Dec. 12, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to the overwhelming results of the British elections, where the Tories have won a crushing landslide:

“British polling showed that Boris Johnson’s conservative party was barely clinging to hopes for a majority as late as two days ago. Instead the voters gave the Tories an overwhelming mandate to leave the European Union on Britain’s terms. As Democrats in America continue their blind partisan impeachment of President Donald Trump, the British results should scare the heck out of them as the original Brexit vote foreshadowed Trump’s victory. The Tory landslide may be a similar bellwether of 2020 results in the United States. Clearly, pollsters still don’t get the concerns of voters here in America or across the pond.”

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Dec. 12, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting the passage of the H.R. 3 drug pricing bill:

“Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s drug pricing legislation is so onerous that if it became law it would virtually guarantee that next generation cures for Alzheimer’s, various cancers and other senior-related illnesses would be strangled in their research cradles. Somehow Pelosi believes that by making it cost more money to develop a cure than you can make selling that cure is a good thing. Let me be clear, it is not moral to strip the hope away from people suffering from Alzheimer’s or other prevalent diseases under the guise of cutting drug costs. It is cruel.

“This is not just hyperbole, but a simple fact. Research dollars will not flow toward unprofitable enterprises. Congress itself recognizes this through their orphan drug tax treatments designed to make it profitable to develop medicines for rare diseases, yet Pelosi’s H.R. 3 would make the drugs designed to address illnesses that are most prevalent be subjected to rate caps ensuring that they would be unprofitable. H.R. 3 is almost akin to a vendetta bill against an industry that the Democrats appear to pathologically hate, and should be rejected.”

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Dec. 9, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement rejecting a deal between House and Senate negotiators on a bill to address surprise medical billing with government rate setting:

“A compromise bill from U.S. Representatives Greg Walden and Frank Pallone, and Sen. Lamar Alexander on surprise medical bills, if it still relies on government-rate setting will be a disaster for patients. It favors insurance companies, who will have a perverse incentive to remove rural community hospitals from their networks in order to compel artificially low reimbursement rates, leading to more hospital closures and limiting access. Bills offered by U.S. Rep. Phil Roe and Senators Bill Cassidy and Michael Bennet instead establish an independent board to settle billing disputes between doctors and insurance companies. While insurance companies may have the power in D.C., they are health care payment vehicles, not health care itself, and billing disputes should be independently decided to ensure continued quality health care access for all Americans.”

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Dec. 6, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement on the latest jobs report:

The unemployment rate is at a 50 year low at 3.5 percent. In the past year, 1.6 million people entered the workforce and an incredible 1.8 million people got jobs – this is an unprecedented run of job growth exceeding people entering the workforce at what many economists consider to be beyond full employment.  Even more significant, people who wanted work but had given up on applying was down 26 percent and people not looking because they believe no jobs are available for them was down 28 percent from a year earlier. Finally, and most importantly, fewer people are unemployed since the year 2000, when there were 19 million fewer Americans in the workforce.  The Trump economic miracle continues to astound as more and more Americans are achieving the American dream, and it is clear that the factless impeachment is a desperate partisan attempt to distract the nation from the greatest economy in any of our lifetimes.”

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Dec. 5, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to get to work on addressing surprise medical billings by considering legislation establishing third-party independent mechanisms for billing dispute resolution:

“Nancy Pelosi’s announcement that the House of Representatives is continuing its farcical impeachment push should be extremely disappointing to everyone who was hoping that Congress would focus on important issues like surprise medical billing, which catches families off guard with unanticipated medical costs after getting treatment out-of-network. There is a relatively easy, bipartisan legislative fix to this issue that hammers the pocketbooks of too many Americans, and those bills offered by U.S. Rep. Phil Roe and Senators Bill Cassidy and Michael Bennet, that creates an independent decisionmaker to settle billing disputes between doctors and insurance companies, taking powerless patients out of the bill collectors’ crosshairs. The question Nancy Pelosi should ask herself is how many Americans are going to be bankrupted by surprise medical bills because she is engaged in personal partisan impeachment vendetta.”

Attachments:

“Surprise medical billing should be addressed by independent neutral third party boards, not price fixing,” By Robert Romano, Nov. 26, 2019 at http://dailytorch.com/2019/11/surprise-medical-billing-should-be-addressed-by-independent-neutral-third-party-boards-not-price-fixing/

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Dec. 5, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging the Justice Department to inquire how confidential phone records protected under federal law were obtained by House Intelligence Committee without a law enforcement request from phone carriers:

“Attorney General William Barr should open an investigation into whether federal telecommunications privacy laws were violated when Adam Schiff subpoenaed confidential phone records from Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Jay Sekulow, U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes, and journalist John Solomon. Federal law only permits law enforcement agencies to obtain such records upon a warrant, and otherwise Congress required phone companies to keep the records secret. Which law enforcement agency made this request? Were they cooperating with Congress?

“If none, then Barr needs to look at Congress and the phone carriers roles’ in illegally transferring phone records. Civil libertarians’ darkest fears are coming to light with the revelation that Schiff either alone or in collusion with others engaged in warrantless surveillance and was able obtain private records outside of the statutory protections written by Congress. It is incumbent upon the Department of Justice to rapidly get to the bottom of this blatant abuse of power.”

Attachments:

Pelosi and Schiff conduct warrantless surveillance on Nunes, Solomon, Sekulow and Giuliani, By Robert Romano, Dec. 5, 2019 at http://dailytorch.com/2019/12/pelosi-and-schiff-conduct-warrantless-surveillance-on-devin-nunes-john-solomon-jay-sekulow-and-rudy-giuliani/

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Dec. 4, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising President Donald Trump’s reforms of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program:

“Today’s Trump administration announcement that the SNAP system will conform with statutory requirements that single, work capable people with no dependents between the ages of 18 and 49 are required to work in order to qualify for benefits. Our nation is fortunate to have an abundance of jobs and record employment, which virtually assures those who seek a job can find a job. The current economy has moved 6.3 million off of the food stamp rolls since Jan. 2017, which is great news. However, the food stamps program was never intended to be used for permanent dependency by able-bodied young people with no dependents, and the Trump administration actions will help launch those who have fallen into the trap of government dependency.”

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