June 5, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting FBI Director Christopher Wray for refusing to turn over the Form FD-1023 that alleges President Joe Biden was bribed when he was Vice President for $5 million by a foreign national in exchange for influence over policy decisions:

“FBI Director Christopher Wray continues to act as if the agency he leads has zero responsibility to Congress.  His failure to comply with a subpoena by the House Government Oversight and Accountability Committee for an unclassified document containing allegations of a $5 million bribery scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden is just another example of Wray’s abuse of power, and on-going failure to do his job when it comes to corruption allegations related to the Biden family.  From hiding, denying and lobbying news and social media companies about the veracity of Hunter Biden’s laptop to suppressing efforts to unwind foreign contributions to the Biden family, Christopher Wray has proven to be the worse FBI Director in the Agency’s history.

“Unfortunately, the U.S. Attorney of the District of Columbia will ignore any contempt of Congress citation issued, much like then Obama Attorney General Eric Holder skated in spite of ignoring Congressional oversight related to the Justice Department’s ‘Fast and Furious’ gun running scandal which led to the death of an Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.

“Americans are getting pretty sick of the unequal application of justice in the country, and unfortunately, Wray’s obstruction of a congressional investigation furthers the growing belief that liberal politicians and their relatives are above the law.”

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June 1, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in support of Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) amendment to cut 5 cents out of every dollar spent dollar of federal spending excluding Social Security:

“Americans for Limited Government urges passage of Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) amendment to the Biden-McCarthy Debt Deal to cut five cents out of every dollar spent by the federal government, while restoring Congress’ Article One Constitutional control over federal spending. Senator Paul’s alternative leaves Social Security untouched while forcing our elected representatives to make real choices about how taxpayer dollars are spent.

“Americans are tired of empty balanced budget promises from politicians.  The Paul amendment lays a pathway to balance, something nowhere to be found in the debt ceiling bill passed by the House of Representatives yesterday in spite of bi-partisan opposition.”

Attachments:

“Debt Deal: Disaster or Disappointment?” By Rick Manning, May 30, 2023 at https://dailytorch.com/2023/05/debt-deal-disaster-or-disappointment/

“McCarthy says debt deal ‘largest spending cut’ in history. Is he correct?” By Robert Romano, May 31, 2023 at https://dailytorch.com/2023/05/mccarthy-says-debt-deal-largest-spending-cut-in-history-is-he-correct/

“House easily passes debt ceiling increase and spending caps 314 to 117, Senate passage expected — debt will still rise to more than $49 trillion by 2033” By Robert Romano, June 1, 2023 at https://dailytorch.com/2023/06/house-easily-passes-debt-ceiling-increase-and-spending-caps-314-to-117-senate-passage-expected-debt-will-still-rise-to-more-than-49-trillion-by-2033/

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May 26, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising the Supreme Court’s decision in Sackett v. EPA that overturned an Obama era regulation, the Waters of the U.S.:

“The federal government can no longer turn a drainage ditch into a regulated waterway as the Supreme Court decided in Sackett v. EPA that attempts by the Environmental Protection Agency exceeded their regulatory power.

“Thank goodness common sense is being restored somewhere in America.  No one in their right mind would consider a drainage ditch on a farm to be a regulable body of water under the Clean Water Act, yet federal regulators subjected a couple in Idaho to $40,000 a day fines over whether they could operate farming activity around a ditch.  Prior to the Supreme Court opinion, the EPA interpretation of the Clean Water Act effectively gave the federal government operational control of much of the land in America. Freedom lovers have been given another ray of hope that the U.S. Constitution and the liberties it guarantees still survive in American, even as the rotting administrative state continues to thrust itself into every aspect of our lives.  One would think that with the West Virginia v. EPA case and now the Sackett decision clearly cutting the bureaucracy’s reach that radical regulations would be on the downturn, but unfortunately the Biden administration continues to produce regulation after regulation disconnected from the laws passed by Congress and the Constitution in an attempt to direct the economic future of the country through red tape intimidation.

“Given the U.S. Supreme Court rulings, Congress should take action against agencies like the EPA which continue to do violence against the will of Congress by cutting funding to the regulation writers within that and other recalcitrant agencies.  With pending regulations seeking to end natural gas powered stoves, internal combustion powered vehicles and the electricity generating power plants which create about 60 percent of our nation’s electricity, ending funding for those who are actively defying the clear intent of the Court is Congress’ only responsible course of action.

