Nov. 14, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging the House Rules Committee to adopt an amendment by U.S. Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) that would prevent tax avoidance through reinsurance by foreign insurers:

“One way foreign insurance companies have avoided paying taxes in the U.S. is through a legal tax dodge called affiliate reinsurance whereby profits are transferred to a tax haven, and then reinsurance is purchased from the affiliate. Fortunately, Congressman Ted Budd has submitted an amendment to the House Rules Committee that will restore tax equity between domestic and foreign insurers. We urge the committee to add this needed provision to the tax bill and close this loophole once and for all.”

Attachments:

Amendment to Rules Committee Print 115-39, Offered by Mr. Budd of North Carolina, Nov. 14, 2017 at https://getliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/BUDD_035_xml.pdf

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Nov. 10, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging tax cuts for every American who pays taxes and significant budget reforms to rein in the $20 trillion debt:

“The U.S. is coming off the worst decade for economic growth since the GDP was invented as a measure, even worse than the Great Depression. To get out of this funk, one of the things Congress must be focused on is cutting taxes across the board, not robbing Peter to pay Paul, raising taxes on some Americans to give tax cuts to other Americans. Raising taxes in some of the most highly taxed areas in the country among wealthier Americans is not a recipe for growth. Individual tax cuts were the centerpiece of the 1981 Reagan tax cuts, and the major reason for the low-inflation growth explosion of the 1980s. That is the model we should be following, where everyone’s taxes, including business taxes, are cut.

“Secondly, the U.S. has surpassed $20 trillion debt and the current budget deficit is getting larger once again after a few years of falling. Given the massive emergency spending demands, Congress needs to recognize that the budget which they passed is a ceiling not a floor for spending. President Trump in his budget offered $4.5 trillion of real spending cuts over 10 years. Why aren’t those being implemented, if only to offset the emergency spending increases? Where are the Republican proposals in Congress to cut spending by trillions of dollars? During the primary, Trump was supposed to be the fiscal liberal and it’s turned out that he is a fiscal hawk compared to what we’re seeing out of Congress. Cut spending, or go home. We’re going broke with $20 trillion of debt and growing because a weak Republican majority is unwilling to do the only responsible thing they can do about it, and that’s cut spending.”

Attachments:

“Bigger tax cut needed for Trump to get the economy moving again,” By Robert Romano, Nov. 10, 2017 at http://netrightdaily.com/2017/11/bigger-tax-cut-needed-trump-get-economy-moving/

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Nov. 8, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising Attorney General Jeff Sessions for leading the charge to apply robust antitrust scrutiny to the AT&T-Time Warner merger by requiring either the sale of Directv or Turner Broadcasting, which includes CNN:

“Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ leadership of the Department of Justice has ensured that concerns over the AT&T-Time Warner merger are being heavily scrutinized. President Trump expressed these same concerns in Oct. 2016 when he was running for president and Attorney General Sessions is making certain that the proposed merger meets the letter and spirit of antitrust laws. The reported demand that either Turner Broadcasting, which includes CNN, or Directv be removed from the deal is reasonable in order to prevent to keep separate news content from dominant content delivery vehicles.”

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Nov. 7, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement reacting to the revelation that Fusion GPS CEO Glenn Simpson met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya both before and after her meeting with Donald Trump, Jr. in June 2016:

“Today’s report that Fusion GPS CEO Glenn Simpson met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya both before and after her meeting with Donald Trump, Jr. in June 2016 is breathtaking. It is clear the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign paid for a consultant who was using Russians in an attempt to create the appearance of collusion through false offers of dirt on Hillary Clinton. Even the Closseau-like Robert Mueller should be able to piece this together and see that Fusion GPS is at the center of his investigation into the 2016 election.

“It is also reasonable to assume that the Clinton campaign did not receive any information from that meeting that they deemed relevant in the campaign, except for the meeting itself, or else they would have used it. If taking a meeting with Russians is deemed a criminal act, then Simpson and everyone else who used Russian sources for the dossier, including the Clinton campaign since they paid for it, should apparently be in jail. It should also be clear to anyone with an ounce of honest blood flowing through their veins that the entire foundation of the Mueller investigation is based on a manufactured concept. If taking a meeting is criminalized, no one in Washington, D.C. can be exempt from Mueller’s witch hunt. It’s time to close Robert Mueller’s desperate search for criminality where none exists.”

Attachments:

“Why did the Russians try to deliver ‘dirt’ on Hillary Clinton to the Trump campaign—three times? And what did Fusion GPS know about it? Was the Trump campaign being set up?” By Robert Romano, Oct. 31, 2017 at http://netrightdaily.com/2017/10/russians-try-deliver-dirt-hillary-clinton-trump-campaign-three-times-fusion-gps-know-trump-campaign-set/

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Nov. 6, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting CNN for butchering a quote from President Donald Trump in Japan speaking to business leaders there where he actually said “I also want to recognize the business leaders in the room whose confidence in the United States — they’ve been creating jobs — you have such confidence in the United States, and you’ve been creating jobs for our country for a long, long time. Several Japanese automobile industry firms have been really doing a job. And we love it when you build cars — if you’re a Japanese firm, we love it — try building your cars in the United States instead of shipping them over” praising automakers for making cars in the U.S. into a quote where he was somehow criticizing them for not doing so:

“Once again, this is CNN, reporting an apple is a banana, turning a quote that clearly shows President Trump praising Japanese automakers for making cars in America for years into an allegation that he was unaware of that fact.

