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Sens. Dick Durbin and Mike Enzi are "pro-taxers" who are "trying to avoid a debate on the merits" of an e-commerce sales tax bill by adding it as an amendment to the Small Business Jobs and Tax Relief Act, the Institute for Policy Innovation said Wednesday to Communications Daily.

The most underreported recent environmental story has been the dramatic decline in energy-related carbon emissions — nearly back to mid-1990s levels, and falling.

What dissenting governors—as well as many others—want is more flexibility to address the problems of the uninsured in creative ways.

Matthews writes in the Wall Street Journal that ObamaCare's alleged benefits are overrated, and by 2014 the bureaucratic mess may be impossible to untangle.

The day may come when we can transition to clean energy, but not for decades. Until there is a real “replace” vision, environmentalists should quit trying to “repeal” fossil fuels.

In reaction to Gov. Rick Perry's declaration Monday that Texas should decline to expand Medicaid and leave creation of a health insurance exchange to the federal government, Dr. Merrill Matthews is quoted by Dallas Morning News reporter Robert Garrett that if enough states push back, maybe they can get the flexibility to try and actually fix the broken Medicaid system. 

Today President Obama said he wants to extend what are known as the Bush tax cuts, which expire at year's end, but only to those whom the president deems worthy.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s refusal to expand Medicaid in the Lone Star State could be an opportunity to set a new paradigm in Medicaid.

Floridians are earning less and taking more low-wage jobs than they were a year ago, with pay rates dropping more than almost anywhere in the country. IPI's Merrill Matthews tells Tampa Bay Tribune reporter Brittany Davis that several factors may contribute.

The U.S. Supreme Court may have upheld most of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but that won’t fix the law’s many flaws.  Here are seven problems that riddle ObamaCare.