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Romney’s bold pick of House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan as Vice President makes it clear the 2012 election is about the country's financial future, and with Ryan on the ticket, President Obama will be dragged kicking and screaming into the Medicare reform debate.

IPI's Bartlett Cleland opposed the FCC order granting Tennis Channel's program carriage complaint against Comcast, calling the 3-2 ruling a "further erosion by the FCC of the freedom to contract, and hence property rights protection."

In a normal election year, Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst would have coasted to a Republican senatorial nomination victory.  But this is not a normal election year, and Texans are sending Washington a warning.

President Obama is taking a new message to the African American and Hispanic populations: ObamaCare means these communities  “will finally know the security of affordable care.”  If only it were true.

In an attempt to grab more tax revenue, states are on a course to levy and collect sales tax—the same tax on the same transaction multiple times, and today’s hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation will examine the rule established by Supreme Court precedent prohibiting states from collecting sales taxes from digital retailers without a physical presence in their state.

The transition to biofuels needs to be led by science and economically viable alternatives.  Instead, it is being led by a political agenda that believes that pumping grass, rather than gas, is good for the planet — no matter how much it hurts people and their pocketbooks.

IPI's Merrill Matthews tells Washington Times reporter Ralph Hallow how Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal appeals to voters wanting to repeal ObamaCare, as well as those voters from tea party and evangelical groups.

The Marketplace Fairness Act is an attempt to do an end-run around the Supreme Court’s physical presence rulings and would place unfair compliance burdens on small businesses around the country, said IPI Policy Counsel Bartlett Cleland.

Texans who want to increase their opportunities could have that chance this summer when Russia officially joins the World Trade Organization. But unless Congress acts quickly, the United States, and especially Texas, will miss out.

The political war against “off-shoring” — which is what the critics usually mean when they use the term “outsourcing” — is raging this election year. But there is an important reason why many U.S. companies open stores, build factories and hire people overseas: That’s where the sales are.