Restore Fiscal Responsibility

The American economy is one of the greatest forces for good in the history of the world. A healthy economy is powered by millions of entrepreneurs and visionary innovators. Our future is constrained by the unwillingness of our government to stop their fiscal irresponsibility. American Encore will fight for meaningful change to entitlements, the drivers of our $17 trillion national debt, and demand our leaders restrain the scope and reach of government. We believe the time to act is now.

IRS Official's Comments on Public Perception of the Agency Add Insult to Injuries

December 18, 2014

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Blog

By: Patrick Hedger-Policy Director, American Encore A new survey has shown that the American people’s opinion of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is at its lowest point ever. This should come as no surprise given the IRS’s notoriety as one of the most ruthless law enforcement agencies in the...

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December 16, 2014

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American Encore President Sean Noble on the Seth Leibsohn Show

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Ozone Rule Proves it is Time for Liberals to Compromise on EPA

December 9, 2014

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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...

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Statement on Obama's Executive Action on Immigration

November 20, 2014

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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...

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House Bill Seeks to Tear Down Curtain of Secrecy at EPA

November 19, 2014

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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...

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Keeping Arizona Ahead: Doug Ducey Gets Tax Policy

September 16, 2014

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By: Patrick Hedger -Policy Director, American Encore This November, with Governor Jan Brewer up against her term limits, Arizonans will be electing a new governor, and with that, have an important choice to make. Choice defines our democratic government here in the United States, but choice is also...

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Has America Lost Its Optimism? No. It Has Been Spent.

August 14, 2014

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By: Patrick Hedger - Policy Director, American Encore Washington Post opinion columnist Dana Milbank wrote a piece in response to the findings of a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll which attempts to rationalize the poll’s starkly depressing results. What the poll found is that American...

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Real Unemployment Rate Reveals a Labor Market Still Struggling

July 9, 2014

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President Obama continues to insist that the country is better off today than when he first took office. While there are many different indicators that say otherwise, the president and his allies in Congress and elsewhere continue to point to the labor market, specifically the unemployment rate,...