The Congressional Review Act: What to Know Before the New Congress Begins
Download FreedomWorks Foundation’s latest issue brief, The Congressional Review Act: What to Know Before the New Congress Begins, by clicking HERE. The Constitution’s Legislative Vesting Clause stipulates, “All legislative…
The Scale of the Federal Budget Deficit Is Mindboggling
As the White House and congressional leadership begin bipartisan negotiations over another legislative response to COVID-19, fiscal conservatives both inside and outside of Congress are expressing concerns about the federal…
Beginning With Second Chances: Background on Drug Courts in the United States
Download FreedomWorks Foundation’s latest issue brief, Beginning With Second Chances: Background on Drug Courts in the United States, by clicking here. The harsh sentencing policies of the 1980s and…
Wage Subsidies: A Multi-Trillion Dollar Market Distortion That America Cannot Afford
Download FreedomWorks Foundation’s latest issue brief, Wage Subsidies: A Multi-Trillion Dollar Market Distortion That America Cannot Afford, by clicking HERE. As America enters the recovery stage from the COVID-19…
FreedomWorks Foundation Releases Updated Version of From High Seas to Highway Robbery
In July 2015, FreedomWorks Foundation published an issue brief, From High Seas to Highway Robbery: How Civil Asset Forfeiture Became One of the Worst Forms of Government Overreach, which documented…
Dumpster Fire of the Month: House Democrats’ Rules Allow for a Suspension of the Debt Limit
Tucked away in the rules that House Democrats rolled out at the beginning of the 116th Congress is a provision that temporarily suspends the debt limit if the House of…
Tell the FCC to Undo Obama’s Internet Takeover
The radical left wheeled out their favorite liberal comedian on HBO to drum up support for Obama’s Internet takeover. AND IT WORKED! In just a few days they drove over…
Obama Used the IRS as a Weapon Against Conservatives
Obama used the IRS as a weapon against conservatives. The IRS was corrupt as it was shady. Like when they hired corporate henchmen to do their audits for them (which…
Don’t Let Unelected Bureaucrats Subvert Democracy
On Obama’s last day, hundreds of “midnight regulations” were secretly filed by multiple regulatory agencies. One was the FDA’s Smokeless Tobacco Rule (21 CFR Part 1132). This proposed rule would…
John Oliver and Title II: A Bad Combination
The internet has been buzzing about late-night talk show comedian John Oliver’s resurgence of interest in the regulations on internet broadband providers, about which he had an extended monologue on…