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Arlington, Va. – Americans for Prosperity issued a statement today following the announcement from EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt that his agency will work to set more appropriate GHG emission standards and Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards (CAFE). The organization commended Administrator Pruitt and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao for their decision to reevaluate fuel economy standards […]
The announcement Monday from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reevaluate future fuel economy standards is a victory for all Americans, especially for the millions of consumers being priced out of the automotive market by government-imposed costs. One of the last actions of President Obama’s EPA was to rush a Final Determination on fuel economy […]
Below is a sample email for a generic House member who voted for the Prop 301 sales tax extension/hike, but who has performed well on our coalition’s other key bills so far in the session. Here is the spreadsheet: 2018 AZ Rep Generic D7 03-28-2018 And here is a PDF of this letter: 2018 AZ House Generic […]
Remember that time last year when the federal government imposed a 30-percent tax on solar panels? Many were left scratching their heads, unsure what the point of that was. Nevada’s Americans for Prosperity state director, Juan Martinez, wrote in a recent op-ed published by the Las Vegas Sun that those tariffs were what Varun Sivaram of the Council on Foreign Relations called “regulatory capture not to an industry but to an ideology” […]
TOPEKA, Ks. – Americans for Prosperity-Kansas’ (AFP-KS) commended the Senate for voting for SCR 1612, a resolution that recognizes the high utility rates that Kansans currently pay and urges the state corporation commission to lower retail electric rates to regionally competitive levels. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Kansans pay more for electricity than all states in […]
Arlington, Va. – Americans for Prosperity today praised the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for voting to unleash the implementation of 5G by removing regulatory barriers to access in an effort to boost innovation in America’s next generation mobile network. At the FCC’s monthly meeting today, commissioners approved proposed rules seeking to streamline wireless infrastructure deployment. AFP Federal Affairs Director Mary Kate Hopkins issued the […]
New Jersey Lawmakers Graded on their Votes in Trenton TRENTON, N.J. – Americans for Prosperity-New Jersey (AFP-NJ) today released its Taxpayer Scorecard for the 2016-17 legislative session. The Garden State’s leading free-market grassroots organization produces this comprehensive digest to educate New Jerseyans on how their state elected officials voted on over 40 of the most […]
Click on the link below for a printable PDF version of AFP-Arizona’s 2018 Legislative Agenda and Scorecard scoring rubric (updated 03/15/2018) afpaz2018LegAgendaIdesOfMarch AFP-Arizona will improve the well-being of Arizona citizens by passing legislative policy reforms that expand economic freedom. The 2018 scorecard will be the 35th annual scorecard put out by AFP-Arizona and the Arizona Federation […]
Monday, March 5, 2018 Dear Senator / Assembly Member: On behalf of more than 137,000 Americans for Prosperity activists in New Jersey, I write to you in opposition to the proposal for nuclear subsidies for New Jersey’s power plants. After numerous iterations of the same proposal, it should be rather clear that the people of […]
