Dec. 6, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today in a statement praised Senate Republicans for rejecting a cloture motion on D.C. Circuit Court nominee Caitlin Halligan:

“Senate Republicans have done the right thing by blocking a radical, unqualified ideologue, Caitlin Halligan, from taking a seat on the federal bench. Along with Goodwin Liu, Halligan’s nomination marked a move by the Obama White House to reshape the federal judiciary into a cabal of leftists. Americans everywhere urge the Senate and Senate Republicans to maintain this stand against Obama’s takeover of the judiciary.”

Attachments:

Caitlin Halligan Nominee Alert, Americans for Limited Government, Feb. 2011 at www.getliberty.org/files/Caitlin Halligan NomineeAlert.pdf.

“ALG Urges Senate to Reject Cloture on D.C. Circuit Nominee Halligan,” Dec. 5, 2011 at http://getliberty.org/content.asp?pl=10&sl=5&contentid=796.

Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

Dec. 5, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today in a statement urged the Senate to reject a cloture D.C. Circuit Court nominee Caitlin Halligan:

“Not only does she have no prior experience as a judge, Caitlin Halligan is yet another judicial activist who makes up the law as she sees fit, making her unfit to serve on the bench.

“In a brief filed on behalf of the abortion industry in one case, she supported applying racketeering laws against prolife activists for merely expressing their First Amendment rights. Ironically, she sat on a committee that supported extending due process protections to non-citizens captured on the battlefield overseas in the prosecution of a war.

“This sort of constitutional flexibility, which seeks to use the force of law to suppress political opponents and yet protect America’s enemies, is abhorrent to most Americans. The Senate should reject cloture on Halligan.”

Attachments:

Caitlin Halligan Nominee Alert, Americans for Limited Government, Feb. 2011 at www.getliberty.org/files/Caitlin Halligan NomineeAlert.pdf.

Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

Dec. 2, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson responds to today’s unemployment numbers:

“Obama’s Labor Department report on the unemployment rate no longer passes the smell test as an accurate indicator of economic activity. The fact that the rate dropped almost half a percentage point to 8.6 in spite of the fact that the economy created fewer jobs than is necessary to meet the needs of Americans entering the workforce, puts the final nail in the coffin of the rate having any basis as a realistic indicator of the health of the U.S. economy.

“When you look behind the rate, you discover that the percentage of people who are participating in the workforce declined to 64 percent, with the workforce shrinking by one half of 1 percent in the past year alone. One percent in the labor participation rate equates to approximately 1.5 million Americans.

“Shockingly, fewer Americans are in the workforce today than a year ago. This is a startling indictment of Obama’s economic policy that has driven approximately 1.5 million Americans out of the workforce. Rather than hope, Obama has delivered economic despair.”

Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

Dec. 1, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today in a statement praised the House for passing legislation that would kill an NLRB proposed rule to shorten union electionsin order to curtail the time businesses have to make their case to their employees:

“The House is to be praised for voting on legislation that will kill the NLRB’s attempt to institute snap elections on behalf of union organizers. The rule, if implemented, will shorten the time businesses have to make their case to their employees. All of this is designed to expedite the unionization process on behalf of big labor. We thank members for standing up to the union bosses.”

Attachments:

“ALG Urges Support for Kline Bill to Kill NLRB Snap Elections,” Nov. 29, 2011 at http://getliberty.org/content.asp?pl=10&sl=5&contentid=792.

“Treating the NLRB symptoms not enough,” by ALG President Bill Wilson, Sept. 21, 2011 at http://netrightdaily.com/2011/09/treating-the-nlrb-symptoms-not-enough/.

the polling company™, inc./WomanTrend poll on behalf of Americans for Limited Government regarding National Labor Relations Board, Aug. 19-23, 2011 at www.getliberty.org/files/NLRBPoll8-19to8-23-11.pdf.

Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

Nov. 29, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today in a statement urged the House to adopt legislation proposed by Rep. John Kline, Chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, that would kill an NLRB proposed rule to shorten union elections in order to curtail the time businesses have to make their case to their employees:

“The NLRB is aggressively attempting to institute snap elections on behalf of unions, shortening the amount of time businesses will have to make their case to their employees. This has been on the top of big labor’s to-do list under the Obama Administration, and now the Board is attempting to proceed with the rule with just two members in favor.

“The agency is in such a rush to implement the rule prior to Craig Becker’s recess appointment expiring that Board Member Brian Hayes has not even been allowed to craft an official dissent to the rule prior to its adoption. This is simply outrageous, and goes against decades of precedent intended to protect the board’s legitimacy.

“Rep. John Kline’s legislation, HR 3094, should be adopted immediately to rein in this abusive power grab by the NLRB. However, the rulemaking is really unsurprising and should underscore just how out-of-control this agency really is.

