The EPA is a Job Killing Machine

Washington, D.C. – In a hearing today the Subcommittee on Energy and Power will examine the impact that EPA regulation of greenhouse gases will have on the job market.

“I applaud subcommittee chairman Ed Whitfield (KY) effort to expose the consequences of EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions on the job market. The EPA is taking the lead in advancing Obama’s war on fossil fuels and the agency’s primary weapon is to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately for hard working Americans, the cost of EPA’s action will make energy prices higher, drive jobs overseas and force more citizens to the unemployment line. Under the Obama Administration, the EPA has been transformed to a job killing machine,” said Deneen Borelli, full-time fellow of the National Center-sponsored Project 21 black conservative leadership network. Read more

Black Activist Speaks Out Against Agenda that Assures Suffering

Washington, D.C. – The Obama Administration proposed today that the federal government cut home heating assistance in half, even as the Administration continues to fight for controversial programs that will raise the price of energy.

The Obama Administration’s FY2012 budget, released today, reduces funding to the Low Income Home Energy Program (LIPHEAP) to $2.57 billion — roughly in half compared with the 2009 budget. In its analysis, the Office of Management and Budget justifies the cut by reporting that “energy prices are now significantly lower, and the prior level is no longer sustainable.” Read more

Proposal to Limit EPA Emissions Rules Will Save Jobs, Incomes

Washington, D.C. – A proposal to keep the EPA from usurping the authority of elected lawmakers will receive a hearing this week, marking one of the first attempts by the new Congress to blunt the Obama Administration’s regulatory efforts to achieve unpopular “green” goals.

“After failing to legislatively enact cap-and-trade emissions regulations, the Obama Administration relied on a perverted interpretation of the Clean Air Act. America rang in the new year to new rules on energy and manufacturing that could cause our nation’s economic engine to seize up,” said Dana Joel Gattuso, director of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Center for Environmental and Regulatory Affairs.

On February 9, the Energy and Power Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on the discussion draft of “The Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011.” This proposal, set to be introduced by Senator James Inhofe and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, specifies that the Clean Air Act is not to be used to address climate change and thereby bars EPA regulators from imposing and enforcing carbon restrictions based on the Act. Read more

Black Conservatives Speak Out on Obama’s State of the Union Address

Washington, D.C. – With the completion of President Obama’s second State of the Union Address, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are assessing the President’s rhetoric before Congress and the direction in which he wants to take the nation:

Mychal Massie: “Has Obama had an epiphany, or is he still dazed from his shellacking from the American people in the November elections? From the beginning, he was a free-spending Keynesian. Now he’s talking about capping spending and ending earmarks. It’s inconsistent with his advocacy thus far. It’s too much like when Bill Clinton declared that the ‘era of big government’ was over back in his 1996 address. Changing the language without changing the behavior is nothing more than obfuscation, and would signal that the only one Obama seeks to benefit is himself.” (Mychal Massie is the chairman of the Project 21 black leadership network.) Read more

Black Conservatives Comment on the Needs of the Nation Prior to Obama’s State of the Union Address

Washington, D.C. – Black conservatives with the Project 21 leadership network have low expectations regarding the State of the Union Address.

While Project 21 members see a nation looking for reassurance that the government is acting in its best interest and focusing on the key issues of economic stability and job creation, they do not expect more than rhetoric from President Obama.

“When the polite applause and the partisan demonstrations of loyalty cease in the wake of tonight’s address, will we have seen anything more than the same campaign-style rhetoric we have come to expect from this president? I don’t think so,” said Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie. Read more

Obama Won’t Create Jobs or Innovation by Hiring Progressive CEO Jeff Immelt

Washington, D.C. – President Barack Obama’s appointment of General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt to lead the White House’s new “President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness” does not signal a serious attitude toward thoughtful and open discussion on ways to jumpstart the stalled American economy.

