Technology Legislative Alerts
September 24, 2011 JTechnology
By Phil Kerpen
Published September 23, 2011 | FoxNews.com
Today, the Obama administration officially published the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) so-called net neutrality rules in the Federal Register. These rules would undo a decade of free-market, hands-off Internet policy that has made the Internet the greatest engine of economic growth, creativity, and innovation the world has ever seen. They would set us down a path to reducing the Internet into a government-regulated, government-controlled public utility. The effective date is November 20, 2011. The House has already voted to overturn the rules. The Senate now has two months to do the same – and they must.
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September 02, 2011 JTechnology
By Phil Kerpen
President Obama is hyping a new push for a warmed over stimulus, now code-named “targeted infrastructure investments” as his administration continues on an astonishing anti-business rampage that is undermining job creation in this country. The latest proof comes from the Department of Justice, which is suing to block the tie-up between AT&T and T-Mobile.
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August 03, 2011 JTechnology
Dear Senator Johnson,
On behalf of more than 1.8 million Americans for Prosperity activists in all 50 states, I write in support of your proposal to reinvigorate the American economy. Last week, you and 20 of your colleagues introduced S. 1438, the Regulatory Moratorium and Jobs Preservation Act. Your bill would halt damaging regulatory actions until unemployment falls below 7.7 percent.
July 25, 2011 JTechnology
Dear Representative Lamborn,
On behalf of more than 1.7 million Americans for Prosperity activists in all 50 states, I commend your recent introduction of H.R. 2011, the National Strategic and Critical Minerals Policy Act. Your bill would shine much-needed light on the regulatory burdens and permitting delays standing in the way of an efficient and competitive domestic minerals industry.
July 14, 2011 JTechnology
Dear Representatives Herger and Crowley,
On behalf of more than 1.7 million Americans for Prosperity activists in all 50 states, I write to commend you for your recent introduction of H.R. 2307, the Ethanol Subsidy Repeal Act. Your bill would finally bring an end the federal government’s tax subsidies for the use of corn-based ethanol as a source of fuel, a drawn-out and ultimately wasteful exercise in centralized economic planning that has been going on since the 1970s.