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BATON ROUGE, La. – Americans for Prosperity-Louisiana (AFP-LA) released a statement Saturday calling for the legislature to pass a budget and sine die, concluding that a reasonable compromise that benefits Louisianans could not be reached. The statement comes after Governor Edwards notified the legislature his veto of two bills; HB 321 and HB 229, that would have increased transparency of how taxpayer dollars […]
Today, AFP is launching a digital advertising campaign thanking Senator Heitkamp (D-ND) for cosponsoring the Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act, (S. 2155), a bill that will ease constraints on regional and community banks put in place by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (H.R. 4173). To view the ad thanking Senator Heitkamp, click here. […]
Friday, June 1, 2018 Dear Senator / Assembly Member: On behalf of Americans for Prosperity – NJ, and our tens of thousands of activists across the Garden State, I urge you to please support and sponsor S-2540/A-3979, the “Dignity for Incarcerated Primary Caretaker Parents Act”, which would reduce the collateral consequences of incarceration on our […]
DENVER, Colo. – Americans for Prosperity-Colorado (AFP-CO) announced a digital campaign Friday thanking Sen. Cory Gardner and Sen. Michael Bennet for voting to roll back the over-restrictive regulations of the Dodd-Frank law passed in 2010. Both Senators voted to approve the Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act, (S. 2155). Sen. Bennet was a cosponsor. The bill will ease constraints on […]
Friday, June 1, 2018 Dear Senator / Assembly Member: On behalf of 137,000 Americans for Prosperity activists in New Jersey, as well as taxpayers across the Garden State, I write today to urge you to please oppose S-2567/A-4035, the creation of Urban Enterprise Zones (UEZ) in Hoboken. UEZs may sound good on paper, but they […]
“Imagine Where We Could Be Without The Specter Of Tariffs.” Arlington, VA – Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the economy gained 223,000 jobs in May and the U.S. unemployment rate fell to 3.8 percent, matching April 2000 as the lowest reading since 1969. Americans for Prosperity Chief Government Affairs Officer Brent Gardner issued the following statement: […]
Americans for Prosperity works to ensure that red tape doesn’t prevent American families from affording a home or starting a business. That is why AFP helped push Congress to enact the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act. The measure provides relief to community banks suffering under Dodd-Frank’s crushing regulations that force smaller banks to pass costs […]
“Taxpayers have been overcharged long enough,” says Lund Lansing, Mich. – The grassroots group Americans for Prosperity hailed today’s Michigan Board of Canvassers decision to approve the prevailing wage repeal petition for the ballot as a victory for taxpayers. Pete Lund, state director for the Michigan chapter, issued the following statement: “With this victory behind […]
