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This Guide to Communications Policy explains in plain language the issues and opportunities that policy makers face in considering the future of the U.S. communications industry. It supplies legislators otherwise at the mercy of regulatory jargon with the tools to make intelligent, principled decisions. The Guide reflects a nonpartisan but distinctly free-market approach that, if followed, will lead to investment, job creation, and new products and services for consumers.

The problems of insurance industry regulation merit the review currently underway at the Treasury Department. The review should concentrate on identifying the most critical problems these industries face as a consequence of government action (or inaction), and target a few discrete initiatives, such as regulatory competition, that should set the political process on a straight road to reducing those problems.

On October 30, 2007, the Institute for Policy Innovation and the Free State Foundation sponsored a major policy conference entitled “The Federal Unbundling Commission?” on Capitol Hill. The following is a slightly edited version of the Keynote Address delivered by Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) to open the conference.