Has the GOP kicked its big spending habits?

By Conn Carroll

Published March 10, 2012 5:00am ET

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Has the GOP kicked its big spending habits? — There is no better symbol for the big-government excess of the Bush-era Republican Party than the 2005 highway transportation bill. Clocking in at 1,752 pages, the $286.4 billion piece of legislation wasn’t even made public until just hours before it was brought to a vote. Despite being the then-most expensive domestic infrastructure plan in U.S. […]

There is no better symbol for the big-government excess of the Bush-era Republican Party than the 2005 highway transportation bill. Clocking in at 1,752 pages, the $286.4 billion piece of legislation wasn’t even made public until just hours before it was brought to a vote.

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