Feb. 1, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response the FBI’s search of President Joe Biden’s Rehoboth, Del. beach house in connection with its missing classified documents case against Biden, according to CBS News’ Arden Farhi “the search was planned with Biden’s attorneys and consensual. No warrant was sought for this search…”:

“According to CBS News’ sources, President Joe Biden’s beach house in Rehoboth, Del. is being searched in connection to the FBI’s ongoing investigation against Biden of the missing classified documents, but without the use of any warrants and therefore no judicial oversight. In light of the FBI’s treatment of former President Donald Trump who lawfully held documents that he says he declassified in its August raid at Mar-a-lago, it is stunning they are proceeding without a search warrant which under the Fourth Amendment would require the FBI to tell a judge what they were hoping to find, protecting the rights of the accused and preventing a wholesale general warrant.

“Since day one of the discovery of the illegally held Biden classified documents, the FBI has allowed Biden attorneys the privilege to go through boxes without supervision, effectively neutering any real investigation. America watched almost a decade ago, became aware that Hillary Clinton smashed her cell phones and bleachbitted her computers to deny federal officials access to her unsecure email server.

“It should be remembered that the FBI similarly allowed Clinton’s attorneys to go through her emails to determine if there was classified information on her computer, only intervening after much of the evidence was tainted or destroyed. America has seen what the FBI does when they’re serious, with 6 a.m. raids on targets of investigations if they’re in the wrong political party and kid gloves for the Democrats who have apparently become the official party of the government.”

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Jan. 30, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging passage of H.J. Res. 7 and H.R. 382 to both the presidential and Department of Health and Human Services national Covid emergencies:

“This week, the House of Representatives will be voting on two pieces of legislation by U.S. Reps. Paul Gosar and Brett Guthrie to end the 2020 presidential declaration under the National Emergencies Act and by the Department of Health and Human Services for the Covid pandemic. The fact is, the virus is much less deadly than it was in 2020. When the pandemic began, estimated cases peaked in March 2020 at 157,000 per day, and then daily fatalities peaked by April 17 at 2,328 daily, about a 1.47 percent fatality rate, according to IHME. Today, fatalities in the U.S. reached about 645 daily deaths on Jan. 11, out of 1.7 million peak daily new cases from December, a 0.037 percent fatality rate.

“Americans for Limited Government praises House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and U.S. Reps. Paul Gosar and Brett Guthrie for offering legislation that will bring an end to the official Covid emergency, long after the actual emergency has passed. The pandemic is over, and it is time Congress said so.”

Attachments:

“It’s time to end the Covid national emergency, Mr. President.” By Robert Romano, Vice President of Public Policy, Americans for Limited Government, Jan. 6, 2023 at https://dailytorch.com/2023/01/its-time-to-end-the-covid-national-emergency-mr-president/

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Jan. 12, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement reacting to the appointment of another special counsel:

“America lived through an unending special counsel investigation in the prior administration due to the Russia collusion fantasy. Now there’s three. Given these repeated abuses of power at the Justice Department, it’s time that Congress revisit the legal and regulatory basis for these unaccountable prosecutors that undermine basic due process rights and confidence in our electoral system.

“One of the great mysteries of Merrick Garland’s appointment of a special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden’s possession and mishandling classified documents at his residence and Washington, D.C. think, from 2017 to 2021, after his time as Vice President, is why it wasn’t wrapped together with Trump’s own special counsel that was announced in November after Trump announced his bid to run for president in 2024. Six days prior to the Nov. 8 midterm elections, the FBI reports they discovered the first group of documents at the D.C. think tank, yet, the Department of Justice chose not to disclose this information prior to the election in November, the naming of Jack Smith as Special Counsel against Trump after the election and then the Georgia special runoff election for Senate. Clearly, the political weaponization of the Justice Department has become so normalized that every action appears to be taken through a political prism. This is the same Justice Department that continues to sit on and suppress the Hunter Biden laptop for the past two years.

“Now it is up to Congress to take a close look at whether these unending political investigations serve the nation.”

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Jan. 12, 2023, Fairfax, Va.–Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising the U.S. House of Representatives for passing a veto-proof bill to ban all sales of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China:

“The House of Representatives voted by a 331-97 margin for HR 22 to ban all sales of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China.

“HR 22 by Representative Cathy McMorris-Rogers (R-WA) simply states, ‘This bill prohibits the sale and export of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to China. Specifically, the bill prohibits the Department of Energy (DOE) from selling petroleum products (e.g., crude oil) from the SPR to any entity that is under the ownership, control, or influence of the Chinese Communist Party. Further, DOE must require as a condition of any sale of crude oil from the SPR that the oil not be exported to China.’”

“Incredibly, the Biden administration has been allowing Chinese Communist Party controlled companies to purchase the United States’ oil reserves that are designed for our nation’s national defense needs.  After the Biden team allowed the sale of SPR crude to a wholly owned subsidiary of China’s state owned oil company last year among other Chinese government purchasers, Speaker Kevin McCarthy has made it a priority to stop Biden from draining the tank and propping up China’s economy.

“It is truly sad that this legislation had to be passed by the House to prevent selling our oil to the Chinese government, but the broad bi-partisan support will hopefully carryover to Senate passage with a veto proof majority.  Americans for Limited Government praises this first step in holding the Chinese communist government accountable for their abuses of freedom both at home and around the world.”

