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St. Paul, MN – Americans for Prosperity-Minnesota (AFP-MN) today released a Key Vote letter addressed to state senators opposing SF1098, legislation mandating drug price transparency. View Full Letter Here In the letter, Jason Flohrs, State Director for AFP-Minnesota expressed the following: “Compulsory price disclosure is unnecessary in a free market and unethical to the extent that it […]
Bill includes coalition recommendations for addressing the crisis The Wisconsin Legislature just passed a bipartisan coronavirus response package that included policy reforms recommended by the Wisconsin Free-Market Coalition. The Legislature is to be commended for avoiding the temptation to turn this into a massive spending bill, opting instead to exercise the fiscal restraint that provided […]
St. Paul, MN – Americans for Prosperity-Minnesota (AFP-MN) today released a letter to the Governor and state lawmakers commending them for their efforts in combating the COVID-19 outbreak and providing additional recommendations for the North Star State. View Full Letter Here In the letter, Jason Flohrs, State Director for AFP-Minnesota expressed the following: “We appreciate the challenges […]
Senate Health and Human Services Chairwoman Michelle Benson talks about the Legislative response (thus far) to Covid-19, challenges with modeling data and transparency, and getting millions of dollars where they’re needed quickly (but with accountability and oversight). In the second half: Prisons across the country are overcrowded and unsanitary, furthering the spread of the pandemic, […]
Arlington, VA – Less than two weeks after Congress passed the $2 trillion CARES Act, some lawmakers are already rushing to load up a new multi-billion dollar funding package despite the CARES Act having barely been implemented. Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips issued the following statement: “Now is the time to assess […]
In a matter of weeks, the coronavirus pandemic turned life in Wisconsin upside down. Schools are closed. Sporting events and concerts are cancelled. And, huge segments of the economy are shuttered. State and federal officials are still in the early stages of a policy response to the coronavirus pandemic. Their efforts have largely centered on […]
Arlington, VA – AFP Chief Government Affairs Officer Brent Gardner issued the following statement on recent reports that the Senate is considering $250 billion in additional funding for the Paycheck Protection Program, which provided an initial $350 billion for businesses to cover payroll and expenses during the coronavirus pandemic. “After $2 trillion in new spending, […]
Today, April 6, 2020, Governor Evers issued an executive order which suspended in-person voting for the April 7th spring election, moving in-person voting to June 9th, 2020. The state legislature has turned to the Wisconsin Supreme Court asking for relief. According to the governor’s EO, “all ballots already cast in the 2020 spring election will […]
Harrisburg, PA – Americans for Prosperity-Pennsylvania (AFP-PA) today commended members of the House State Government Committee for unanimously passing HB 995, The Fighting Chance Act. The bill creates a pilot program for red tape reduction aimed at minimizing regulations within the Board of Probation and Parole and Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs. State Director Ashley […]