“It is not enough to treat the symptoms of the agency’s overreaching quasi-judicial powers with mere stopgap measures. Congress must address this rogue agency in a comprehensive manner that will abolish its powers to serve as prosecutor, judge, and jury in favor of unions by also adopting HR 2978 by Rep. Austin Scott.”

Attachments:

“Treating the NLRB symptoms not enough,” by ALG President Bill Wilson, September 21st, 2011 athttp://netrightdaily.com/2011/09/treating-the-nlrb-symptoms-not-enough/.

the polling company™, inc./WomanTrend poll on behalf of Americans for Limited Government regarding National Labor Relations Board, Aug. 19-23, 2011 at www.getliberty.org/files/NLRBPoll8-19to8-23-11.pdf.

Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

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Nov. 29, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today issued the following statement responding to the announcement that the National Labor Relations Board intends to move forward tomorrow with a “quickie” ruling in violation of all of their precedents and protocols in favor of snap elections:

“This obscene attempt to implement through regulation changes in union election laws that Congress has repeatedly rejected is an affront to our nation’s Constitutional separation of powers. The Obama appointees on the Board clearly intend to rush through a monumental change in the law intended to give advantage to organized labor at the expense of fair and honest union elections in the workplace. Unfortunately, the only speed bump in their path is if they are prevented from having a quorum through the resignation of the lone dissenting member, Brian Hayes.

“Mr. Hayes has served on the Board with distinction, but there is no honor in allowing the rule of law to be trumped by petty partisan politics. As difficult as this decision would be, the only honorable path for Mr. Hayes is to resign his seat and deny the rogue majority the quorum necessary to pervert the law of the land.”

Attachments:

ALG Urges Support for Kline Bill to Kill NLRB Snap Elections, Nov. 29, 2011 at http://getliberty.org/content.asp?pl=10&sl=5&contentid=792.

Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

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Nov. 28, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today in a statement responded to Rep. Barney Frank’s decision not to seek reelection in 2012:

“Barney Frank has been a staunch defender of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac throughout the buildup of the housing bubble, even accusing critics of exaggerating the risks posed to the Government Sponsored Enterprises in the 2000’s. Under legislation Frank voted for in 1992, Fannie and Freddie only needed $900 of capital behind a $200,000 mortgage they guaranteed.

“From 2007 until the end of 2010, Frank was the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, and when the crisis hit was blindsided by the bankruptcy of the GSEs. Frank led the House’s efforts to bail out Fannie and Freddie and other financial institutions in 2008. To his departure, American taxpayers say good riddance.

“When the time came to reform the financial system, Frank excluded Fannie and Freddie from his signature legislation, even though the GSEs were ground zero of the financial crisis. Frank ignored the warning signs of the crisis, and then when it hit, did everything in his power to cover for Fannie and Freddie. Meaningful financial reform would have been to unwind government involvement in housing finance, instead of affirming it.

“Frank leaves behind a disastrous record that will have consequences for years if not decades to come. His departure comes about twenty years too late.”

Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

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Nov. 23, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today in a statement praised Senate Republicans for blocking the confirmation of the recess-appointed Donald Berwick for head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, leading to him stepping down:

“As government continues to struggle to find a way to add 30 million people to the taxpayer-funded health care rolls thanks to ObamaCare in the midst of a sovereign debt crisis, Senate Republicans are to be praised for blocking the confirmation of Berwick, an official who believes rationing health care is inevitable. In 2009 he said, ‘The decision is not whether or not we will ration care — the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.’

“Berwick also was a radical redistributionist, who believed the only way to have a ‘just, equitable, civilized, and humane’ health plan was to ‘redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate’. His doctrines were pure Marxism, and the only reason he even was allowed to serve was because he was recess-appointed by Barack Obama.

“Now Senate Republicans must be vigilant that whosoever Obama selects to replace Berwick is not just another radical extremist. The nation does not need anybody who believes it is just to take health care away from one person and give it to another as government sees fit.”

Attachments:

Donald Berwick Nominee Alert, May 2010, Americans for Limited Government athttp://www.getliberty.org/files/NomineeAlert%20-%20Donald%20%20Berwick%20-%20Administrator%20-%20CMMS%2005_04_10.pdf .

Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

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Nov. 21, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today in a statement urged Congress to simply accept the sequestration option under the August debt deal:

“Given the alternatives, which were phony spending cuts and higher taxes on producers and job creators, sequestration is by far the better deal. There should be no discussion of revenue reform until there are actual spending cuts on the table. All we see now are reductions in the growth of spending. What a farce.

“Even under sequestration, the budget will still increase every single year from 2013 through 2021, albeit at a slightly slower rate. That is, if it even goes into effect. The only year that matters is 2012, when no changes in spending are slated. By the time the 2013 fiscal year rolls around, does anyone expect that even the modest reductions in the growth rate of spending under sequestration will ever be implemented?

“The only thing that has changed under this fiasco is that the national debt ceiling was increased without any real concessions. That’s more borrowing, more spending, and no reform. This is not what the American people voted for in 2010.”

Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

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