“After all, the Biden strategy is to ignore legal rulings they don’t like and while using their interpretations of the law as a cudgel over the heads of anyone who disagrees with them, all in their battle for the ‘soul of America.’”

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May 23, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging the U.S. House of Representatives to pass S.J. Res. 11, providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to “Control of Air Pollution From New Motor Vehicles: Heavy-Duty Engine and Vehicle Standards”:

“America has been racked with supply chain disruptions throughout the Biden Administration. Some of these were a result of production failures in China and elsewhere, some were the result of California laws impacting the delivery of products from the docks to the rest of the country, and some were a result of the time it took to get the supply system flowing again after Covid.  However, there is no excuse for the Biden administration to put forward a regulatory standard which deliberately sabotages the ability of our nation’s trucking system to function in the future.

“It is not the EPA’s job to destroy and distort markets as this regulation would do, and Americans for Limited Government strongly urges the House to join the Senate in disapproving the ‘Control of Air Pollution from New Motor Vehicles: heavy-Duty Engine and Vehicle Standards’ regulation by passing S.J. Res. 11.”

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May 18, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in support of the “AM for Every Vehicle Act” by Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.):

“AM radio in vehicles is both a critical part of the national emergency broadcast system, but it is also one of the few reliable communications tools available to reach rural America.  Due to AM radio’s unique suitability for transmission over long distances and its usage for news/talk formats, AM’s presence in vehicles is as essential today as it was forty years ago.

“AM radio connects our nation and Senators Ted Cruz and Ed Markey are right to recognize through their joint introduction in the Senate of the ‘AM for Every Vehicle Act’ that auto manufacturers have a responsibility to include AM in the auto fleets of the future.”

Attachments:

“AM for Every Vehicle Act,” by Sens. Ted Cruz and Ed Markey, May 18, 2023 at https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/0B6AFBF2-8E91-4AD4-952C-7DB69CD908EB

“Sens. Cruz, Markey Lead Bipartisan, Bicameral Coalition on New Bill to Keep AM Radio in Vehicles,” Senate Commerce Committee, May 18, 2023 at https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2023/5/sens-cruz-markey-lead-bipartisan-bicameral-coalition-on-new-bill-to-keep-am-radio-in-vehicles

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May 9, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging the Senate to pass the Limit, Save, Grow Act:

“With inflation still elevated, regardless of tomorrow’s Bureau of Labor Statistics report, with the Federal Reserve having recently increased interest rates again, it is safe to say that interest costs on the $31.4 trillion national debt will continue to mount. Since government spending in recent years has been one of the primary drivers for too much money flooding the system, coming at a time of economic lockdowns and production halts from Covid, it was chasing too few goods.

“Since Covid ended in 2021, interest rates on 10-year treasuries have increased from about 1.5 percent to 3.5 percent at a time when the U.S. has been accumulating trillions of dollars of new debt, which has increased by $8.5 trillion since Jan. 2020, $7.8 trillion of which is publicly tradeable debt. In the meantime, in the next year alone, $7.1 trillion, or about 29.1 percent of the $24.6 trillion publicly tradeable debt will be coming due, according to the latest data from the U.S. Treasury.

“That is why the House Republican-offered Limit, Save, Grow Act is a reasonable approach to begin getting our spending under control. Over the next 10 years, interest owed on the debt alone will total more than $10 trillion, according to the White House Office of Management and Budget. The House plan would shave just $547 billion off of that, according to the Congressional Budget Office, in addition to another $4.3 trillion of real spending cuts. Consider that, $4.3 trillion of cuts only gets you $547 billion less debt service. This is why Limit, Save, Grow is just the first step in getting our fiscal house in order. It also why the Grow portion of Limit, Save, Grow is essential, because aggressive economic growth is the only way out the massive debt abyss that threatens to engulf us.”

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May 3, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement following Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) just announced that they are subpoenaing FBI Director Christopher Wray seeking a specific newly revealed document that could get to the bottom of credible whistleblower provided information that the FBI has been sitting on proof that then Vice President Joe Biden was allegedly involved in a criminal scheme with a foreign national “relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions”:

“FBI Director Christopher Wray has a history of sitting on information involving the Biden family for political purposes as witnessed by the FBI’s shameful role in not only covering up spying on Trump, but actively discouraging the distribution by social media and other news outlets of a 2020 New York Post story detailing politically damning and likely illegal revelations related to the Hunter Biden laptop.

