Sam Mar @SamJMar

Houston, TX Joined April 2009

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Sam Mar @SamJMar

5 months ago

Prediction markets have effectively legalized sports gambling in all 50 states AND lowered the age to 18. Even if you like the concept of prediction markets, you can probably agree that giving every 18-year old in the country a casino in their pocket is not a great idea.

Senator John Curtis @SenJohnCurtis

5 months ago

If it looks and talks like gambling, it is gambling. Regulation of sports betting and casino-style prediction markets belongs to the states—not the federal government. Joined @SquawkCNBC to discuss our bill to keep these products out of spaces where they don’t belong.

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Vast @vast

8 months ago

Vast hosted Congressman @Rep_Whitesides at our Long Beach headquarters. He toured our factory, Mission Control, and met with Founder Jed McCaleb, CEO @maxhaot, and engineers to discuss the future of commercial space stations and American's continuous presence in space.

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Mike Lee @SenMikeLee

8 months ago

America can’t afford to lose the global race for energy. A permitting process that drags projects out for years guarantees we will.

Semafor @semafor

8 months ago

"Although Republicans and Democrats will sometimes approach this in a different way," @SenMikeLee tells @burgessev on permitting reform, "The need is so pressing and undisputed ... it's not quite as stark a contrast between what Republicans want and what Democrats want right

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John Arnold @johnarnold

8 months ago

Shared the stage with Senators Lee (UT) & Heinrich (NM) and Govs Stitt (OK) & Shapiro (PA) tonight to discuss permitting reform. Likely no coincidence that each of us comes from energy-exporting states and see firsthand how hard it is to build infrastructure the country needs.

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Sam Mar @SamJMar

8 months ago

Thank you @RepJasonSmith for calling out the need for greater accountability of Organ Procurement Organizations

NEWSMAX @NEWSMAX

8 months ago

Heather Knuckles shares her mother's tragic story of receiving a liver with metastatic cancer, prompting calls for accountability in organ procurement practices. @SchmittNYC

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Sam Mar @SamJMar

8 months ago

Thank you @RepAaronBean for shining a light on the need for reform in the organ donation system. This is one issue that both sides of the aisle can and do agree on - saving lives and taxpayer dollars by holding low-performing OPOs accountable. These are nonprofit government contractors abusing public trust and wasting taxpayer dollars.

Aaron Bean @RepAaronBean

8 months ago

WATCH: In today’s @WaysandMeansGOP Oversight Subcommittee hearing, I exposed the rampant waste, fraud, and abuse in the organ procurement industry. I look forward to working with @HouseGOP to restore trust in the transplant system and prevent this outrageous and shockingly evil

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Eli Dourado @elidourado

9 months ago

There are $250B sitting in DAFs. What if donor-advisors could use funds for private loan guarantees for FOAK projects or facilities? Would it help the country reindustrialize? 🤔 At Astera, we're going to try it.

Kumar Garg @KumarAGarg

9 months ago

At @RenPhil21, we want to give donors more ways to bet on science and tech. Thanks to @elidourado and the @AsteraInstitute team, we will be standing up a new offering that will leverage DAFs to bring down the cost of capital of energy and infrastructure projects. More here:

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Santi Ruiz @rSanti97

9 months ago

Listening to Jennifer Erickson present on this right now — insanely talented communicator and policy entrepreneur. Highly recommend this episode purely as a study in selling a wonky policy idea.

Santi Ruiz @rSanti97

2 years ago

One quarter of all kidneys from organ donors get thrown in the trash. At Statecraft, we uncovered why a corrupt monopolist has managed organ procurement for 40 years, and how it’s getting fixed. statecraft.pub/p/how-to-stop-…

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Holly Harris @holly_harris

9 months ago

Thank you @SenMikeLee for leading the charge on this important legislation! Great to see the band back together again, this time with some new friends! @JessicaJackson lee.senate.gov/2025/11/lee-in…

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Governor Kelly Armstrong @GovArmstrong

10 months ago

North Dakota feeds and fuels the world, it would be great if it was easier (and cheaper) to get our products to market.