“Not even Hillary Clinton’s DNC would have tried to be this dishonest at the height of the campaign season.

“In light of this latest malfeasance by CNN, it is stunning that Time Warner, the owners of CNN, would expect their proposed merger with AT&T to be approved by the Department of Justice. The AT&T-Time Warner merger would provide a profit motive for the promotion of CNN’s fake news, and that would truly be bad for America.”

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Nov. 3, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to press reports stating that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had recused himself from the Uranium One case:

“Americans for Limited Government has learned from an unimpeachable source that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has not recused himself from the Uranium One case. The fact that the Attorney General ended the non-disclosure agreement for the Uranium One whistleblower provides the proof that Sessions is actively involved the Uranium One case. Unfortunately, the Attorney General cannot conduct any investigations through press releases and sound bites allowing the rest of us to receive a blow by blow description of every action that might be under way. Suffice to say, the Attorney General is in the game on Uranium One, contrary to some reports.”

To view online: https://getliberty.org/2017/11/attorney-general-sessions-never-recused-himself-from-uranium-one/

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Nov. 2, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising reports that the Justice Department may be pursuing an antitrust lawsuit to stop the AT&T-Time Warner merger:

“Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Justice Department are moving forward with keeping one of the Trump’s key campaign promises by carefully considering an antitrust lawsuit to block the AT&T-Time Warner merger. This is a move in the right direction and absolutely necessary to stop the merger. The immense power via consolidation that AT&T and Time Warner would wield post-merger threatens the First Amendment rights of every American. By considering this lawsuit against the AT&T-Time Warner merger, once again, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is doing the right thing for America.”

Attachments:

Letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions opposing AT&T-Time Warner merger, updated, Oct. 26, 2017 at https://getliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Updated-DOJ-letter-on-ATT-TW-signed6.pdf

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Nov. 1, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to Campaign Legal Center senior director of trial litigation Adav Noti’s statement that “if a campaign solicits or accepts opposition research without paying for it, the value of that research constitutes a solicitation for, or an in-kind contribution to, the campaign”:

“The absurdity of the position taken by the failed opponent of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, Adav Noti, is an incredible leap, contending that information given to a political campaign somehow constitutes an in-kind contribution. By that standard, every FEC report would have to become a bibliography of all information ever received by a campaign on an opposing candidate. Any free mention of an opposing candidate, positive or negative, with real or fictitious information, solicited or accepted to a campaign, in the media or elsewhere, foreign or domestic, would apparently need to be accounted for. That would apply even if the information is never even actually received or if received if it was ever even used. Every reporter who received a tip about a campaign and brought it to another campaign’s attention to get a react might need to be reported to the FEC by the campaign. Subscriptions to third party newsletters providing information on opposing candidates might have to be reported. Use of free third party services such as search engines providing information might have to be reported. All emails received by a campaign from third parties providing information might have to be reported. It is absurd. Under this extreme vision that speech is money, the only people who would not be allowed to get unpaid-for information on opposing candidates from third parties would be political campaigns because it would be practically impossible to account for.

“The fact is, information, which is First Amendment protected speech, has never been treated as a contribution by the FEC that could be prohibited if not properly accounted for or coming from a foreign source, nor should it, because of the burdens it would place on the exercise of constitutionally protected speech.”

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Oct. 31, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement noting the pattern appearing in the special counsel probe where Trump campaign officials were offered Hillary Clinton ‘dirt’ at least three times from sources purporting to be Russia:

“It looks like the Trump campaign was being set up with these meetings and repeated offers of Hillary Clinton ‘dirt’ under false pretenses from sources purporting to represent Russia. The question is who was perpetrating the fraud? There were three instances where Trump campaign people were reportedly offered ‘dirt’ on Hillary Clinton in order to entice meetings that were not what they appeared to be. That is no coincidence, it is a pattern. This Hillary Clinton ‘dirt’ was reportedly offered in the cases of George Papadopoulos, who appeared in the special counsel probe, Carter Page, who appeared in the Fusion GPS-Christopher Steele dossier, and Donald Trump, Jr., who was baited into the meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. According to Bill Browder, Veselnitskaya once hired Fusion GPS to do a dirty dossier on him, similar to the one that was put on then-candidate for president Donald Trump. If not Russia, then it is Fusion GPS who House and Senate investigators must question to get to the bottom of who was trying to set up the Trump campaign — and why?”

Attachments:

“Why did the Russians try to deliver ‘dirt’ on Hillary Clinton to the Trump campaign—three times? And what did Fusion GPS know about it? Was the Trump campaign being set up?” By Robert Romano, Oct. 31, 2017 at http://netrightdaily.com/2017/10/russians-try-deliver-dirt-hillary-clinton-trump-campaign-three-times-fusion-gps-know-trump-campaign-set/

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