Author: AFP
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Valvo on Daily Caller: Earmarked for Success
04.15.10 05:47 AMHouse Republicans have a chance to show theyre listening to the American people. The House Republican Conference recently announced they would not request earmarks in the looming feeding frenzy that is appropriations season. The special projects are a perennial public relations disaster for both parties, as transparency advocates uncover lawmaker-directed taxpayer funds for catfish genome research, tea pot museums and the infamous Bridge to Nowhere.
There are myriad excuses proffered by those who enjoy shuttling cash between Washington and a much-needed sewer project or popular bike trail expansion. However, the American people are tired of excuses and they simply want the profligate spending to stop. The party that embracesand I mean really embracesa rejection of politics as usual is poised to earn voters trust and make significant electoral gains. Lets take a few of these earmarking excuses to task.
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Gandhi Was Right?
04.15.10 06:36 AMThis morning I write to you from Sacramento, CA where last night hundreds of fired-up grassroots activists joined us for an Americans for Prosperity Foundation Defending the American Dream Summit®. CLICK here for pictures.
Today, hundreds of thousands of Americans will stand up for freedom by participating in hundreds of tea parties across our great nation. Hopefully, you’re heading out to an event near you!
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Kerpen on FOX Forum: Tea Parties’ Tax Day Message
04.15.10 09:55 AMPoliticians, you’ve been warned — November is coming.
By Phil Kerpen – FOXNews.com
April 15 is not usually a happy day. Its the day our federal and state tax bills come due and a reminder of how much we already pay in taxes, even before the bill for Congresss reckless spending spree comes due. But last year something changed. The Tea Parties made April 15, for me, one of the happiest days of the year. Why? Because it was the day Americans said they had had enough of big government and were ready to fight back.
Read the rest at FOX Forum.
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Unhappy Tax Day from AFP
04.14.10 12:40 PMAFP President Tim Phillips gave this statement for Tax Day:
A lot of people are asking me this Tax Day: What does the tea party movement want? We face a multitude of crippling tax increases in this year alone, and activists all across the country just want the freedom to prosper.
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Americans for Prosperity to Launch 2nd Swing of Regulation Reality Tour Across Colo
04.12.10 09:53 AMWhile the Environmental Protection Agency tries to force an intrusive global warming regulatory scheme on the American people without so much as a vote of Congress, Americans for Prosperity, the free-market grassroots group that brought you the Hot Air Tour, is launching the 2nd swing of its Regulation Reality Tour in Colorado, April 19-21.
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Kerpen on FOX Forum: Obama’s Secret Power Grabs
04.12.10 11:37 AMPresident Obama seems to believe that most of his sweeping agenda to transform the country can be accomplished without even a vote of Congress.
Updated April 12, 2010
By Phil Kerpen – FOXNews.comWhile Congress considers sweeping new legislation to permanently institutionalize the bailouts and federal control of our financial system (right on the heels of their health care takeover, of course) several other sweeping power grabs are going on outside the spotlight of legislative debate. Indeed President Obama seems to believe that most of his sweeping agenda to transform the country can be accomplished without even a vote of Congress. The chart found here shows what the administration is up to.
- Read the rest at FOX Forum.See the chart at www.ObamaChart.com.
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Poll Shows Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Internet Regulation
04.09.10 12:25 PMA new poll from Rasmussen Reports shows that Americans oppose FCC Internet regulation by nearly a 2-to-1 margin (53 percent oppose while only 28 percent support). This explodes the claim from left-wing groups that claim to speak for consumers or a broad grassroots movement. The vast majority of Americans who care about this issue are opposed to regulation. The courts have now ruled against regulation. The FCC should listen to the law and the American people and end its regulatory assault on the Internet.
File a comment asking the FCC not to regulate the Internet by clicking here.
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Will FCC escalate its attack on the Internet?
04.08.10 02:40 AMBy Phil Kerpen
Published: 04/08/10 at 12:00 AMAmericas communications industry comprises, like health care, roughly one-sixth of our economy. Unlike health care, however, which required majorities in Congress for sweeping new regulations, the Federal Communications Commission believes it can take over the communications system with just three votes of an unelected commission.
The FCCs power grab was dealt a stunning setback this week in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, who rejected the agencys asserted authority to regulate the Internet. However, this is an ideological fight, and the true-believers on the left will not let it rest simply because of a little thing like the law.
- Read the rest at Daily Caller.
- Listen to a related 2-minute KerpenCast here.Comment with the FCC here.
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Americans for Prosperity Foundation- California to Hold Defending American Dream Summ
Hundreds of citizen activists will hear from Hugh Hewitt, Steve PoiznerThe California chapter of Americans for Prosperity Foundation will hold a special Defending the American Dream Summit next Wednesday, April 14 at the Sacramento Sheraton at 7pm. Speakers will include Hugh Hewitt, Steve Poizner, Carly Fiorina, Chuck DeVore, Ann McElhinney, Jon Coupal, Peter Foy, Tim Phillips and a host of other political and media leaders.
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The FCC plots their next move
04.07.10 09:29 AMYesterday the FCC was dealt a big blow in their efforts to regulate the Internet. A federal appeals court ruled they do not have the power to regulate web traffic under current law. However, The New York Times reports the FCC will try to circumvent the ruling by the courts and classify the Internet as a public utility. In the short term:
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US Court Ruling Against FCC Raises Stakes for Broadband Reclassification Threat
04.06.10 07:35 AMIn response to todays US court ruling against FCC on net neutrality, Americans for Prosperity Vice President Phil Kerpen released the following statement:
Todays decision dealt a blow to advocates for imposing a heavy Washington regulatory hand on the Internet. The FCC has no legal basis for imposing its dystopian regulatory vision under the net neutrality banner.
Unfortunately, the Obama administration and its FCC cohorts have been relentless in pursuing their agenda without respect to the democratic process or proper legal processes. The FCC broadband plan makes clear where they want to go to circumvent this court decision: reclassification of the Internet into an old-fashioned regulated utility.
Such an escalation in the Lefts ongoing efforts to control our communications system must be stopped.
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Obama’s new tax on…Rainwater!?
04.06.10 11:42 AMWould President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency really force Americans to pay a tax on "rainwater runoff" from homes and small businesses?
You bet they would. In fact, the EPA, under radical environmentalist Lisa Jackson, is proposing regulations to do just that.
Take a look at the EPA’s own Federal Register filing, where the EPA generally describes the initiative it’s proposing:
</p></blockquote>…requirements, including design or performance standards, for stormwater discharges from, at minimum, newly developed and redeveloped sites. EPA intends to propose regulatory options that would revise the NPDES regulations and establish a comprehensive program to address stormwater discharges from newly developed and redeveloped sites and to take final action no later than November 2012. (Source)
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And So it Begins EPA Regulates GHGs Under the Clean Air Act
04.01.10 10:11 AMIn a move to reshape the regulatory framework of the auto and energy sector, today the EPA issued a joint rulemaking with the Department of Transportations National Highway Traffic Safety Administration regulating the emission of six greenhouse gases from light duty vehicles under the Clean Air Act.
We can only hope this is Obamas version of an April Fools joke…
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Kerpen on drilling: ‘Obama is talking about lifting a nonexistent ban’
03.31.10 05:55 AMPresident Obama announces today that he will "allow" oil drilling off the coast of Virginia. AFP Vice President for Policy Phil Kerpen issued the following statement: