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Arlington, VA – On the heels of the House of Representatives’ vote to pass the Biden/Sanders multi-trillion government takeover, Americans for Prosperity is announcing it will launch the start of a seven-figure digital ad campaign connecting Americans to how their Representatives voted and the lasting damage this bill would cause to the economy and people’s […]
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced the first comprehensive, Republican-led legislation to end the federal prohibition on cannabis. The States Reform Act would do the following: Decriminalize cannabis at the federal level and restore the proper balance of power between states and the federal government in this area. Establish a limited federal […]
The United States boasts some of the best doctors in the world. U.S. companies produce dozens of new prescription drugs each year, innovative and lifesaving medical technologies, and groundbreaking therapies. They researched, created, and distributed hundreds of millions of COVID-19 shots for all who want them in less than a year. It’s no surprise, then, […]
by AFP When COVID-19 hit the United States, local officials closed most doctors’ and dentists’ offices to all but emergency visits. With tens of millions of Americans suddenly cut off from clinicians, policymakers rushed to relax regulations related to telehealth. These changes allowed quarantined Americans to get in touch with their providers virtually, via video […]
Off-year elections when Congress and the White House are not up for grabs can be sleepy. Turnout often declines significantly. That did not happen in 2021. In Virginia, where the governor’s mansion and the state House of Delegates were in play, voter turnout was higher than in any other gubernatorial election in the state since […]
Certificate-of-need laws have slashed hundreds of millions of dollars in potential health care investment in Iowa, cost providers tens of thousands of dollars, and significantly delayed critical expansions in the health care industry, a new report by Americans for Prosperity Foundation finds. The report, authored by Kevin Schmidt, director of investigations at Americans for Prosperity Foundation, […]
On Friday night, a Southwest Airlines flight took off from Houston to Albuquerque. It arrived on time. I was not on that plane, and odds are neither were you. However, you may still have heard about it because a journalist on the flight reported that she heard the pilot say “Let’s go, Brandon” over the […]
People want to know what the law is. It’s a fundamental part of any free society—we should know exactly what rules apply to us, and what rules apply to the government. That is why the idea of having a body of “secret law” is offensive to our constitutional system of government. But what if I […]
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who has famously suggested that 75 is about the right age to die, recently took to the pages of Politico to argue that if we allow the government to control the price of prescription drugs, “we will still have robust innovation.” But the primary example the 64-year-old Dr. Emanuel uses to make […]
