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No vote on gas tax hike in House after strong opposition from Louisianans, real work just beginning. BATON ROUGE – Americans for Prosperity – Louisiana (AFP-LA), the leading grassroots advocate working against raising the gas tax, is claiming victory for halting a proposed gas tax hike. AFP-LA volunteers made their opposition clear to lawmakers by […]
Arlington, Va. – AFP is commending Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai for advancing a plan for the FCC to roll back Obama-era Internet regulations, which improperly classified the Internet as a Title II telecommunications service under the Communications Act, and imposed rules commonly known as net neutrality. These rules, formally known as the Open Internet Order, prohibited Internet […]
Americans for Prosperity has issued a coalition letter in support of the Financial CHOICE Act. You can read the full letter below. AFP Vice President of External Affairs Chrissy Harbin issued the following statement on the Financial CHOICE Act: “We’re proud to support Congressman Hensarling’s efforts to roll back some of the worst Dodd-Frank provisions, […]
Arlington, Va. — Americans for Prosperity applauded a move by the White House today that provided specific instructions to federal agencies to “maximize employee performance” and accountability and eliminate duplicative, non-essential or unnecessary programs. This action, led by Office of Management and Budget Director (OMB) Mick Mulvaney, builds upon an executive order signed in March […]
Today, the Wisconsin State Senate Passed SB 3 which seeks to bring fairness to public works contracting. MADISON – This afternoon the Wisconsin State Senate passed SB 3, a project labor agreement neutrality reform bill. Under the bill, governmental units will no longer be able to mandate that a business enter a project labor agreement […]
Arlington, VA. – Americans for Prosperity, Americans for Tax Reform, Heritage Action For America and FreedomWorks called on members of Congress today to oppose consideration of passing an internet sales tax plan during the current lame duck session of Congress. “With less than two weeks until lawmakers leave Washington, many of them for good, the […]
June 27, 2016 Dear Chairman Hensarling: On behalf of more than 2.8 million Americans for Prosperity activists in all 50 states, I write in strong support of the Creating Hope and Opportunity for Investors, Consumers and Entrepreneurs (CHOICE) Act. Your legislation includes an impressive number of meaningful changes to federal banking laws that will reduce […]
Arlington, Va. — Americans for Prosperity is proud to lead a nationwide coalition of 60 conservative organizations in expressing concern over the EPA’s Ozone Standard. Today the coalition sent a letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, urging them each to take action against the revised ozone […]
Today Americans for Prosperity – the nation’s largest advocate for economic freedom – issued a statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision to block President Obama’s far-reaching energy regulations. Americans for Prosperity CEO Luke Hilgemann had this to say: “President Obama famously declared he would use his pen and phone to go around Congress […]
