Sept. 4, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning issued the following statement upon delivering the key document central to the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Constitution:

“Judge Kavanaugh has vowed to uphold the Constitution, so perhaps it is time for the Senate to review that for a change. The Constitution is the only document that matters when it comes to the confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh, and his adherence to the meaning and intent of the nation’s governing document.”

To view online: https://getliberty.org/2018/09/alg-delivers-key-document-to-senate-judiciary-committee-the-constitution/

Attachments:

U.S. Constitution, 1787 at https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript

ALG delivers Constitution to Senate Judiciary Committee members, Sept. 4, 2018 at https://twitter.com/LimitGovt/status/1037008479549046784 and https://twitter.com/LimitGovt/status/1037008604841291776

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Aug. 29, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to the latest GDP numbers:

“The second quarter of 2018 was even better than initially thought by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, with an upward revision to 4.2 percent inflation-adjusted GDP growth. It is clear that the Trump trade, tax and deregulation doctrine is unleashing the pent-up economic potential in our economy. When combined with third quarter trade announcements with the European Union and now Mexico, the Trump economy is just beginning to take off. That is great news for all Americans.”

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Aug. 27, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising President Trump for reaching a new trade accord with Mexico:

“Former President Obama already attempted to renegotiate the trade relationship with Mexico and Canada when he failed at the Trans Pacific Partnership, which included those two countries. What was missing with any trade deal with Mexico was a commitment to America’s economic interests. President Trump’s determination to restore the U.S. manufacturing sector should give assurance to the American people that a new trade agreement with Mexico will provide better economic terms for U.S. workers, and hopefully end that giant sucking that Ross Perot correctly predicted.”

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Aug. 24, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to a report by the Wall Street Journal that former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen applied for reimbursements, not from the Trump campaign, but from the Trump Organization for the non-disclosure legal settlements in 2016:

“If Michael Cohen now believes he thought non-disclosure agreement payments to porn stars in 2016 were campaign contributions to ‘influence the election,’ then why did he go to Trump Organization and not the Trump campaign to be reimbursed? The fact is every American has a right under the Constitution to retain legal counsel to enter into just these sorts of legal settlements, and Congress cannot preempt those rights via legislation if it wanted to. The fact that federal prosecutors in New York would go ahead and create a crime out of nothing is just one more example of prosecutorial misconduct that has characterized this Justice Department.”

Attachments:

“Last year, Mr. Weisselberg arranged for the Trump Organization to reimburse Mr. Cohen, who had in October 2016 made a $130,000 payment to Stephanie Clifford, a former adult-film actress who claimed she had sex with Mr. Trump a decade earlier, in exchange for her silence about the alleged affair. A person familiar with Mr. Weisselberg’s thinking said he didn’t know that money was intended to pay Ms. Clifford, who goes professionally by Stormy Daniels, when he agreed in January 2017 to a $35,000 monthly retainer for Mr. Cohen. That month, according to charging documents filed Tuesday, Mr. Cohen gave executives at the Trump Organization a copy of the bank statement from his bank account for Essential Consultants LLC, the company he used to pay Ms. Clifford the previous fall. The statement reflected Mr. Cohen’s $130,000 payment to Ms. Clifford, as well as an additional $50,000 that Mr. Cohen added in handwriting was for ‘tech services.’ Executives at the Trump Organization ‘ ‘grossed up’ for tax purposes’ Mr. Cohen’s requested reimbursement, doubling it to $360,000, and added a $60,000 bonus, the document said. The next month, one executive at the company asked another executive to pay Mr. Cohen’s monthly retainer ‘from the trust’ and to ‘post to legal expenses.’” Wall Street Journal, Aug. 24, 2018 at https://www.wsj.com/articles/allen-weisselberg-longtime-trump-organization-cfo-is-granted-immunity-by-federal-prosecutors-in-michael-cohen-investigation-1535121992

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Aug. 22, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging Attorney General Jeff Sessions to appoint a second special counsel:

“In the past, Americans for Limited Government has opposed the idea of a separate special counsel to investigate probable illegal actions within the Department of Justice, CIA, FBI and State Department related to the effort to elect Hillary Clinton to the presidency of the United States and after the election to oust President Donald Trump.

