Oct. 19, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Research Foundation President Rick Manning today issued the following statement after joining an amicus curiae brief in SEC v. Jarkesy:

“Americans for Limited Government Research Foundation is proud to join Advancing American Freedom  and many others in filing an amicus brief on SEC v. Jarkesy.  The administrative state has too often become prosecutor, judge and jury in determining the guilt or innocence of those accused of violating regulations.  The Constitutional separation of powers was created to provide checks against this consolidation of power.  Mr. Jarkesy has been abused by a system devised under the guise of expertise, but which is really nothing more than a consolidation of power within the executive branch which does not extend guaranteed legal protections to the accused.  It is time for the Supreme Court to end this fixed, quasi-legal system.”

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Oct. 16, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging House Republicans to support House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) for House Speaker:

“It is time for all House Republicans to come together and choose a Speaker. Jim Jordan, the House Republican conference nominee for Speaker, has laid a pathway forward which restores power to committees and promises a return to regular order. Chairman Jordan has worked tirelessly on his Judiciary and Government Oversight and Accountability assignments, and proved to be one of former Speaker McCarthy’s most important and outspoken allies, keeping his word. Americans for Limited Government urges members elected as Republicans to preserve the GOP Majority mandate given by 54.5 million voters in 2022 by voting for Jim Jordan for Speaker.”

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Oct. 10, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement supporting U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to be the next Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives:

“U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan is uniquely qualified to be Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Americans for Limited Government is proud to endorse him. Jordan is a staunch defender of the Constitution and individual liberties, and has a proven ability to work with all members of the Republican conference on critical issues like censorship, surveillance and the weaponization of government, and the overall abuse of power of the executive branch. This is not a conservative versus liberal fight, it is a fight for the future of America, and whether the House will be an effective check against President Biden. It is essential that the next Speaker have a deep understanding of how the executive branch has grown into a political enforcement arm in order to be able to use the Article One powers to legislate and the power of the purse to deconstruct the administrative state. There are a number of quality candidates, but Jim Jordan stands alone in the ability to create a laser focus on the three issues that should bring Republicans together: Biden, the budget and the border.”

To view online: https://getliberty.org/2023/10/alg-supports-jim-jordan-for-speaker/

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Sept. 28, Fairfax, Va.–Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in favor of Amendment #73 to H.R. 4873  by U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.):

“Americans for Limited Government supports Amendment #73 to prohibit funds executing Presidential Proclamation 10606 that created a national monument prohibiting mineral extraction on almost a million acres in Arizona, including potential rare earth deposits. At a time when China dominates global rare earth production, America’s national security depends upon an expansion of domestic mineral production in the U.S., not reducing it. Representative Gosar’s Amendment 73 wisely stops the Biden administration from further strangling mineral resource extraction impacting a million acres of Arizona land.  The Biden administration may not care about protecting America from Chinese dominance of rare earth and other minerals, but Congress must stop this administration’s attempted resource development surrender to the Chinese by voting in favor of Amendment 73 to H.R. 4873 Department of Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024.”

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Sept. 25, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Richard Manning today issued the following statement in response to GOP presidential candidate South Carolina Senator Tim Scott is being sued by the United Auto Workers for repeating President Ronald Reagan’s actions in dealing with the federal air traffic controllers strike:

“The new leadership of the UAW appears to be more interested in internet clicks than in the welfare of their own membership. Apparently, they are not content to take on the Big Three automakers in an unprecedented industry-wide strike, they also want to take on the legacy of Ronald Reagan who fired federal employees who walked off their jobs illegally, endangering both the American flying public and the national economy.  Senator Scott’s response was clearly aimed at federal employees who are ineligible to strike when he said, ‘I think Ronald Reagan gave us a great example when federal employees decided they were going to strike,’ he said, adding ,’you strike, you’re fired. Simple concept to me to the extent that we can use that once again.’

“If the UAW leadership cannot discern that a Senator, commenting on U.S. employment law that has nothing to do with the private sector, is not only appropriate but necessary, then they have no business being employed by, let alone running a union. It is likely that Senator Scott has caught their ire due to the growing number of non-union autoworkers in South Carolina which the membership starved UAW desperately seeks to attract. Since their heyday in the 1970s, UAW membership has shrunk from 1.5 million to around 400,000 and the new leadership’s desperation for relevance in right to work states is more and more evident as they attempt a Hail Mary negotiation which will only decrease auto production in pro-union states over time.  Rather than pretend it is the 1950s and he is powerful UAW head Walter Reuther, the newly elected auto union head should focus on fighting against the Biden climate driven electric car push which will doom a significant portion of the automaking workforce.

