Policy Corner

Costs are high, lines are long, and paths to treatments and services are convoluted. What Americans need at this very moment is flexibility.

Americans for Prosperity submits these comments to the “WOTUS Notice: The Final Response to SCOTUS; Establishment of a Public Docket; Request for Recommendations” published March 24, 2025 in the Federal Register by the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers (“Corps”).

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed the Public School Access and Transparency Act (SB572) into law, marking a major victory for parents, students, and transparency advocates. The new law strengthens the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act by ensuring public access to the learning materials used in public schools.

The Biden Administration’s cancellation of the ANWR lease sale is a classic case of an out-of-control administrative state brute forcing its preferred policy outcome in open defiance of a bill passed by Congress and signed by the President.

The existing tax code is rife with provisions that encourage people to alter their behavior in socially harmful ways. Tax reform efforts differ from simple tax cutting by attempting to streamline the code and make it less economically destructive.

The federal tax system’s complex and convoluted structure results in it costing far more than the $5 trillion it annually extracts from taxpayers’ pocketbooks. Each year it effectively imposes hundreds of billions in additional surtaxes on the American people in the form of excess burdens, compliance costs, and administrative expenses.

Americans for Prosperity submits these comments to the Department of Energy’s Notice of Proposed Withdrawal of its Determination that Miscellaneous Gas Products are Covered Products under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, as amended, for which DOE is authorized to establish test procedures and energy conservation standards.

On April 8th, James Czerniawski testified in front of the Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance of the Committee on the Judiciary on a continued pattern of government surveillance of U.S. citizens

President Trump’s recent Executive Order rescinding the Biden Administration’s abuse of the Defense Production Act (DPA) is a welcome course correction—and a crucial reminder of why the DPA itself is in desperate need of reform.

A model bill to prevent the abuse of copyright claims by public records custodians and to ensure access to school learning materials.