Joshua Siegel @SiegelScribe

10 months ago

Scooplet: a group of Dem and GOP governors led by @GovernorShapiro and @GovStitt are sending a letter to key House and Senate committee leaders laying out detailed priorities for Congress to act on permitting reform, including NÈPA, transmission, Clean Water Act changes

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John Arnold @johnarnold

10 months ago

Love seeing two of my favorite governors coming together on one of my favorite topics.

Joshua Siegel @SiegelScribe

10 months ago

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Prachee Avasthi @PracheeAC

11 months ago

Right now is the best chance the scientific community has ever had to end the artificial scarcity of academic journals. Check out my new op-ed urging @NIH @NIHDirector_Jay to disallow taxpayer dollars towards journal publication fees — something both publishers and scientists have played a role in perpetuating. The last day for public comment on this topic is Monday, Sept 15. It’s time to unleash science. Links in 🧵

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Governor Cox @GovCox

a year ago

Between 1970 and 1990, America built 95 gigawatts of nuclear capacity. But then momentum stalled: regulation tightened, costs soared, and we gradually lost the will and ability to build. Today, China is racing ahead. With 30 reactors under construction and hundreds of gigawatts in the pipeline, they’re on track to quickly surpass U.S. nuclear capacity. It’s time for a nuclear renaissance — for energy abundance, for national security, and for American prosperity. It’s time to build again.

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Sam Mar @SamJMar

a year ago

you can't argue that biologics are more complex and need more exclusivity than pills and in the same breath whine that there is a pill penalty. It should be obvious that the real play here is to just defer Medicare negotiation for all drugs as long as possible.

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Sam Mar @SamJMar

a year ago

The EPIC Act is a pharma handout. If you want to eliminate the "pill penalty", shorten the biologic exclusivity period to 9 yrs to achieve parity with pills. This would be good for patients (make more drugs affordable sooner) and taxpayers (reduce the deficit or pay for tax cuts). You don't get lower drug prices by lengthening exclusivity. That's called a taxpayer-funded giveaway to line pharma's pockets at the expense of patients.

John Arnold @johnarnold

a year ago

A post on drug patents, exclusivity periods, and Medicare negotiation, and how pharma is trying to use the complexity to pull a fast one to grab $10 billion. A pharma company gets 20 years of patent protection on a drug, starting from date of filing. However, due to lengthy

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Sam Mar @SamJMar

a year ago

@JosephMajkut Just a few more PDFs and we will have a $100/ton carbon tax

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Elizabeth Whitehouse @ElizWhitehouse

2 years ago

Guthrie will make big impact for Kentucky as House Energy and Commerce Chair. A great reminder from @holly_harris and a sweet story about her Mom, @RoseWilsonHarri in this Op-Ed about Kentucky’s own @brettguthrie. thenewsenterprise.com/opinion/column…

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John Arnold @johnarnold

2 years ago

Some Republicans are asking whether to wait until 2025 with a trifecta to do energy permitting reform. But not only is a materially different bill not possible in the 119th Congress due to the political process and landscape, it's dangerous to delay it. - Hyperscalers are looking to site their largest, most important data centers overseas because they can't get the power and gas they need in the US - Consumers are seeing rising retail prices because it's too hard and takes too long to build energy infrastructure - RTOs and ISOs are all facing difficulty keeping reliability of the system given the growth in demand - Energy companies of all types are cancelling projects because of difficulty of permits The next Congress has many issues of higher priority to deal with. Even if/when it gets to it, the bill cannot go through reconciliation. It will need at least 7 Dem votes in the Senate. There is no chance a bill as imagined by certain conservative groups would get that. The issue would be stuck and the industry, and consumers, would be waiting years.

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Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac

2 years ago

I have an op-ed in the @nytimes today about how to reduce crime. The key idea, based on decades of strong research evidence: focus on increasing the probability of getting caught, not the punishment. nytimes.com/2024/12/07/opi…

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Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

2 years ago

This is the way forward for the Democratic Party: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Jared Golden, and the rest of the Blue Dogs sent a letter calling for Congress to pass the bipartisan permitting reform bill.