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April 24, 2013 JHealth Care & Entitlements
Today, AFP’s Vice President of State Operations, Teresa Oelke, testified on behalf of AFP’s 17,000 activists in Louisiana, urging the Louisiana House of Representatives Committee on Health and Welfare to not expand Medicaid in Louisiana. Medicaid is a broken, costly entitlement program in need of reform, not expansion. Adding 450,000 Louisiana residents to this system [...]
February 21, 2013
AFP ranks members of Congress on their votes on free market issues ARLINGTON, VA—Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the premier free market grassroots organization committed to smaller government and economic freedom, today released its scorecard for the 112th Congress. AFP also launched an interactive online version of its congressional key vote scorecard, which includes AFP key [...]
February 05, 2013
New web video points out hypocrisy of Organizing for Action Arlington, VA – Today Americans for Prosperity, a nationwide organization of citizen leaders with over 2 million activists and 34 state chapters, released a new video poking fun at the president for his new non-profit, tax exempt group. “Sadly most of us have gotten used [...]
January 16, 2013
A Statement from AFP President Tim Phillips “President Obama has demanded a clean, hassle-free vote on raising, yet again, the debt ceiling; he should not and will not get it. The debt ceiling fight is another much needed opportunity to refocus on what got us into this mess: years of runaway government spending. AFP urges [...]
January 10, 2013
Many Americans breathed a sigh of relief when Congress passed a bill to extend many of the tax cuts and delay sequestration in order to avoid the fiscal cliff. However, would Americans be quite so satisfied if they realized the wasteful government spending that was included in so-called emergency legislation? Below is a compilation of [...]