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- China Buys Our Debt, We Give Them Renewable Energy Stimulus Jobs...Seems About Right
- ATR Urges Governor McDonnell to Sign Bill to Abolish State Run Tax Preparation
- Saving the Sea Turtles...But at What Cost? (PRA Site »)
- Craig Miller Signs Taxpayer Protection Pledge in FL-24
- Next Week is Sunshine Week! (CFA Site »)
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- Obamacare, Free Trade, & Our Economic Prosperity
Friday, March 12, 2010
- Rusty Bowers Signs the Taxpayer Protection Pledge for AZ-01 Race
- Ask Your Virginia Legislator to Vote "NO" on Any Budget Containing Higher Taxes
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ATR Supports H.R. 4781, the
"Keeping American Businesses
Competitive Act of 2010" - Stimulus Dollars Are Taking You for A Ride - On Greyhound Buses (CFA Site »)
- Ronald Reagan Legacy Project Urges Naming of California High School After Reagan
- Democrats Attempt to Subvert Congress in Hopes of Carbon Regulation
- Economic Issues Dominate at the Bloggers Briefing
- Pushback Against EPA’s Attempts to Regulate Carbon Emissions Grows
- Minnesota Gubernatorial Candidate Running on a Platform of Tax Hikes
Thursday, March 11, 2010
- Michigan Jobs Ain't What They Used To Be...Unless You Work For The Government
- ATR and CFA Support Earmark Moratorium
- CFA Supports Earmark Moratorium (CFA Site »)
- Voter Fraud in the Name of Tax Hikes
- Ballooning Deficits in Greece Foreshadowing Future for the U.S.? (ASA Site »)
- Green Jobs FAIL
- The Evergreen Tax and Fee Spree
- Pelosi: "But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it" (CFA Site »)
- ATR Staffer Testifies Before U.S. House Energy & Commerce Select Committee
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
- The endemic rot in government run health care
- The Debt Panel's 800-lb. Gorilla: Why Andy Stern Stands Out
- The Left Agree: Obamacare Ushers In Their Radical Ideological Agenda
- We Ought Focus On Cutting Taxes & Spending, Not Deficits
- The Debt Panel's 800-lb. Gorilla (AWF Site »)
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Does the Obamacare Investment Surtax
Apply to Capital Gains? - ATR Urges Opposition to Sen. Isakson Pension Bailout
- Taxpayers to Legislators: Clean Virginia Budget of Taxes
- ATR Supports the Georgia JOBS Act
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
- ATR Urges Utah Governor Herbert to Veto Tax Increase
- More on the VAT
- Public Sector Jobs
- How 550,000 jobs were destroyed by the minimum wage hike
- How Obamacare Will Hurt Poor Women & Children Most
- Federal Workers Make $11,000 More Than Private Sector Workers, and There’s More of Them (AWF Site »)
Monday, March 8, 2010
- Legislation Introduced to Put Ronald Reagan on the $50 Bill
- Pledge Signer Wins Illinois Republican Gubernatorial Primary
- "Net Neutrality" To Kill Jobs
- NY Supreme Court Votes to Evict Residents and Close Businesses (PRA Site »)
- California US Senate Candidates Square Off in First Debate
Friday, March 5, 2010
- ATR and CFA Support the Spending Limit Amendment
- Utah Representative Breaks Tax Pledge
- AWF Will Rate Vote on House Jobs Bill (AWF Site »)
- Energy Tax Hike Series: Use it or Lose it Tax
Thursday, March 4, 2010
- The reliability of spending "estimates"
- Utah State Senator Tries to Sweeten Tax Hike with Pork
- Obama Administration Makes Attempt to Seize Millions of Acres Across America (PRA Site »)
- More "Stimulus" Boondoggles - Social Engineering and Lobbying for Higher Taxes
- Energy Tax Hike Series: Raises Taxes on Tertiary Injectants
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
- Is This Reality or a Science Fiction Dystopia?
- Andy Stern Update: US Attorney Reviewing Case & Obama Appoints Stern to Debt Panel
- Texans: Do You Know Which Candidates Have Signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge?
- AWF Asks White House to Take Position on Andy Stern Investigation After Appointment to Debt Panel (AWF Site »)
- AWF Continues Andy Stern Investigation (AWF Site »)
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
- Energy Tax Hike Series: Superfund Tax Reinstated
Monday, March 1, 2010
- Rick Berg First Pledge Signer in North Dakota Congressional Race
Friday, February 26, 2010
Senate Cap-and-Trade Hearing: Day One
From Brian M Johnson on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 5:24 PM
Today, the US Senate began the first of a three-day hearing on S. 1733, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act also known as the Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade bill.
The hearings can be watched on C-SPAN3.
This is nothing more than a national energy tax that will kill 2.5 million American jobs by 2030. For more on how cap-and-trade will affect our economy, click here. Senator Inhofe (R-OK) had a great opening statement which you can read here. The witnesses and the schedule for the remaining hearings are found here.
Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform submitted testimony for today's hearing highlighting how this bill is a $3.6 trillion gas tax.
Secretary of Energy Chu is already being criticized for using "befuddled economics" in his testimony at today's hearing.
As this bill is very long and detailed, ATR has provided a summary of the allowances and the agressive emission's goals. Also, our friends at the Heritage Foundation (h/t David Green), have added page numbers to the Table of Contents of the actual bill. Funny, you would think this is something Congress would have thought of?!?
It is important that the Majority members of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Senate Committee conducting this hearing hear from you! If you live in the state listed below, please call your Senator and tell them you oppose this tax increasing, job killing bill - S. 1733, the Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade bill! (Please do not call if you are not a resident of the state listed below, they will not record your call)
| CALIFORNIA | Barbara Boxer | (202) 224-3553 |
| MONTANA | Max Baucus | (202) 224-2651 |
| DELEWARE | Thomas R. Carper | (202) 224-2441 |
| NEW JERSEY | Frank R. Lautenberg | (202) 224-3224 |
| MARYLAND | Benjamin L. Cardin | (202) 224-4524 |
| VERMONT | Bernard Sanders | (202) 224-5141 |
| MINNESOTA | Amy Klobuchar | (202) 224-3244 |
| RHODE ISLAND | Sheldon Whitehouse | (202) 224-2921 |
| NEW MEXICO | Tom Udall | (202) 224-6621 |
| OREGON | Jeff Merkley | (202) 224-3753 |
| NEW YORK | Kirsten Gillibrand | (202) 224-4451 |
| PENNSYLVANIA | Arlen Specter | (202) 224-4254 |
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