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Without Oversight, RUS Broadband Grant Program Could Follow Path of Stimulus
The recently released Farm Bill contained many of the same wasteful spending items found in past Farm Bills, but also held a few surprises that if not contained with transparency and appropriate oversight could lead to further wasteful spending. Among the new programs found in this year’s Farm Bill is a provision in Title VI, […]
Major legislation aims to slash Pentagon bureaucracy and waste
On April 17, 2018, Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX), chairman of the powerful House Committee on Armed Services, revealed a far-reaching proposal targeting the Defense Department’s so-called “Fourth Estate” agencies, which are maintained by around 200,000 civilian personnel and 600,000 contractors. The Fourth Estate is a nickname for defense agencies that provide administrative, purchasing, and oversight […]
The Fourth Circuit Was Right to Reject Price Controls for Generic Drugs
This prudent decision will send a strong message to other state legislatures across the country not to pursue similar legislation.
Obamacare is Bringing BIG Changes
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, is bringing many changes in the healthcare space and few are as subtly transformative as the rapid increase in cross-industry consolidation. A record breaking 115 mergers and acquisitions among hospitals and health systems occurred in 2017, an increase of 13 percent from 2016. These mega-deals can […]
Music Copyright Modernization Moves Forward
Technological advances over the past several decades have dramatically changed the way everyone listens to music, but compensation for performers, producers, and songwriters remains in the dark ages. They do not receive just compensation for the intellectual property created by their hard work and ingenuity. For the past couple of years, House Judiciary Committee has […]
Rescission and the Trump Administration
Rescission is an abstruse presidential tool passed amid the Nixon administration under the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974. Using rescission, a president can select any appropriated federal program for reduction or elimination by telling Congress what he or she intends to cut. The Congress then has 45 days to accept the decision […]
Online Sales Tax Debate to See Day in Court
During the first week of April, 2018, a number of organizations filed amicus briefs with the Supreme Court with respect to the case of South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., Overstock.com, Inc., and NewEgg, Inc. The petitioner in the case seeks to overturn the physical nexus requirement specified by the Supreme Court in 1992, when it […]
Americans Continue to Pay More for Sugar
As people eat their leftover Easter candy from last weekend, they may want to think about how much they paid for all those treats. Raw sugar in the United States regularly costs twice or triple the world average, and this hurts food companies and leads to high prices at the grocery store. U.S. laws artificially […]
CBO Projects Strong Economic Growth in 2018 and 2019
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