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On Tuesday, March 26, 2019 President Trump threw a virtual grenade into the Washington debating room when he tweeted, “The Republican Party will become ‘The Party of Healthcare.’” This announcement came the day after the Justice Department wrote a March 25 letter to the U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans that it would side […]
It has been 20 years since the Texas legislature moved to end regulated energy rates and break up monopolies. Texas now has twice the energy production of any other state, and electric prices are among the nation’s lowest. Unfortunately, House Committee on State Affairs Chairman Dade Phelan (R-Beaumont) is attempting to set the clock back […]
The Senate is considering another poorly designed disaster aid package. With a price tag of $13.5 billion, the Senate intends to use the bill’s disaster and emergency spending designation as a way to circumvent the spending caps put in place by the Budget Control Act of 2011. The bill will boost funding for programs that […]
It is no secret that the Green New Deal is a terrible deal for taxpayers, as even Senate Democrats, despite their public support, refused to match their votes with their words. On March 26, 2019, the Senate voted down the motion to proceed on S. J. Res. 8, better known as the Green New Deal […]
Many rural communities and those living in remote areas often have difficulty accessing the internet or using broadband to the extent that their urban counterparts can achieve. There has been a great deal of discussion about bridging the digital divide between urban and rural communities. In seeking solutions to this disparity, technology companies have been […]
On March 22, 2019, the Trump Administration took another step to act on the president’s campaign promise to financially support coal and nuclear power.
Are environmental radicals and trial lawyers shifting their litigious energy from bisphenol A (BPA) hysteria, now that the CLARITY BPA consortium project has pretty much confirmed that the compound is safe to use, and moving to a new and potentially lucrative bogeyman? Apparently, the new chemicals in the crosshairs are polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Since September […]
In college, during a discussion of surveys in one of my political science classes, I learned that survey writers often skew questions to achieve the desired results. A prime example of how this occurs can be found in a survey that was frequently cited on March 6, 2019, when Democrats in Congress announced the introduction […]
The Green New Deal and its associated hyperbole have commanded most of the recent attention that is paid to energy policy. Yet the Green New Deal has no chance to pass until 2021 at the earliest; even its Senate sponsor, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, says he won’t vote for it when Majority Leader Mitch McConnell […]
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) presents its 2019 Pork-Barrel Madness bracket in honor of the NCAA tournament. The bracket features 32 of the worst pork-barrel earmarks of all time. Taxpayers will be able to vote on CAGW’s Twitter account @GovWaste. Voting on the first-round matchups begins on March 11 and the torunament will end on April 1.
