The bipartisan America the Beautiful Act, which proposes an international visitor surcharge to fund the maintenance of national parks and public lands, is moving through Congress.
Thirteen years later, the damage is clear. States freed from federal oversight, many of them states of the old Confederacy, have adopted new restrictions on voting that dramatically dilute minority voting power.
The FCC should utilize its $9 billion 5G Fund to subsidize direct-to-device satellite service in areas where traditional cell tower construction is impractical.
The reality 40 years later is that Congress made the drug penalties permanent law, while drug treatment was left to be determined during annual budget fights.
Data centers are classed as part of the information technology sector, but the framework has not kept pace with their growing strategic importance and rapidly changing threat environment.