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A secure border makes immigration better for everyone. AFP’s ‘Pillar 1: Secure Border and Ports’ provided a framework for securing the border that Congress has begun to adapt.
The full report details how states select judges and analyzes the best method for doing so.
AFP is focused on enacting foundational housing reforms in all 50 states. Overly burdensome regulations related to housing, land use, and zoning make housing more costly and erect barriers to economic growth that inhibit opportunity and geographic mobility.
Americans across the country are facing a housing crisis. A lack of housing supply has contributed to ever-rising home prices and priced countless families out of cities and neighborhoods nationwide. Excessive government regulation and power has made home building costlier, pushing up prices for builders and prospective homeowners.
AFP does not support federal preemption of state laws to enact reforms at the federal level. However, there are federal regulations that reduce housing supply and make housing more expensive. AFP supports eliminating or reforming federal laws that limit housing supply and make it difficult for homeowners and developers to build and renovate their property as they see fit.
To truly unleash energy abundance, the federal permitting process needs to be reformed. Policymakers should work to embody these simple changes to the permitting process to achieve lower energy costs, create jobs, and restore congressional oversight.
Congress’ annual policy work depends on timely information from the president’s budget request and national security strategy, and both are due in early February each year. Congress could refrain from inviting the president to give the State of the Union address until it receives those materials.
H. 3021 is a critical step toward restoring balance and accountability in the regulatory process. By incorporating REINS, judicial deference reform, sunset provisions, regulatory budgeting, and red tape reduction, the sate can ensure that regulations serve the public interest – not bureaucratic inertia. These reforms will empower small businesses, protect individual rights, and promote a more transparent and responsive government.