“Due to Wray’s history of political misconduct in office, the whistleblower’s contention that his FBI is sitting on a Justice Department document that the whistleblower contends may reveal pay for play evidence between then Vice President Biden and a foreign national is credible.  It is important that Americans provide Joe Biden the presumption of innocence even as the left denies it to President Trump, because we must restore some semblance of the rule of law and equal justice in this country.

“Chairman Comer and Ranking Member Grassley are to be commended for their efforts to get to the bottom of what appears to be a credible allegation of corruption in the interest of justice, and hopefully the FBI Director won’t hide behind a hollow statement that the allegations are part of an on-going investigation and, for once, tell the American public the truth.”

Attachments:

“Grassley, Comer Demand FBI Record Alleging Criminal Scheme Involving Then-VP Biden,” May 3, 2023 at https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-comer-demand-fbi-record-alleging-criminal-scheme-involving-then-vp-biden

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April 26, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging passage of the H.R. 2811, the Limit, Save, Grow Act:

“Americans for Limited Government strongly urges the House of Representatives to pass the Limit, Save, Grow Act, H.R. 2811.

“Our nation is at a precipice of the $31. 4 trillion national debt which threatens our economic viability in unimaginable ways. When combined with the threat to the U.S. dollar as the world reserve currency, it is unimaginable that anyone would vote against legislation which responsibly cuts the size and scope of a federal government that has been artificially bloated by the Covid response.

“America cannot kick the spending can down the road any further.  We understand the distaste with raising the debt ceiling, but it would be an enormous mistake to miss this opportunity for the House to not only cut the fiscal growth of government, but also to pass the REINS Act and energy production permitting reform to put our nation back on the pathway to energy dominance.

“Please vote in favor of H.R. 2811.”

Attachments:

“Limit, Save, Grow will impose discretionary spending caps for about a decade, saving more than $3 trillion, but is it enough?” by Robert Romano, April 21, 2023 at https://dailytorch.com/2023/04/limit-save-grow-will-impose-discretionary-spending-caps-for-about-a-decade-saving-more-than-3-trillion-but-is-it-enough/

“Speaker McCarthy pushes for ‘debt limit negotiations’ with President Biden on $31.4 trillion debt as we stare into an abyss of ever larger banks,” by Robert Romano, April 18, 2023 at https://dailytorch.com/2023/04/speaker-mccarthy-pushes-for-debt-limit-negotiations-with-president-biden-on-31-4-trillion-debt-as-we-stare-into-an-abyss-of-ever-larger-banks/

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April 20, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising the U.S. House of Representatives for passing “The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023,” H.R. 734:

“Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to protect women’s sports by denying biological men from ‘competing’ in them.  The federal government has sought to create an even playing field for men and women in collegiate sports through enforcement of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.  Today, female collegiate athletes receive close to half of the college athletic scholarships and formerly non-existent women’s athletic programs are beginning to thrive – see the NCAA women’s basketball final which dominated sports talk while the men’s champion was largely ignored.

“The House passage of H.R. 7344, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, is a step ahead in the effort to restore some level of sanity in our nation’s athletic systems.  Only the most deluded would claim that there are not inherent biological differences between men and women.  In fact, at one point at the height of the best women’s tennis player in history’s career, Serena Williams, she unequivocally made this point.

“Appearing on the Late Show with David Letterman, Williams said, ‘Actually it’s funny, because Andy Murray, he’s been joking about myself and him playing a match. I’m like, ‘Andy, seriously, are you kidding me?’ For me, men’s tennis and women’s tennis are completely, almost, two separate sports.’

“The tennis all-time great continued, “If I were to play Andy Murray, I would lose 6-0, 6-0 in five to six minutes, maybe 10 minutes. No, it’s true. It’s a completely different sport. The men are a lot faster and they serve harder, they hit harder, it’s just a different game.”

“Women’s sports have made incredible leaps over the past fifty years, there is no excuse to destroy them on the altar of woke insanity.”

Attachments:

“Video: PASS The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023,” Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehUNkY_JFI

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