“Today, it is clear that internal Justice Department investigations are insufficient, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions should immediately appoint a special counsel to rifle through the lives and careers of every key associate of the Clinton and Obama families to determine if they have ever engaged in illegal activity.  Former Clinton attorney Lanny Davis and other Clinton fixers should also be subjected to full investigation including the collection of all communications with the Clintons over the years to determine how often payouts had been made to quell potentially embarrassing stories from reaching the media.

“If America is ever going to get beyond the one-sided and unending Mueller investigations, then it is important that there be equal justice under the law by at the very least putting those who originated, paid for, leaked and used the fabricated Christopher Steele dossier to focused, intensive legal scrutiny.

“In the past, I have advocated patience with the Department of Justice as they pursue this matter through regular legal channels. They are out of time.  America needs to know that there is equal justice under the law, and there is no reason to have any confidence that the Justice Department has the capacity or willingness to investigate itself and other agencies implicated through this scandal. It is time for a special counsel to focus on the Clinton and Obama side of the ledger where we know criminal activity occurred, in order to restore America’s faith that our justice system does not just go one way.”

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Aug. 21, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement responding to the Paul Manafort verdict:

“Paul Manafort may have been guilty of crimes ten years ago, but the one thing he was not found guilty of was conspiring with Russia on the hack of the DNC and Podesta emails during the 2016 election, the only justification for the Special Counsel investigation. There was no collusion. Now that this trial is over, it is time for Mueller to wrap up his investigation and turn his findings over to the Justice Department.”

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Aug. 20, 2018, Fairfax, Va.–Today, Americans for Limited Government Foundation released a study entitled, “Solar Power Harms Taxpayers and Consumers and Endangers the Reliability of the Grid.” The study points out the problems with solar energy from taxpayer-funded subsidies and increased costs for utility customers to grid reliability concerns.

Solar energy receives heavy federal subsidies that are far more generous than the subsidies for natural gas, coal, or even wind. In addition to federal support, states have also enacted policies to prop up solar power. State renewable energy mandates have encouraged the generation of solar energy. In dozens of states, utility companies are forced to compensate solar panel owners for the excess electricity that they supply to the grid. Those programs are funded by other utility customers.

But in the rush to increase solar power generation, some of the disadvantages of solar power are being overlooked. The intermittency of solar power is a particular problem. This intermittency necessitates the availability of ample backup power plants to ramp up when clouds obscure the sun. Solar power’s intermittency also complicates the job of grid operators to keep the grid adequately supplied with electricity.

The money spent on solar subsidies and new solar plants would be better spent on maintaining and upgrading the creaky, aging grid. After all, huge portions of the grid are at or beyond their expected service life.

“The mandates and incentives to build solar plants and install solar panels have to stop. Taxpayers are being fleeced, working class consumers are subsidizing their wealthier neighbors’ solar panels, and the reliability of the grid is being threatened,” said Richard McCarty, Director of Research at Americans for Limited Government Foundation.

“The money being spent to build new solar power plants in remote locations, to connect them to the grid, and to maintain backup power plants would be much better spent on upgrading our aging grid,” said Richard Manning, President of Americans for Limited Government.

Attachments:

“Solar Power Harms Taxpayers and Consumers and Endangers the Reliability of the Grid,” By Richard McCarty, August 17, 2018 at http://algresearch.org/2018/08/solar-power-harms-taxpayers-and-consumers-and-endangers-the-reliability-of-the-grid/

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Aug. 20, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to former CIA Director John Brennan’s statement that he would appeal his security clearance revocation: “I am going to do whatever I can personally to try to prevent these abuses in the future, and if it means going to court, I will do that”:

“Former CIA Director John Brennan violated the basic code of conduct through his public accusations that the President engaging in diplomacy overseas with Russia was ‘nothing short of treasonous.’ It is clear that Brennan is no longer suited to be trusted with the secrets of the United States, and President Trump was well within his constitutional authority to revoke Brennan’s security clearance.”

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