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Speaker McCarthy’s first big test

Jan. 9, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement:

“This is Kevin McCarthy’s first real test as Speaker. McCarthy was elected Speaker based on the agreement he made with his conference for the rules governing the House. In many ways, these rules merely roll back changes by Nancy Pelosi that made the House autocratic and undemocratic. A simple example is the increased ability for members to offer amendments on the House floor, separate from leadership approval.

“Failure for any House GOP member to vote for Speaker McCarthy’s rules would undermine his capacity to perform his duties as Speaker of the House, and effectively disenfranchise 54 million Americans who voted for a Republicans. Americans for Limited Government strongly urges every member of the House Republican conference to vote in favor of the McCarthy-negotiated House rules package. Failure to vote for the McCarthy rules package would destroy McCarthy’s ability lead in the future—and he knows it.”

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Jan. 6, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising landmark agreement in the House Speaker election that fights fiscal insanity and constitutional abuses:

“The House rules agreed to by Kevin McCarthy will empower conservatives in the House to fight for limited government principles and fiscal sanity. The agreement to put a ‘Church-like Committee’ in the Judiciary Committee under Jim Jordan will help unravel the abuse of power by federal government intelligence agencies giving hope that these rabid dogs will be caged and shackled for a generation.  America stands at a precipice where our spending threatens our economic future and the wholesale attacks on the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments by the FBI and others threaten our personal liberties.

“Our nation owes a tremendous debt of gratitude to Representatives Chip Roy, Paul Gosar, Scott Perry, Byron Donalds, Josh Brecheen, Michael Cloud, Andrew Clyde, Anna Paulina Luna, Mary Miller, Ralph Norman, Andy Ogles, Dan Bishop, Andy Harris and Keith Self for fighting to end autocratic rule in the House of Representatives.

“I urge Representatives Andy Biggs, Lauren Boebert, Eli Crane, Matt Rosendale, Bob Good and Matt Gaetz to find a way forward to allow these hard fought wins to go into effect. The courage of all twenty of those who stood firm on the principle of restoring the House to its place as the People’s House and not just a rubber stamp for whatever the Senate decides is awe inspiring. It’s time to declare victory and begin the fight for liberty against those would cede it to the administrative state.”

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Dec. 21, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement reacting to Senate Republicans voting for the motion to proceed with the massive Omnibus spending package:

“Senate Republicans have one tool in their toolchest to stop the shambles that President Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are making of our country – the legislation appropriating spending for the upcoming year.  With the GOP taking control of the House of Representatives in 2023, precedent and common sense would have dictated allowing their fellow House Republicans to write an underlying spending bill with the power to use it to address immigration, criminal justice, education, foreign policy, health care and overall spending to be passed in the first quarter of 2023.

“But no, Senators Murkowski (R-AK), Shelby (R-AL) Tuberville (R-AL), Boozman (R-AR), Cotton (R-AR), Rubio (R-FL), Grassley (R-IA); Young (R-IN), Moran (R-KS), McConnell (R-KY), Collins (R-ME), Blunt (R-MO), Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Wicker (R-MS), Portman (R-OH), Graham (R-SC), Rounds (R-SD), Thune (R-SD), Cornyn (R-TX), Romney (R-UT), Capito (R-WV), all saw fit to take the power of the purse out of the hands of the newly elected GOP House and the voters who empowered them, and rubber stamped Biden’s agenda.

“Maybe the Omnibus that they voted to move forward with is the best that can be done given Democrat control of the Senate and Executive branch, but voting to allow it to become law is the equivalent of waving the white flag.

“Seeing what the McConnell-led Senate Republicans have chosen to do in the lame duck confirms the reason why conservative voters did not swarm the polls to give them power in 2023. If the GOP Senate won’t even stand up against the Biden regulatory and spending agenda, then when will they?”

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Dec. 20, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to U.S. Representative Dan Bishop (R-NC) tweet today that the omnibus spending bill which would fund federal government appropriations through September 30, 2023, “expressly prohibits CBP funding from being used to improve border security”:

“Any member of the U.S. House or Senate who votes for funding legislation which mandates to the Border Patrol that ‘none of the funds provided in subsection (a)(1) shall be used to acquire, maintain, or extend border security technology and capabilities, except for technology and capabilities to improve Border Patrol processing’ should be removed from office for dereliction of duty.  One of the few Constitutional jobs of the federal government is to secure our nation’s borders, and this current administration has made a mockery of that duty.  It is Congress’ job to demand through the funding bills that the law be upheld, and this provision is an outright surrender of our borders for another ten months.

“More than five million people have come across our border illegally since Joe Biden became president.  This is not a coincidence or a failure of policy, it is the plan.  Voting for the omnibus is a clear rubber stamp to this policy.  To those who claim that the alternative is shutting down the government, the obvious answer is that there is no harm in waiting until next year so that the new House Republican majority has an opportunity to review this provision. Besides, on the border, our government is already virtually shut down as our border patrol officers have been turned into little more than turnstile operators unable to protect our country from foreign invaders due to policies set by the Biden administration and rubber stamped by both political parties in D.C.

“Republicans and honest Democrats must reject the proposed Omnibus and pass a three month Continuing Resolution in its stead.”

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