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Lifting the Crude Oil Export Ban – Welcome and Long Overdue
With the discovery of new reserves and the technological advances to extract the oil, the U.S. has become a leading energy producer. The anti-free market oil ban that seemed a sensible response when enacted clearly outlived its usefulness, as ALEC underscored in its model Resolution in Support of Lifting Federal Restrictions on Crude Oil Exports and Resolution for Reform of Counterproductive Export Control Policies.
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Inez Feltscher to Breitbart: Washington Budget Deal Neglects Kids in Need
American Legislative Exchange Council Education and Workforce Director Inez Feltscher went on Breitbart News Daily with host Stephen K. Bannon…
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Whose Money is it, Anyway?
As a part of Congress’ recent scramble to pass a spending package, Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and others have spearheaded…
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Protecting Taxpayers from Unnecessary Proposed IRS Reporting Rules
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has proposed new regulations threatening taxpayers who support charities. On Wednesday, the American Legislative Exchange…
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New CDC Guidelines May Lead to Patient Suffering
This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) posted new draft guidelines for primary care physicians who…
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Jonathan Williams Talks Charitable Giving vs. Tax Scrooges with Heartland
Jonathan Williams, ALEC Vice President of the Center for State Fiscal Reform, got into the Christmas spirit of giving through a conversation about the…
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Big Government Can Now Choose Your Neighbors and Property Value
The Omnibus budget bill contains a laundry list of items being funded, which continue the failed big government policies of…
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DC Circuit Court Upholds MATS Rule
Dedicated readers of the American Legislator may remember brief coverage of the Supreme Court ruling Michigan v. Environmental…
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Congressman Chris Cox Talks Policy at ALEC Tax Academy
Former Congressman Chris Cox of California recently addressed attendees of the 2015 ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Academy. While participating…
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Harvard E-Cigarette Study is Misleading
The use of electronic cigarettes, or e-cigs, may kill you or so researchers want headlines to read. But those headlines,…
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Stopping Discriminatory Taxation of Internet Access
While the gridlock in Washington, D.C. continues to frustrate many Americans, federal policymakers have a golden opportunity to send hardworking…
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Climate Agreement Reached in Paris
After a few sleepless nights of negotiation toward the end of the two-week-long United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (…
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Regulations are the Fourth Branch of Government
Too often, American businesses are targeted by bureaucrats and regulators. Webs of red tape ensnare corporations and small mom-and-pop shops…
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Feltscher Gives Interview on Education Policy at ALEC Winter Meeting
At the 2015 ALEC States and Nation Policy Summity in Scottsdale, Arizona, ALEC Education and Workforce Director Inez Feltscher chatted…
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Open Source Software: An alternative for meaningful use
Despite financial incentives included in the Affordable Care Act, use of electronic health records (EHRs) by healthcare providers are far…
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NASA and Free Markets
Competition is the key to success, according to NASA’s former deputy administrator, Lori Garver. Competition drives innovation, advances industries…
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Is Your Data Safe from the New Form of Government-Sanctioned Data Collection?
Electronic data can be revealing and intimate. Individuals should be secure and free from unreasonable government searches of their electronic…
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Campus Protests Highlight Need to Protect Free Speech
Students at Yale and the University of Missouri have been exercising their First Amendment free speech right to protest—well—the right…
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Massachusetts Caps Boston Students’ Potential by Restricting Charter Growth
Looking in from the outside, one would think this would be a great time to be a charter school operator…
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An “Unconscionable Decision”: League of Women Voters et al., v. State of Washington
Late last Thursday, the Washington Supreme Court denied all motions to reconsider its decision in a case last month…