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R Street Testimony in Support of VA SB 670, authorizing autonomous vehicles in Virginia

Robert Melvin, Northeast Region Director, R Street Institute In SUPPORT of Senate Bill 670, “Fully autonomous vehicles; commercial use, civil penalty.” March 3, 2026 House Transportation Committee, ...
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R Street Testimony in Support of MD HB 360, Clean Slate Act of 2026

Chairwoman Bartlett and members of the committee, My name is Sarah Anderson, and I am the associate director of criminal justice and civil liberties policy for the R Street Institute (RSI), which is a ...
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R Street Testimony in Support of MD SB 562, pharmacist prescribing of OUDs

Stacey McKenna, Resident Senior Fellow, Healthier Communities, R Street Institute In SUPPORT of Senate Bill 562, “State Board of Pharmacy – Prescriber-Pharmacist Agreements – Treatment of Opioid Use ...
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Anthropic, the Pentagon, and the AI Innovation Ecosystem

The Pentagon’s dispute with Anthropic recently ended with President Donald J. Trump directing every federal agency to cease ...
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America’s First Ladies: 250 Years of Influence

Featuring [Moderator] Sabrina Schaeffer, Vice President, Public Affairs, R Street Institute Anita McBride, ...
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R Street Testimony in Support of VA HB 711, Solar Energy Preemption

Robert Melvin, Northeast Region Director, R Street Institute In SUPPORT of House Bill 711: “Local regulation of solar facilities, special exceptions.” March 2, 2026 Senate Local Government Committee ...
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R Street Institute’s Matt Germer Joins C-SPAN, Washington Journal, to Discuss the SAVE America Act

Watch as R Street Institute’s Matt Germer joins C-SPAN, Washington Journal, in an extensive discussion regarding the SAVE America Act.
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Costs Come First in a Reset Climate Agenda

This study was originally published by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). Read the comprehensive study here. Key Takeaways IntroductionPublic policy involves tradeoffs. The primary tradeoff ...
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Low-Energy Fridays: President Trump isn’t the only barrier to new wind power projects

President Donald J. Trump has long made his views on wind power clear: He’s not a fan. With a record of linking wind power to everything from electricity blackouts to cancer, he has a particular ...
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State of the Union: Public Safety, Said and Unsaid

President Trump’s 2026 State of the Union address touched on public safety in several places, presenting what he ...
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Awkward? What to expect from Trump-Supreme Court beef at State of the Union

Jeremy Dalrymple, an associate director of the center-right R Street Institute, said this kind of tension between a president and the court isn’t abnormal. “It’s inherent to the system that we have.
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Policy to Mitigate Energy Cost Impact

On Feb. 25, 2026, R Street Institute’s Devin Hartman presented at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine workshop on Understanding and Addressing Energy Affordability in the ...