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By any objective measure, the rollout of broadband services to the country is going phenomenally well, and is largely being done with private capital and without involving taxpayer dollars.

Our thanks for FedEx Chairman Fred Smith for dredging up a 2001 IPI study and resurrecting its recommendations in a Wall Street Journal op/ed this past Saturday.

In the federal government, regulators are not directly accountable to the electorate.

President Obama introduced his budget this week amid lots of calls for Republicans to support the president’s laundry list of new and expanded spending programs, along with a minimal spending freeze and some tax cuts.

While in Washington ideologues argue over whether there is adequate competition in the communications industry and dream up fanciful schemes to redesign the communications industry and dangerous plans to regulate the Internet, the states are moving ahead with modernizing their communications regulations to reflect the competitive reality that we see around us every day.

Would the REAL Obama agenda please stand up! On Monday morning the White House released a plan for: · Doubling the Child and Dependant Care Tax Credit for families making under $85,000; · Limiting student federal loan payments; · Expanding tax credits to match retirement savings; and · Expanding assistance to families caring for elderly relatives.

With insurmountable majorities in both Houses of Congress, Congressional Democrats had the votes to jam through any piece of legislation they liked.

Something remarkable is going on in America.

[The following is an excerpt from IPI’s comments filed today with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to regulate the practices of Internet service providers (ISPs)] The intent of Congress to increase competition and innovation in communications through the Telecom Act of 1996 is finally being realized.

Presidential elections are expensive—something liberals never tire of reminding us every four years when they push for some way to nationalize the cost of presidential elections.