Feb. 14, 2017, Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement reacting to the resignation of former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn:

“It is absurd that in today’s world, Gen. Flynn having an honest conversation with one of his foreign counterparts in preparation of the incoming administration in December was ever a firestorm in the first place. What is particularly disturbing and unacceptable is that the Obama administration engaged in surveillance of Flynn, who did nothing wrong or illegal by having the conversation, and then had it leaked to the press on Jan. 13, a week before President Trump took office, all with the purpose of actively undermining Trump and his proposed policies. And then after Trump was sworn in, the deep state bureaucratic establishment, our permanent government, decided it was necessary to leak the contents of the conversation to inflict more damage.

“These are police state tactics. Flynn, being an honorable man of unimpeachable character, took the political fall. But this must not stand.

“Every single person responsible for illegally surveilling the Trump campaign and then the transition and now the administration if it’s still going on should be prosecuted and/or fired. Every single person responsible for illegally leaking said surveillance to the press should be prosecuted and/or fired. This witch hunt turned bureaucratic coup that cost Flynn his job cannot be allowed to stand, because it is only the latest instance of apparent sabotage by career government employees. They will not stop.

“This should be immediate cause for Congress to address real civil service reform that will give the president discretion to remove government employees in every department and agency that actively undermine an administration. No career employees in the executive branch are entitled to their jobs, and it is time they learned that it is the president who makes policy, not them.”

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Feb. 9, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging Congress and the President to renew scrutiny of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, which offers low-cost financing to foreign airlines to purchase Boeing planes, in light of the meeting of airline executives with President Donald Trump:

“U.S. airline industry executives meeting with President Trump today would be remiss not to remind the President that the U.S. government subsidizes foreign air carriers purchase of airliners from Boeing Corporation through the Export-Import Bank, putting domestic carriers at a competitive disadvantage.

“Foreign air carriers pay lower interest rates due to Ex-Im Bank guarantees of payment for Boeing aircraft than domestic carriers. One thing that fiscal conservatives can agree on is that Export-Import Bank reeks of the exact kind of crony capitalism that the President was elected to uproot.

“Today’s meeting at the White House should re-open scrutiny of the Ex-Im Bank and Congress should take action to end the Ex-Im Bank as part of their efforts to drain the D.C. swamp.”

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Feb. 8, 2017, Fairfax, Va.–Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging Senate confirmation of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as Attorney General later on today:

“Jeff Sessions will restore the rule of law as our nation’s next Attorney General. Whether it is enforcing our nation’s immigration laws as written or ending the war on police, Sessions will usher in a new climate that respects the law and law enforcement as vital pillars of the civil society. Nobody is above the law, including government officials, and under Sessions’ watch and with his impeccable character, we can be assured of its consistent application. Besides naming Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, this is the most important appointment President Trump has made, and we urge Sessions’ confirmation today.”

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Feb. 2, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement congratulating Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao on her Senate confirmation:

“I had the honor of serving under Secretary Elaine L. Chao at the Labor Department in the President George W. Bush Administration and know that our nation’s transportation systems will be in good hands with her steerage in the Trump Administration. Secretary Chao will do a fantastic job of addressing many of the challenges that have been left behind ranging from an aging infrastructure system to reining in ill-advised, unrealistic CAFÉ standards for automobiles, President Trump has the right person to help him make America great again.”

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Feb. 2, 2017, Fairfax, Va.–Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in support of legislation offered by Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), HR 732, that would block cash settlements to third party activist groups in legal cases to which the U.S. is a party to:

“This legislation prevents the legal extortion of contributions to political activist groups and others from defendants during the settlement process.  It is wholly inappropriate for the Department of Justice to dictate the political distribution of funds through the legal process. The abuses of the Obama Administration in using mortgage settlements as liberal advocacy funding tools will be shut down forever through the passage of HR 732.”

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Feb. 1, 2017, Fairfax, Va.–Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising the Senate Judiciary Committee for putting President Donald Trump’s nominee to be Attorney General, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), to the floor of the Senate for an up or down vote:

“With former Obama Justice Department officials still acting as if Jan. 20 never happened, it imperative that the Senate immediately confirm Jeff Sessions to be the next Attorney General.

“Senator Sessions, as all his colleagues know, is a soft-spoken man of honor and of the utmost character, just the man the nation needs to restore the rule of law. Enough stalling. With a Supreme Court Justice now to consider, it is important the Senate clear the floor of nominations so that the Trump administration can get to work.”

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Jan. 31, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging Senate confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch:

“The election of 2016 was a referendum on who would get to select the next Supreme Court justice to replace the late Antonin Scalia. President Trump’s wise and thoughtful selection of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court should be respected by the Senate, which has the constitutional responsibility to provide for a fair and expedited hearing process, and an up or down vote decided by a simple majority of the Senate. If Senate Majority Leader McConnell faces the sort of obstruction that has been promised by some in the minority, including the use of the filibuster, to block consideration of Gorsuch, it will be incumbent on him to use all means necessary to ensure that this qualified and outstanding jurist is confirmed.

“It is time for the Senate minority to reconcile itself to the fact their party lost the election, and stop behaving like spoiled children who didn’t get a candy bar in the grocery store.”

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