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More freedom can make housing, health care, energy, education, and much more work far better and be more affordable for all of us than it does today. That’s the path to prosperity. Not a one-time check that will push us deeper into debt and only fuel the inflation we need to get under control.
What are big, creative, actionable, bipartisan/nonpartisan ideas to modernize Congress? That’s the question the Subcommittee on Modernization and Innovation of the Committee on House Administration put to congressional offices and external stakeholders, as Roll Call covered. Not for budget and appropriations, alas. But still, we submitted a few ideas and look forward to seeing other […]
In recent years, significant DOL regulatory policies have swung back and forth on a pendulum depending on the party controlling the White House. DOL may continue to see shifts from one administration to the next, but the end of Chevron deference may finally help lead to more stable policy as rules are modified or rescinded to hold up in courts.
Congress should amend 18 U.S.C. § 3582 to clarify that sentencing disparities created by the First Step Act may be considered by judges when assessing requests for compassionate release.
When the Supreme Court interprets a statute, its job is to say what the law is—not what it should be. If Congress disagrees with the result and wants the statute to mean something else, the Constitution provides it with the tool to do so: amend the statute. Yet this legislative response remains chronically underused.
Following the Chatrie decision, a Mississippi judge found warrant requests for cell tower dumps do not establish probable cause or particularity requirements, making them unconstitutional general warrants.
Americans for Prosperity recently published a report explaining why each summer Congress should legislatively respond to Supreme Court decisions interpreting federal statutes.
Congress should amend IEEPA to restrain emergency tariff powers after the Supreme Court’s decision in Learning Resources v. Trump.
Every term, the Supreme Court hands down decisions interpreting federal statutes and, every summer, Congress largely stays silent. A new report from Americans for Prosperity, Congress Has the Floor: Legislative Opportunities After Supreme Court Statutory Interpretations, argues that this silence is a missed opportunity. The report makes a simple point: when the Supreme Court interprets […]
