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The group will be key voting Thursday’s House vote on the Financial CHOICE Act Arlington, Va. – Today Americans for Prosperity’s Vice President of External Affairs Christine Harbin sat down with Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling to discuss the importance of the Financial CHOICE Act ahead of Thursday’s vote on the bill. The conversation […]
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 […]
It’s official: Kentucky just joined the right-to-work revolution. With the support of Americans for Prosperity, and despite union bosses’ desperate last-minute actions, right-to-work legislation was just passed by the Kentucky legislature and signed into law by Gov. Matt Bevin. This new law frees every employee from being forced to join a union and pay part […]
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 […]
Eight years ago, employment numbers were in freefall. The housing bubble burst, and Americans witnessed the federal takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the collapse of the financial services firm Lehman Brothers, and the bailout of insurer AIG. The coming recession would only get worse, Congress thought it could fix this mess […]
