Sept. 10, 2015, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to a Senate vote denying cloture to a resolution of disapproval of the Iran nuclear deal:

“Predictably, Harry Reid’s Senate Democrats are cowering from a vote on whether to support President Obama’s Iranian nuclear treaty. The fact that Obama does not want a Senate vote on his deal should make it clear that it would be rejected on a bipartisan basis in both houses.

“Given that Obama has not complied with the terms of the Corker-Cardin legislation and the deal he submitted is in fact a treaty, the Senate should abide by his wishes and not vote under this flawed process. Instead, the Senate should consider the deal as a treaty under Article II of the Constitution, requiring a two-thirds ratification vote of senators present, take it up, and defeat it.”

Attachments:

Iran nuclear deal show votes won’t matter, By Robert Romano, Sept. 4, 2015 at http://netrightdaily.com/2015/09/iran-nuclear-deal-shows-votes-wont-matter/

Interview Availability: Please contact Americans for Limited Government at 703-383-0880 ext. 106 or at media@limitgov.org to arrange an interview with ALG experts including ALG President Rick Manning.

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Sept. 10, 2015, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to the exclusive report from the Daily Beast that U.S. intelligence on the Islamic State terrorist group out of CENTCOM is being cooked “to adhere to the administration’s public line that the U.S. is winning the battle against ISIS and al Nusra, al Qaeda’s branch in Syria”:

“The execution of U.S. foreign policy, particularly at the classified level, depends on accurate, unvarnished information being presented to policy makers including elected leaders. The decision by the Obama administration to alter this information for political reasons to downplay the threat posed by Islamic State is unconscionable and those responsible should be rooted out and fired.

“Members of Congress must now call into question all the information that is being presented by the administration from CENTCOM, particularly on Iran’s nuclear capabilities. If there is a problem with reporting to do with Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, then that raises the question of what other reporting in CENTCOM’s area of responsibility, which includes Iran, is being cooked.”

Attachments:

50 Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked, By Shane Harris and Nancy A. Youssef, Sept. 9, 2015 at http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/09/exclusive-50-spies-say-isis-intelligence-was-cooked.html

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Sept. 4, 2015, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government announced that they will be sponsoring an airplane flyover of the tailgate preceding the Oklahoma University football opener against the University of Akron.

Tailgate crowds will see the message #return the stolen art for two hours prior to the game, a commentary on the University of Oklahoma’s decision to fight against returning the painting “Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep” by Camille Pissarro that was stolen from a Jewish family by the Nazis.

Rick Manning, President of Americans for Limited Government explained the issue saying, “OU has the responsibility to return this art piece to the family that it was confiscated by Hitler’s regime. It is reprehensible that they are setting the moral example for their students that it is okay to do the wrong thing as long as you feel you can get away with it.”

The banner overflight during the pre-game tailgate is designed to bring attention to this issue to the University’s alumni and supporter base in the hopes that OU President David Boren will be convinced to quit spending tens of thousands of dollars in legal expenses to hold onto the artwork.

Manning continued, “It must be noted that OU received the painting legally, as it was donated in good faith, the Sooners culpability is their decision to fight to keep it when the family that is the rightful owner stepped forward.

“As a group that defends private property rights, Americans for Limited Government views this battle as the ultimate reminder of the dangers of big government unconstrained by the rule of law. It is our deepest hope that OU returns the stolen art, and this lesson in history creates an honest discussion about the dangers of our own nation’s asset forfeiture laws.”

In conjunction with the flyover, a number of OU students will be distributing leaflets at the tailgate urging University President Boren to #returnthestolenart.

Attachments:

Hitler stole it flier, Americans for Limited Government, Sept. 4, 2015 at http://getliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/HITLER-STOLE-IT-handout.pdf

Interview Availability: Please contact Americans for Limited Government at 703-383-0880 ext. 106 or at media@limitgov.org to arrange an interview with ALG experts including ALG President Rick Manning.

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Aug. 17, 2015, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Foundation President Nathan Mehrens today issued the following statement upon posting a request to the China Ministry of State Security for Hillary Clinton’s email records:

“Hillary Clinton has turned in a blank email server to the FBI in the ongoing investigation into whether classified information was improperly handled on that server. However, it has been reported that Beijing may have been intercepting her emails for years. Given that the Chinese government has an open records policy that sounds very much like the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, Americans for Limited Government Foundation has posted a records request seeking from the Minister of State Security the release of all of Hillary Clinton’s emails from her private, non-governmental accounts.