“Instead, the UAW puts out a stupid, self-serving National Labor Relations Board claim designed to get a headline in the Greenville, South Carolina press in the hopes of gaining traction for their moribund unionization push.”

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Sept. 7, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) for offering legislation that prohibits Covid mask mandates on federal transit:

“Sen. J.D. Vance has forced a vote in the Senate on legislation prohibiting mask mandates on federal transportation. Unfortunately, Democrat Sen. Ed Markey objected to passing the mask prohibition by unanimous consent, confirming suspicions that the Biden administration is considering a return to its tyrannical, unscientific mandates of 2021. The Vance anti-mandate, pro-freedom legislation is a first step to stop future abuses of executive branch power at the expense of the American people’s liberties.

“Over the course of the past two years Americans for Limited Government has sent millions of emails to Congress, Governors and state legislatures opposing mask mandates, vaccine mandates, economic lockdowns and school closures that had devastating consequences on the economy and the American people including children. Sen. Vance was elected in 2022 having lived under the burden of the Covid mandates as a private citizen, and it is refreshing that he is pushing forward to restore Americans’ freedom from federal government’s unconstitutional dictates. One of the British rock band The Who’s anthems is we won’t be fooled again. The American people will not comply, and Congress needs to assert its power to assure that they never have to.”

Attachments:

Freedom to Breathe Act, by Sen. J.D. Vance, https://www.vance.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ERN23A3322.pdf

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Aug. 29, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to President Joe Biden’s so-called Medicare Price Negotiation:

“Joe Biden is trying to take control of senior’s relationship with their doctors by picking winners and losers on medicines.   The Biden administration says it is beginning a ‘negotiation’ with the manufacturers of ten medicines over what Medicare will pay for them, but it’s not a negotiation when the federal government gives you a directive. Try negotiation with the Internal Revenue Service on paying less taxes. Make no mistake, Biden’s government is giving these companies a federal directive and setting a price. The result of these directives will be a not so subtle shift away from doctors prescribing medicines which best treat their individual patients to their being pressured to prescribe other lower cost, but less effective drugs.

“This is not conjecture, it is exactly what happens with Medicaid patients in almost every state in America.  States create drug formularies based upon similar ‘negotiations’ and doctors are in many cases dictated to prescribe lower cost drugs which in many cases have already failed that patient.

“Now Biden is putting into place this exact kind of system for Medicare recipients.  A system which prescribes based upon cost to the Medicare system rather than the needs of patients.  Like every cancer, it is starting as a little noticed bureaucratic action where federal employees who go home at 4 pm every day and only work every other Friday will effectively dictate to the companies which invent the medicines what can be charged.

“Anyone who thinks this is going to end up going well for the patients who depend upon getting the right medicine when they need it simply hasn’t been paying attention to the political abuse of the medical system over the past three years.

“No one can legitimately argue against seeking cost savings in the Medicare system, but here is what the deliberately misnamed Inflation Reduction Act actually allows to happen with any savings resulting from these ‘negotiations.’

“They don’t go to making the Medicare system solvent.  No, instead, savings are diverted away from Medicare solvency and toward green energy projects.

“That’s right. While Medicare teeters on the brink of fiscal disaster, the savings will be going to buy Chinese windmills, solar panels and electric car batteries.

“In Biden’s America Last world, it might make sense to dictate what prescription a doctor should write for their patient in order to fund a green energy future which puts the Chinese in control of the world’s energy production.

“I guess it may be time for Americans for Limited Government to start bidding on some of Hunter’s art work as a last ditch effort to try to slow the Biden administration led planned decline of our nation.”

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Aug. 10, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and the Senate let the U.S. House of Representatives to do its job and complete its impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden, in response to McConnell’s statement to the New York Times that “Impeachment ought to be rare… This is not good for the country.”:

“Impeachment is a terrible thing as it should be a last resort. House Democrats abused this Constitutional remedy to presidential corruption twice during the Trump administration in a blatant political weaponization of what was once a solemn process.

