On behalf of our activist community, I urge you to contact your senators and urge them to vote NO on the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, H.R. 7888, including procedural votes related to the bill. The Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act would reauthorize Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (also known as “Section 702”) without any significant reforms.  The Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act is seriously flawed and deeply problematic. The legislation is modeled on the so-called “reform” bill produced by the House Permanent Select ..read more

On behalf of our activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and ask him or her to vote YES on the Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale Act, H.R. 4639. While we had hoped there would be a comprehensive reform before Section 702 in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act expired, that hope was eclipsed by Speaker Johnson’s efforts to bring forward the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act without any substantive reforms.  The Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale Act provides at least a small step forward toward data privacy by requiring judicial oversight for any data ..read more

On behalf of our activist community, I urge you to contact your representative on amendments related to the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, H.R. 7888. The Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act is the base text of the reauthorization of Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (also known as “Section 702”).  The Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act is seriously flawed and deeply problematic. The legislation is modeled on the so-called “reform” bill produced by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The critical reforms incl ..read more

If there are two things the bureaucracy does well, they are overreaching and just plain not getting the job done. Such is the case with the Federal Food and Drug Administration.  Tomorrow, 11 April 2024, at 1 PM in 2154 Rayburn, the FDA will appear before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. Hopefully, appropriate pressure will be applied to bring about a few changes in the bureaucracy. It is well documented that smoking combustible tobacco products is pretty bad for your health and will increase your likelihood of early death. Smoking is the number one cause of preventable d ..read more

In 2024, the question of Intellectual Property rages on. That is because many Americans view physical property—like a home, car, or an antique—as something to be treasured, while Intellectual Property is frequently seen as an impediment to personal freedom. But Intellectual Property is the very embodiment of personal freedom. After all, what is more personal than the creations of our mind? And what better represents freedom than the ability to profit—yes, profit—from our creations? Those profits often enable us to improve our lives, as well as both directly and indirectly improve the lives of ..read more

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On behalf of our activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and ask him or her to vote NO on HB 2446. We oppose HB 2446 because it limits the scope of practice for multiple health providers and will unnecessarily keep them from practicing at the top of their license and training. As we have learned in the years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, our healthcare sector is already stretched thin. HB 2446 would only further limit practitioners’ abilities to treat and care for patients. Access to good nutrition while in a care setting is imperative to a patient’s ability t ..read more

It’s no secret most ordinary people in America feel like they’re being squeezed by higher prices at almost every turn. Rents, groceries, utilities, household goods – normal, everyday expenses we simply cannot live without – are eating more of our paycheck than maybe ever before. As much as that may sound like hyperbole, it’s not for Americans supporting families. Most of us in that age range cannot remember paying this much for food. Indeed, more than drugs, violence, climate change, or education, inflation ranks at the very top of problems the public says it is facing according to Pew. Given ..read more

Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage (also known as Medicare Part C) differ in a few important ways, but both could learn a thing or two from the lowly Cavendish banana and its cousin the Gros “Big Mike” Michel banana. Created as part of the Medicare Modernization and Prescription Drug Act of 2002, Medicare Advantage was a way to inject choice through private market forces into Medicare, which, to that point, had operated as an outright government-run, single-payer program. Indeed, Medicare Advantage and health savings accounts were the only good things to come from the Medicare Moderni ..read more

Railroads were America’s first large-scale heavy industry. As happened with most industries, the government started by being helpful in the formation of railroads before quickly becoming antagonistic, and finally settling into a routine of intrusive regulations, occasional subsidies, and periodic political grandstanding. Marc Scribner of Reason described the latter when he said of the Railway Safety Act of 2023 (S. 576): “Unfortunately, the Senate’s bill is nothing more than a hastily assembled package of irrelevant policy proposals that will do little to advance safety, let alone effectively ..read more