“Naturally, we would assume that the Chinese would redact all classified information to avoid embarrassing former Secretary Clinton. It is our expectation that the government of China will meet their own 30-day window under Chinese law for fulfilling the request.”

Attachments:

Records request to Minister of State Security, Beijing, China, August 17, 2015 at http://getliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/China-Ministry-of-State-Security_FOIA_Clinton-Emails_08-17-15.pdf

Interview Availability: Please contact Americans for Limited Government at 703-383-0880 ext. 106 or at media@limitgov.org to arrange an interview with ALG experts including ALG Foundation President Nathan Mehrens.

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August 7, 2015, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement questioning Gov. John Kasich’s (R-Ohio) incredible contention that he achieved a $5 trillion surplus as House Budget Committee Chairman in the 1990s:

“John Kasich claims to have generated a magical $5 trillion surplus in his tenure as Budget Committee Chairman. Who’s he kidding? First of all, the national debt in 2000 was $5.7 trillion. Why didn’t we pay off the debt with that windfall? Second, a cursory review of the national debt shows it actually increased every year when Kasich was in charge of the budget, and has not decreased by a single dollar since 1957. What surplus? What’s he talking about?

“To put the claim of a $5 trillion surplus into context, the total revenues of the U.S. government in 2014 was $3 trillion, an all-time high. No matter how you cut the numbers, there never was a $5 trillion surplus in a single year, in a 10-year period, or a 20-year period. You just can’t make this stuff up.

While we wish Kasich’s statement had been true, it is up to the press to find out what happened to the $5 trillion surplus, because if it was true, Fort Knox has been robbed in probably the greatest heist in history.”

Interview Availability: Please contact Americans for Limited Government at 703-383-0880 ext. 106 or at media@limitgov.org to arrange an interview with ALG experts including ALG President Rick Manning.

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August 7, 2015, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to reports of Russia being suspected of hacking the Joint Chiefs of Staff email server:

“The White House has been hacked, and now the Joint Chiefs of Staff email server. The Internet is no longer safe. At the same time, the Obama administration is prepared to turn over control of the domain name system to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and global multistakeholders. Congress must act in the 2016 budget to protect U.S. oversight of this critical Internet architecture, without which global communications could be compromised as part of a wider attack on the homeland. This is a bad deal, and jeopardizes national security.”

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July 28, 2015, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government board member Bill Wilson today issued the following statement joining 18 House Republicans who in a letter urged the House Judiciary Committee to commence hearings on H.R. 1995, “The Local Zoning and Property Rights Protection Act of 2015,” which would prohibit the Department of Housing and Urban Development from implementing a rule, “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing”:

“The radical HUD plan to condition federal funding on rezoning neighborhoods to achieve a subjective and punitive set of quotas is a utopian pipe dream, and a federal attempt to usurp local zoning authority. We urge the House Judiciary Committee to take up H.R. 1995, and to require political partisans at HUD to justify this raw power grab. This has nothing to do with individual cases of housing discrimination, which have been illegal for over 40 years. Like the IRS abuse of power targeting people who disagree with them, the Obama appointees are using the power of government to harm communities that do not vote or act as Obama and his allies think they should. It is social engineering, nothing more.”

Attachments:

Hearing Request Letter, July 28, 2015, sent by Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and 17 House Republicans at http://getliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/07-28-15-hearing-request-letter-on-H-R-1995.pdf

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July 20, 2015, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government today issued the following statement urging the U.S. Senate to take up the Iran nuclear deal as a treaty and defeat it:

“President Obama has failed to abide by the terms of the Corker Iran bill in delivering the Iran nuclear accord. The legislation was limited to lifting certain sanctions related to Iran’s nuclear agreements, not lifting sanctions on missiles and other weapons activities as the deal does. In the meantime, all Obama believes he has all he needs with the vote at the United Nations Security Council to authorize the deal.

“Our nation’s foreign policy cannot be run out of the United Nations. Without a positive vote in Congress for his deal, Obama shows his outright contempt for Congress and the Constitution. The Senate should bring the Iran deal up under the Treaty Clause of the Constitution and reject it. It is time to restore constitutional government, and stop giving Iran a legal basis to continue enriching uranium for weapons.”

Attachments:

“Congress Must Ditch the Corker Bill and Treat the Iran Deal as Either a Treaty or Proposed Legislation to be Voted Up or Down,” By Andrew C. McCarthy, July 20, 2015 at http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/421349/congress-must-ditch-corker-bill-and-treat-iran-deal-either-treaty-or-proposed

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