Effective Budgeting #8: Concluding the Annual Budget Cycle on Time
Oct 13, 2026

Healthy budgeting gives legislators many reasons to finish on time. “On time” means before Congress leaves for the August recess. The White House and agencies could prepare better for the new fiscal year. Appropriators could rescind and reappropriate surplus funds well before expiration, further clarifying spending expectations for the White House.

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What Does America Actually Need from the Middle East?
Sep 24, 2026

Washington should use this moment to build a posture around its core interests, before the rubble is cleared and old strategic habits are poured back into concrete.

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No, The Feds Shouldn’t Give Every American $5,000
Sep 14, 2026

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.

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Capitol Leaders Powering Prosperity Summit Review: Regulatory Reform Is the Key to Unlocking America’s Energy Future
Sep 9, 2026

America’s energy future will depend on more than how much energy the country can produce. It will depend on whether policymakers can create a regulatory system that allows new energy projects, technologies, and businesses to actually get built.

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AFP Input on the Future of Congressional Modernization
Sep 3, 2026

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 […]

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Recasting Labor Regulation After Loper Bright
Aug 27, 2026

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. 

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Following Supreme Court Interpretation, Congress Should Amend Federal Sentencing Law
Aug 24, 2026

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.   

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The Next Frontier of Universal School Choice: Removing Barriers to Expand Educational Options
Aug 21, 2026

The school choice revolution is the greatest education policy change of our lifetime. The task ahead is not to retreat from it but to go one step further: eliminate the remaining obstacles so that every family, at every income level, can choose freely.

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Virginia’s New Regulatory Playbook: How Governor Spanberger’s Executive Order 17 Compares to Governor Youngkin’s Executive Order 19
Aug 20, 2026

At first glance the differences in regulatory approaches between the two governors appear to be more continuity than change; however, the changes that do exist reveal an important shift in governing philosophy.

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