Experts with the National Center for Public Policy Research cite Immelt’s close ties with Obama on policy matters such as cap-and-trade and his ineffective leadership at GE as proof that this new council will not possess the dynamic leadership it deserves. Read more

Nationwide Poll of Conservative Voters Finds Big Business Should Fear Tea Party Activists

New Survey Research Demonstrates Marked Business Risk to Companies Supporting Liberal Policies

Washington, D.C. – Companies supporting President Obama’s big-government policies risk suffering a dramatic drop in customer favorability, a newly-released nationwide research survey of conservative voters conducted by the National Center for Public Policy Research and Freedom Works reveals.

In one example of the research findings, General Electric and Johnson & Johnson – companies that played key roles in advancing President Obama’s agenda, including cap-and-trade and health care – experienced plummeting favorability among conservatives after they were informed of the companies’ lobbying efforts. The drop in favorability was most severe with conservative voters active in the Tea Party movement. Read more

Anti-Free Enterprise Businesses SHOULD Fear Tea Party

Liberal CEOs are the Next Target for Tea Party Activists, says National Center for Public Policy Research

Washington, D.C. – Experts at the National Center for Public Policy Research‘s Free Enterprise Project and Project 21 say the cover story of Bloomberg Businessweek magazine, “Why Business Doesn’t Trust the Tea Party,” explains why big business should be wary of the Tea Party movement.

“Progressive CEOs who embrace inherently anti-capitalist policies are making an enemy of grassroots conservatives and anyone who opposes higher taxes. Businesses should be wary of the Tea Parties, but they brought it on themselves,” said Tom Borelli Ph.D., Director of the Free Enterprise Project. “When CEOs seek short-term profits and political perks by embracing anti-free market policies such as cap-and-trade and ObamaCare, they must realize that they are going to anger proponents of smaller government.” Read more

Free-Market Activist to Take on Big Business at D.C. Tea Party Rally

Washington, D.C. – Speaking the “March on D.C.” tea party at the U.S. Capitol on September 12, Free Enterprise Project Director Dr. Tom Borelli will take some of America’s largest corporate leaders to task for colluding with the Obama White House on a “cap-and-trade” climate policy that would devastate the nation’s already ailing economy. Read more

Juneteenth Civil Rights Holiday Observed With Future Freedom At Risk

Washington, D.C. – On the occasion of “Juneteenth” — the oldest and most recognized annual commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States — members of the Project 21 black leadership network assert the civil rights-themed holiday should be used to reflect on past struggles for freedom and how to expand and protect hard-won liberties and opportunities at a time when they may be on the wane.

Project 21 members have commemorated Juneteenth since 1999, urging black Americans to use the observance of Juneteenth to embrace their inherent talents and strengthen ties with family and community. Read more

Free Enterprise Project Launches Petition Calling for GE CEO Jeff Immelt to Resign

Says Immelt’s Support of President Obama’s Big Government Agenda is a Risk to Liberty

Washington, D.C. – Today the Free Enterprise Project released an online petition calling for Jeff Immelt to resign as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Electric.

The petition can found at http://www.bigbusinesswatch.org.

“In a desperate attempt to find revenue, Immelt is seeking to profit from President Obama’s big government agenda,” said Tom Borelli, Ph.D., director of the National Center for Public Policy Research‘s Free Enterprise Project. “Immelt successfully lobbied for Obama’s failed $787 billion economic stimulus plan and now he is actively lobbying for the president’s cap-and-trade policy. Immelt’s actions are responsible for putting our nation in deeper debt and looting future generations of their economic liberty.” Read more

Kerry – Lieberman Cap-and-Trade Bill Rewards Wall Street

Kerry – Lieberman Cap-and-Trade Legislation Rewards Wall Street and Members of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board

Legislation Powers a Green Investment Bubble

Washington, DC: Responding to the introduction of the American Power Act by Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), policy experts at the National Center for Public Policy Research are calling attention to the role big business and special interests played in shaping the bill. Read more

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