AFP-Arkansas Thanks Senators Pryor and Lincoln for Voting to Stop EPA Power Grab

For Immediate Release – June 10, 2010
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Americans for Prosperity – Arkansas Thanks Senators Pryor and Lincoln for Voting to Stop EPA Power Grab


Little Rock, AR – Americans for Prosperity - Arkansas thanks Sen. Lincoln (D-AR) and Sen. Pryor (D-AR) for voting to stop the EPA global warming-based power grab.

“Arkansans truly appreciate Senators Lincoln and Pryor for putting us before the power hungry EPA,” said AFP-Arkansas State Director Teresa Oelke. “It’s just too bad other senators did not have Americans’ best interests in mind in this disastrous vote.”

“This attempt to further the Cap-n-Tax scheme has already been rejected by the people of Arkansas once; however the EPA and the White House have other plans," furthered Oelke. "These plans could cost 40,000 jobs here at home and sky rocketing energy costs.”

Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity, said:
“Unfortunately there were not enough heroes in the U.S. Senate willing to stand up to the Obama EPA. The Senate has voted to allow the EPA to simply rewrite the law to suit the administration’s purposes.

“The Obama administration can now continue pursuing an extreme global warming agenda, sending our energy prices skyrocketing and gaining sweeping regulatory control over the United States economy – without passing legislation in Congress.

“Every senator who voted NO voted to look the other way, to outsource legislative responsibility to the EPA, and allow that agency to run roughshod over American families and workers.
“We salute the heroes who voted to stop this outrageous EPA power grab, and we look forward to a future Congress that will be more willing and able stop the EPA.”
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