points to Progress and Pain: BGOV Insight
by Michael Nelson Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) — Ellen Miller, the Sunlight Foundation’s executive director, touts an ideal vision for a world in which “all public information is available online.” Today’s world is, unfortunately, not yet that place. That’s one of …
Read More »New Leadership at EPA and DOE Unlikely to Shift U.S. Energy Policy
President Barack Obama is expected to nominate soon a new Secretary of Energy and a new administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency. The conventional wisdom is that Ernest Moniz will be tapped to head the Department of Energy and Gina …
Read More »Drugmakers May Win Big in Effort to Curb Gun Violence
by Matt Barry February 8 (Bloomberg) — Reducing gun violence by increasing access to mental health services may cost billions of taxpayer dollars and give drugmakers that help treat mental illness a revenue windfall. But will it reduce gun violence? …
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