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By: Patrick Hedger- Policy Director, American Encore
The last several years in Washington have been defined by the lack of compromise. No where is this polarization between liberals and conservatives more apparent than in the debate over the roll of environment regulation. Since the Obama administration has taken office, exceptionally large...
American Encore has joined a broad coalition of 21 groups to urge state-level lawmakers to resist the Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) attempt to impose carbon emission regulation through executive fiat...
American Encore President Sean Noble and Policy Director Patrick Hedger released the following joint statement in response to President Obama's announced plans to use executive action to suspend certain immigration laws:
"If President Obama proceeds unabated in granting millions of undocumented immigrants exemptions to federal law, he will be in direct violation of various protections...
11/20/14
By: Patrick Hedger, Policy Director- American Encore
The 2009 film "Pirate Radio" is one of my favorites. Apart from its killer soundtrack, the film tells the story of a bunch of quirky and lovable characters sick of the British government’s refusal to play rock and roll on the radio in the 1960s. Imagine that! Not playing any rock and roll in 1960s Britain, a time when...
11/19/2014
“By refusing to disclose the scientific data used to justify some of the most expensive and economically impactful rules in US history, the EPA is not only entitling themselves to their own facts, but also their own definition of ‘fact’ itself… If Americans are to be subject to the burden of EPA regulations, then the EPA ought to be equally subject to the burden of truth.” –...
