Nov. 18, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement supporting the confirmation of Dan Brouillette as Secretary of the Department of Energy:

“The past three years under President Donald Trump and Energy Secretary Rick Perry moved the U.S. closer to energy independence than it has ever been, and those policies of expanding U.S. capacity, particularly in the realm of natural gas, will continue under the tenure of Dan Brouillette as Energy Secretary. As Perry’s deputy, Brouillette has authorized more than 38 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas exports, which one day will open the U.S. to supply more than three-quarters of European natural gas demand, or about 13 percent of global demand. Not only is U.S. energy independence supporting the American people, but it also protects U.S. allies who cannot be held hostage for want of natural gas. We’re now among the world’s top producers of oil and natural gas, and nobody is more qualified than Dan Brouillette to continue implementing the Trump energy dominance plan.”

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Nov. 15, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch’s complaint that she was “intimidated” by a tweet from President Donald Trump:

“Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified that she was ‘intimidated’ by a tweet by President Donald Trump. Now let me get this straight: A U.S. Ambassador assigned to one of the most dangerous, corrupt locations in the world, where the U.S. and Russia fight a proxy civil war, cowers in the fear of 142 characters presidential missive. This very fact is why Yovanovitch should not be ambassador to Ukraine or anywhere else as she apparently does not have the temperament for the job.”

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Nov. 13, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs George Kent admission that Ukraine had a corruption problem and that Burisma Holdings, the natural gas firm, President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky discussed investigating on July 25, needed to be investigated:

“Ambassador George Kent supported the investigation of corruption of the Ukraine natural gas firm Burisma as early as July 23, 2015, due to what he described as ‘self-dealing and self-enrichment’ by the Ukrainian oligarch who ran the company testifying,  ‘I think that since the U.S. taxpayer dollars were wasted, I would love to see the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office find who … the corrupt prosecutor was, that took the bribe, and how much it was paid…’

“President Donald Trump in his conversation on July 25 with the current President of Ukraine agrees that Burisma’s corruption should be investigated.  Yet this is the purported reason why House Democrats wish to impeach him?  What a farce.”

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Nov. 13, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to former U.S. acting ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor’s testimony that “I don’t know what President or candidate Trump was thinking about the Ukrainians”:

“Former Ambassador Bill Taylor was the Democrats’ star witness, and here is the only thing he said which is instructive in terms of his knowledge about President Trump and the government of Ukraine, stating, ‘I don’t know what President or candidate Trump was thinking about the Ukrainians.’ With that Bill Taylor should just sit down and be quiet, since he and every other interested person in the entire world knows exactly what  President Trump said to Ukraine President Zelensky during their phone call on July 25.

“Any other congressional leadership in history would shut down their impeachment dreams if their star witness admitted that they had no knowledge on the subject they were called to testify.  But for House Intelligence (an oxymoron if I ever wrote one) Chairman Adam Schiff, Taylor’s testimony is about strike seven in his almost three year quest to impeach the President. The people of Glendale, California should be hiding in embarrassment for subjecting the rest of America to Mr. Schiff, whose main voter appeal may be a basic desire to send him 3,000 away from home to get him out of town.”

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Nov. 13, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to end secret science in regulation by requiring publicly available data in any rulemaking:

“We welcome reports that the EPA is finally moving to advance its long-stalled proposal to ensure that only high-quality, reliable and, most important, transparent scientific research and evidence is used by the agency to design and promulgate regulations. But we hope that action will not end there and urge the President to extend the principles of the proposed regulation to all departments and agencies of government through an Executive Order.

“It is critical to ensuring the accountability of the regulatory process that all data used by government in designing regulations be publicly available for review, demonstrated to be reproducible and preferably, peer-reviewed. The days of using “secret science” to support regulation of dubious quality and questionable benefit — and in some cases, harm to the public — must end.”

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Nov. 12, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to the new rules for the impeachment inquiry released by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) including “As explained in my November 9, 2019, response to the Ranking Member, it is important to underscore that the House’s impeachment inquiry, and the Committee, will not serve as venues for any Member to further the same sham investigations into the Bidens or into debunked conspiracies about 2016 U.S. election interference that President Trump pressed Ukraine to undertake for his personal political benefit. Nor will the Committee facilitate any efforts by President Trump or his allies to threaten, intimidate, or retaliate against the whistleblower who courageously and lawfully raised concerns about the President’s conduct…”:

“House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam ‘Torquemada’ Schiff laid down the rules for his impeachment witch hunt with a demand which Lewis Carroll may have delighted in writing.

