U.S. Senate Rejects Blocking EPA Power Grab; Senator Landrieu bucks party leadership to protect Louisiana jobs

Wednesday, April 6th 2011
by Jacob Luneau
in Energy, EPA

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BATON ROUGE- Today, the Senate voted on stopping the EPA’s global warming power grab. Unfortunately, in a 50-50 vote the Senate failed to reach the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster thus allowing the EPA to move forward with regulating greenhouse gases on its own – against the clear wishes of voters and without any legitimate legislative basis.

The good news is that in their votes today, Louisiana Senators Mary Landrieu and David Vitter have said that the EPA should not be twisting the 1970 Clean Air Act into a vehicle for undemocratically pursuing job killing global warming regulations.

Senator Landrieu was just one of four Democrats to vote for the McConnell amendment.

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More than 22,000 Grassroots Activists Reject So-Called ‘Open Internet’ Regulation

Thursday, January 14th 2010
by jtuch

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Americans for Prosperity leads effort to make the voices of regular Americans heard at the FCC

Americans for Prosperity announced a stunning public comment campaign that resulted in more than 22,000 comments from regular Americans opposed to new regulations in the name of "net neutrality" or an "open Internet."

AFP Vice President for Policy Phil Kerpen issued the following statement:

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AFP Applauds Senator Vitter

Monday, June 8th 2009
by James Valvo
in Taxes, Energy

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-Signs No Climate Tax Pledge-

WASHINGTON-The free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today applauded U.S. Senator David Vitter for signing the group’s “No Climate Tax Pledge.” By doing so, Vitter joins over 190 lawmakers on the federal, state and local levels pledging to “oppose legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in government revenue.”

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