June 19, 2013

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Timothy P. Carney

Senior Political Columnist

Timothy P. Carney is a senior political columnist at the Washington Examiner and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also the author of "The Big Ripoff" (Wiley, 2006) and "Obamanomics" (Regnery, 2009).


Contributions from Timothy P. Carney

  • A hint of free-market populism: Hensarling on Boeing’s Bank

    By Timothy P. Carney | 06/13/13 12:50 PM

    The Export-Import Bank is a government agency that uses taxpayer-backed financing to subsidize U.S. exports — mostly Boeing jets. President Obama, while he was a candidate, called it “little more than a fund for corporate welfare.” Rep. Justin Amash and Sen. Mike Lee have introduced bills...

  • Tim Carney: Private contractors accelerate growth of government

    By Timothy P. Carney | 06/12/13 05:05 PM

    NSA leaker Edward Snowden didn't draw a paycheck from the federal government, but instead from a federal contractor, Booz Allen Hamilton, which brought in $1.3 billion for its government intelligence work, nearly a quarter of its revenue, according to the New York Times. Dozens of companies,...

  • Feds warn DC on anti-competitive Uber rules

    By Timothy P. Carney | 06/12/13 04:30 PM

    The Federal Trade Commission weighed in D.C.’s proposed taxi rules — not flexing the feds’ authority over the District, but simply as an informed commenter on the proposed rules. Praising the rules that allow for app-based limo services like Uber, the FTC still expresses “concern that...

  • Farming vs. capitalism

    By Timothy P. Carney | 06/11/13 03:25 PM

    Farmers take risks, buy things, sell things, borrow, invest, and try to make profits. But thanks to Congress, farming differs quite a bit from free-market capitalism. Let’s take a look for a second at the summary Brad Plumer has written of the farm bill, and contrast the way farming works to...

  • Another Obamacare author heads to K Street health practice

    By Timothy P. Carney | 06/11/13 01:25 PM

    David Bowen “was instrumental in shepherding President Obama’s landmark health care bill through the Senate as staff director for health of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions under Chairman Sen. Ted Kennedy,” says Hill & Knowlton, the PR shop that is...

  • Contracting and the surveillance lobby

    By Timothy P. Carney | 06/10/13 05:40 PM

    Here’s a good point from blogger Matt Yglesias: I think the more interesting issue is how it alters the lobbying dynamic. An established government bureaucracy has, of course, considerable capacity to lobby on behalf of its own interests. That’s particularly true when the bureacracy’s...

  • Obama Revolving Door: Ken Salazar to lobbying/law firm Wilmer Hale, Lieberman to Kasowitz

    By Timothy P. Carney | 06/10/13 03:35 PM

    Ken Salazar, President Obama’s Interior Secretary, has joined the law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, also known as WilmerHale. Salazar, according to reports, will split time between Colorado (which he represented in the U.S. Senate for four years), and D.C. Wilmer Hale...

  • Taxpayers funding Rep. Luis Gutierrez’s lobbyist confidant

    By Timothy P. Carney | 06/10/13 02:35 PM

    Doug Scofield was chief of staff to Rep. Luis Gutierrez, an Illinois Democrat, until 2002. In 2003, Scofield took two consulting jobs: (1) Taxpayer-funded political consultant for Gutierrez’s office; (2) State-level lobbyist for health care companies and all sorts of nonprofits. USA...

  • Tim Carney: Even law-abiding people should oppose surveillance

    By Timothy P. Carney | 06/09/13 05:25 PM

    "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know," Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in 2009, "maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." This line was creepy enough coming from one of President Obama's confidants and fundraisers. It takes on added weight now that the Washington...

  • Free-market populism: Lee & Amash propose bill to kill export-subsidy agency

    By Timothy P. Carney | 06/06/13 05:25 PM

    One federal agency that exists to subsidize U.S. exports dedicates a huge majority of its financing to subsidizing Boeing jets. It’s classic corporate welfare, in my view. Republicans say they believe in the free market, but most congressional Republicans voted to reauthorize the agency. On...



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