“The sin by the Pelosi House’s choice to impeach a man who they could not defeat politically cannot be used as an excuse for Congress to not do their job when dealing with proven abuse of power and blatant pay for play corruption by the current occupant of the White House.  Joe Biden doesn’t get a constitutional get out of jail card because House Democrats acted badly.  What matters is whether Joe Biden is fit to serve as President, and the proof is that he is not.

“The House Oversight Committee has proven that Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, was being paid one million a year by a Ukrainian natural gas company that had legal problems in Ukraine.  It has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt that Hunter Biden and executives of that company, Burisma, called then-Vice President Joe Biden urging him to end the pressure on their company from a Ukrainian prosecutor.  It is public record with a grainy YouTube video as the receipt that four days after the frantic call, Vice President Joe Biden spoke to the Ukrainian legislature decrying corruption in the country with a special focus on the prosecutor’s office.  And it is incontrovertible that after leaving government with little expectation to be on the ballot again, Joe Biden bragged in a Council on Foreign Relations speech about withholding $1 billion of loan guarantees from Ukraine unless they fired the prosecutor.

“This is just one instance of the Joe Biden legacy of corruption which extends from Kiev to Moscow to Romania to Beijing.  And this doesn’t even mention his Justice Department’s fervent pursuit of Donald Trump in an effort to disqualify the former President and overwhelming frontrunner for the GOP nomination from election. Seems to me that the key claim in the Pelosi Ukrainian impeachment of Trump was that he asked the President of Ukraine to look into the very Biden corruption which the House Oversight Committee has uncovered.  Trump got impeached for seeking the truth.  Now Biden must be impeached because the truth is that Joe Biden heads a family criminal enterprise where he is the brand and his influence is what is for sale.

“Americans for Limited Government has created a means for Americans to let Congress know that they expect Joe Biden to be impeached.  No more excuses, the Biden Crime Family has been exposed and it is Congress’ constitutional responsibility to use the impeachment process to remove someone who can credibly be questioned about his motives in foreign policy decisions due to his past personal corrupt and illegal enrichment.”

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July 20, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging members of the House and Senate to cosponsor the Free Speech Protection Act by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio):

“Senator Rand Paul and Representative Jim Jordan have introduced the most important civil liberties protection legislation in at least a decade.  The Free Speech Protection Act ends the practice of federal government officials, agencies and their contractors of communicating with media and social media platforms to censor speech.  What’s more, it provides the ability of those whose speech is censored to take legal action against those government officials who were responsible for the censorship.

“This is why Americans for Limited Government is urging every Member of Congress to cosponsor the Free Speech Protection Act.  Every American should agree that the right to dissent, which is at the heart of the First Amendment freedom of speech and assembly clauses, is part of the DNA of the American political experience.  Every Member of Congress should be appalled by the abuses of power and work to assure that future administrations cannot do the same to their political opposition.”

Attachments:

Letter to Congress in favor of the Free Speech Protection Act, July 20, 2023 at https://getliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Letter-Free-Speech-Protection-Act-7-20-23.pdf

Urge Congress To End Unconstitutional Censorship! https://limitgov.salsalabs.org/urge-congress-end-unconstitutional-censorship/index.html

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July 20, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging the U.S. House of Representatives to vote in favor of an amendment to the FAA legislation by U.S. Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) that would protect the existing market for premium tail fin numbers by striking Section 206 and 207 from the bill:

“One man saw a need for a market for higher value airplane tail numbers.  He met that need, investing his money to legally purchase airplane tail numbers that he believed would be desirable, and now provides a way for aircraft owners to have access to these premium numbers.  Those who don’t want to use his service have almost half a million other number and letter combinations to choose from for just $10 each.  This is American entrepreneurial spirit at work and a perfect example of supply and demand. Vote yes on the Perry Boebert amendment number.

“There is no legitimate reason to change the law.  I know this is a little thing, affecting a couple of entrepreneurs and a few aircraft owners, but if you are going to stand for limited government, then you can’t stand for ending an honest market-based business just because you can.”

Attachments:

FAA Bill Stomps Free Market Tail Number System & Common Sense, July 19, 2023, By Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning at https://dailytorch.com/2023/07/faa-bill-stomps-free-market-tail-number-system-common-sense/

Letter to House and Senate against Sections 206 and 207 of FAA reauthorization, July 14, 2023, Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning: https://getliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Reject-Sec-206-207-House-FAA-Letter-7-14-23.pdf

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