“For those with the capacity to read critically, what Schiff is saying is that any attempt to actually examine what President Trump was actually talking about to Ukraine President Zelensky in July will not be allowed.  What’s more, any attempt to get to the bottom of the very Russiagate fraud, falsely accusing the President and his campaign of being Russian agents, which was perpetrated on the American public by Schiff and various intelligence agencies will not be allowed. In short, no defense will be allowed.

“One simple question for Schiff and Speaker Pelosi, if you aren’t going to actually allow an examination of what the President actually said to Zelensky, are you instead going to use Schiff’s fantasy conversation as the basis of your inquiry?  It is impossible to believe that any effort to contextualize the President’s comments would be dismissed or deemed out of order.

“However, we might have a better understanding of how former Special Counsel Robert Mueller could run a two year investigation based upon a ‘salacious and unverified’ dossier which everyone knew was false from even before Mueller was appointed.  It is outrageous that anyone would consider the Schiff hearings as having a shred of legitimacy given the strictures he has created in the Committee.”

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Nov. 11, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in support of the MERIT Act by U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) and Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.):

“The Veteran’s Administration can fire incompetent, lazy or recalcitrant employees due to 2017 reforms passed by Congress and signed by President Trump in the aftermath of a scandal where the VA health care system was letting veterans die on the streets rather than provide care.

“The result of changes in the laws governing VA personnel are clear as more than 8,000 VA employees have been fired, demoted or suspended since President Trump took office. The only question is why shouldn’t this same type of reform be enacted throughout the federal government?

“Congress is in the midst of passing another massive funding bill, and the language which has allowed for bad federal employees to be fired from the Veteran’s Administration should be included for all federal employees.  Known as the MERIT Act, legislation sponsored by Senator David Perdue and Representative Barry Loudermilk both of Georgia, would take the VA language and apply it to every federal agency.

“One of the dirty little secrets which give the administrative state so much power in Washington, D.C. is that it is virtually impossible to fire lazy, incompetent and recalcitrant employees, so taxpayers keep getting fleeced because of the civil service laws.

“Congress needs to fix this broken system and a simple, easy first step is to include the MERIT Act language into the Omnibus spending bill.”

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Nov. 8, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging action by President Donald Trump to correct military injustices on Veterans Day in three cases of severe sentencing of service members:

“President Trump is reportedly considering taking executive action to disapprove of severe military disciplinary action against a number of American servicemen who have been tried in military court for acting to defend themselves or their fellow warriors in contrast to dangerous, politically correct rules of engagement.

“It is the sincere hope of Americans for Limited Government that the President will correct any injustices which have been done by taking action on Veterans Day to fully restore the rights and privileges of those American military men who have been wrongly convicted.  It is a travesty when anyone is unjustly tried and convicted, but it is significantly worse when the victim is someone who voluntarily puts themselves in harm’s way to protect the very freedoms which they have been denied.

“President Trump examining and acting upon the cases mentioned in the November 5, 2019 letter from Representatives Louie Gohmert and Duncan Hunter, Jr. of the Congressional Warriors Caucus on Veterans Day would send a clear message to those who are defending our nation that they will not become victims of a politically correct system which put the lives of them and their colleagues at undue risk.”

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Nov. 6, 2019, Fairfax, Va.–Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising President Donald Trump and the Republican Senate for confirming 158 federal judges since Jan. 2017:

“President Trump’s commitment to restoring the rule of law and constitutional originalists to the federal bench is having a profound and lasting impact on America. While the nation typically focuses on Supreme Court nominees, and these are obviously very important, appeals court and district court federal judges play a fundamental role in ensuring that the judiciary does not become an overriding legislative branch. President Trump in his White House remarks decried the current practice by politically weaponized liberal jurists to put their own political beliefs ahead of the law. As Antonin Scalia once said, if judges want to make law, they should run for Congress.

“The President took particular care to praise the work of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairmen Lindsey Graham and Chuck Grassley in leading the fight to confirm a record number of jurists. The judiciary is the one branch of government that supersedes elected terms of office, designed to ensure a continuity of a constitutional rule of law that withstands political manipulation. One of President Trump’s legacies when he leaves office in January of 2025 will be his transformation of the judicial branch away from those who would make up the law as they go along and in favor of those who seek fair, balanced and equal justice under the law.”

Attachments:

“President Trump reaches 157 judges appointed, thanks to GOP Senate,” By Richard McCarty, Oct. 28, 2019 at http://dailytorch.com/2019/10/president-trump-reaches-157-judges-appointed-thanks-to-gop-senate/

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