FreedomWorks Signs Coalition Letter Urging Congressional Action to Overturn FDA E-Cigarette Rules
Pro-free-market activist groups, including FreedomWorks, banned together in support of challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s regulations against the e-cigarette industry. These regulations require all e-cigarette and vapor products that…
Capitol Hill Update: November 28, 2016
Schedule: The House and Senate are in session this week. House: The House returns from the Thanksgiving recess Tuesday. House Democrats will hold elections for conference leadership Wednesday, November…
Strings Attached: The One-Sided Relationship Between the FDA and the Media
To the modern American, the word propaganda may conjure up images of World War II, Soviets, or even an Orwellian police state. It just does not sound like something that…
Cronyism in Government Created the EpiPen Price Hike
On Wednesday, the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee held a hearing (more of a grilling) as Mylan’s CEO, Heather Bresch, the daughter of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) took to…
The FDA’s New Overreaching Regulations on Vaping Products Harm Public Health and Destroy Innovative Small Businesses
On August 8, the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) new rules on vaping products go into effect. Federal law gives the FDA the power to regulate “tobacco products,” and…
USDA Spends $19.9M on One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish…Catfish?
The Senate recently passed legislation that would result in a minor victory against the regulatory state and for the legislative branch reclaiming its powers. The measure is now pending in…
Regs on Eggs: Are You Pulling My Leg?
There are few objects more simple and elegant than an egg, but you’d never know that from the Byzantine way the government regulates America’s favorite breakfast food. Politico…
The FDA Wants to Tell Us What Words Mean
The FDA is proposing a new regulation to define, and potentially ban, the use of the word “natural” in food packaging. Historically, there has been no official definition of…
Blame Government for High Drug Prices
Hillary Clinton is using a story about a hedge fund manager charging outrageously marked up prices for an AIDS drug as a springboard for her plans impose a new…
Court Strikes Down the FDA’s Speech Regulations
They say that knowledge is power, that knowing is half the battle; and the explosion of knowledge that has emerged in the information age has undoubtedly made the world and…