ARLINGTON, Va. —The free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today tore the wrapping paper off the Kerry-Lieberman energy tax bill. Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) today released the American Power Act, a thinly veiled attempt to take energy austerity and so-called “green” energy subsidies and repackage them in a new way. Neither of the senators wants to admit what the bill is really about – allowing big government to wrest control of the nation’s energy – instead, they would prefer to talk about national security and “American power.”

Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips released the following statement:

WASHINGTON—The free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today commended U.S. Representatives Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) and Jo Ann Emerson (R-Mo.) for introducing H.J. Res. 76, which expresses disapproval under the Congressional Review Act for EPA’s effort to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, something the Act was never designed to do.