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Immediately after taking the gavel, Speaker Mike Johnson pledged to decentralize power in the House of Representatives. The committees are key to making that promise reality. Committees are venues for applying members’ knowledge, experience, and resources within a manageable space for deliberation. The American people need empowered committees to update federal programs for society’s changing […]
JACKSON, MS – Last month, Americans for Prosperity – Mississippi (AFP-MS) launched a weekly radio show airing every Tuesday on WYAB 103.9 FM from 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Each week offers a variety of discussion topics and guests offering their own perspectives on matters facing the state and local communities. From local elected leaders […]
Wichita, KS–The special interim committee on civil asset forfeiture marks an important inflection point in Kansas police reform. Earlier this year, Americans for Prosperity-KS (AFP-KS) released an updated report analyzing civil asset forfeiture in Kansas and found that current laws allow law enforcement to unconstitutionally confiscates people’s property with very little recourse. Now, Kansas lawmakers […]
Americans for Prosperity, the nation’s largest grassroots advocacy group, announced two changes to the leadership structure today within one of its most successful state chapters – Iowa. After more than nine years at the helm, former State Director Drew Klein is moving into a Regional Vice President role and his long-time deputy state director is […]
Americans for Prosperity Foundation recently filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Consumers’ Research v. Federal Communications Commission, urging the Court to grant Consumers Research’s cert petition and enforce the Constitution’s system of checks and balances. At issue is the constitutionality of the Universal Service Fund, a social welfare program that subsidizes […]
Wichita, KS–In case you missed it, Americans for Prosperity-Kansas (AFP-KS) held several events in Garden City, Liberal, and Dodge City last Thursday and Friday to discuss the economic challenges many Kansans are faced with as a result of Bidenomics and the current administration’s failed economic policies. In addition to these events, AFP-KS was in Wichita […]
President Abraham Lincoln in many ways embodied the American dream. He came from humble beginnings yet rose to the highest office in the land. Born at a time when Black Americans were enslaved, he helped lead the charge to bring them into that dream. He was elected leader of a nation that was tearing itself […]
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania—On Tuesday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro announced he would appeal a Commonwealth Court decision which found that former Governor Tom Wolf acted outside his constitutional authority to enter Pennsylvania into the interstate carbon tax scheme known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). The Court found that RGGI participation amounts to a tax, which […]
Americans for Prosperity Foundation filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Corner Post, Inc. v. The Federal Reserve, urging the Court to allow Corner Post’s challenge to a 2011 debit-fees regulation that Corner Post believes to be beyond the Board’s power. The question presented may seem dry: when does a business’s legal […]
