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Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today expressed their support for the PATH Act, H.R. 5, which restores the doctor-patient relationship by repealing the controversial IPAB and advancing medical liability reforms to actually lower the cost of health care. Watch here:

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This Thursday, the president will take his energy roadshow to Cushing, Oklahoma, to proclaim victory for "approving" the southern portion of the Keystone XL pipeline. Some reports even indicate that he intends to announce a plan - and, no doubt, to claim credit - for expediting its construction. This segment of the pipeline will connect the storage and transportation hub at Cushing to the refining center of Houston and Port Arthur, Texasâ€"a fraction of the original project. The president will try to characterize the project as...

This week, the House of Representatives will vote to repeal the so-called Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). Created by the Democrats' health care law, IPAB is a powerful board of 15 unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats whose sole job will be to save money by restricting access to health care for Medicare beneficiaries.

The desire to repeal IPAB is strong and bipartisan across the nation and in Congress. In addition to the over 230 cosponsors of the repeal legislation (H.R. 452), more than 390 groups...

The president this week continued to tout his so-called "all-of-the-above" energy strategy, but even as the White House has pushed an all out media blitz on gas prices over the past month, the American people still aren't buying it - nearly two thirds of Americans are unhappy with the president's performance. In the face of public frustration and continued high prices, the president appears to now be turning to short-term political gimmicks instead of lasting policy solutions.

In a speech yesterday the president denied that more...