Today, the House Energy & Commerce Committee holds a hearing entitled "Lowering Health Care Costs…
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House E&C Health Subcommittee Hearing on Healthcare Affordability Offers Opportunity to Advance Real Reform

Today, the House Energy & Commerce Committee holds a hearing entitled "Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the Prescription Drug Supply Chain" that offers another opportunity to advance substantive reform.

CFIF applauds the Committee, and members Brett Guthrie (R - Kentucky) and Morgan Griffith (R - Virginia), for their collective efforts on this issue of affordability.  In that effort, we also continue our own effort to emphasize the importance of avoiding destructive government price controls, which only serve to make lifesaving pharmaceuticals less available to Americans, not more available.  It's also critical to maintain focus on ongoing reform in the pharmaceutical benefit manager (PBM) arena, which actually can bring improvement, as we've consistently…[more]

February 11, 2026 • 09:54 AM

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IRS, Obama Administration Suffer Unanimous New Legal Defeat
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, February 13 2014
In a unanimous decision employing startling but justifiably harsh terms, the nation’s second-highest court handed the Obama Administration and its rogue Internal Revenue Service (IRS) an embarrassing new legal defeat this week:  “If we were to accept the IRS’s interpretation of Section 330, the IRS would be empowered for the first time to regulate hundreds of thousands of individuals in the multi-billion dollar tax-preparation industry.  Yet nothing in the statute’s text or the legislative record contemplates that vast expansion of the IRS’s authority… …
 
On ObamaCare, the President Gives Up
There are a number of ways to look at Monday’s announcement that the Treasury Department is going…
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Whereas Obama Once Compared Himself to Reagan, Today It’s Nixon
Back in 2008, Barack Obama brashly aspired to a Reagan-like “transformative” presidency: …
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CBO Report: ObamaCare Kills Jobs, Doesn’t Help the Uninsured
Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo famously said “You campaign in poetry; you govern in prose.”…
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New Worldwide Index Reveals Value of Intellectual Property to U.S. Prosperity
It’s no secret that America’s economy has continued to stagnate throughout Barack Obama’s…
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The State of the Union and the State of the Presidency
Back in 2008, one of the McCain campaign’s repeated attacks on Barack Obama was that he was more…
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How ObamaCare’s Insurance Bailouts Add Up to Crony Capitalism
Looking back on the first four months of ObamaCare – an error-prone rollout for Healthcare.gov…
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The Results Are In: Red States Dominate
Defenders of federalism — the practice of devolving as much power as practicable to state and local…
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Global Cooling? Great Lakes Experiencing Deepest Freeze in 25 Years
Want to stump a global warming alarmist?  Just ask him to describe how the Great Lakes were originally…
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Obama’s Unexceptionalism: U.S. Plummets from Economic Freedom Index Top 10 for First Time
Remember how Barack Obama, following his inauguration in 2009, infamously disparaged the concept of American…
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Will the Supreme Court Rein in Obama’s Lawlessness?
History will not be kind to Barack Obama. Once the luster of his personality has receded into the past…
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Notable Quote   
 
"House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, this week suggested that the panel he leads would hold a markup of a bill to crack down on sanctuary cities in the coming weeks, as major metropolitan areas continue to clash with the Trump administration over immigration enforcement.'Sanctuary' jurisdictions refer to states, cities, and municipalities that have declared that they will not cooperate…[more]
 
 
— Ben Whedon, Just the News
 
Liberty Poll   

On a lighter note for a change (unless you engage in fisticuffs over curling), do you generally prefer watching the sports of the Winter Olympics or those of the Summer Olympics?