Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—July 21, 2015. Statement of Lisa Gilbert, Director, Public Citizen’s Congress Watch Division: An amendment to block the adoption of new regulations to clarify what constitutes political activity for nonprofits would only continue to encourage huge sums of secret contributions to be improperly funneled into our elections. It also[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 21, 2015. Statement of Robert Weissman, President, Public Citizen: Public Citizen applauds the U.S. Department of Defense, working in tandem with the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, for taking swift and strong action to protect military service members from predatory lenders by completing new rules intended to fulfill[Read More…]

Ohio —(ENEWSPF)–July 21, 2015.  Today, Governor John Kasich is going to hold a press conference to announce his candidacy for President of the United States. Erika West, political director for NARAL Pro-Choice America, released the following statement: “It’s tough to discern what the bigger joke is, imagining John Kasich in the[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 21, 2015. On today’s fifth anniversary of The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka made the following statement: Working families have waited too long for changes required by Dodd-Frank legislation. Meanwhile, corporations continue to write their own rules. It’s a[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—July 21, 2015. Statement of Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter: “As the Senate begins to consider a new long-term highway funding bill, there has been discussion of including a change to the existing Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA). The change would enable concurrent use[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 20, 2015.  Sasha Bruce, Senior Vice President of Campaigns and Strategies at NARAL Pro-Choice America released the following statement: “Today, just one week after announcing for president, Scott Walker showed Americans his true vision for women in America: outlawing abortion at 20 weeks, even in cases of rape[Read More…]

Senator McCain Served With Honor and Has Been A Leader In The Fight To Fix the VA Arlington, Va. –-(ENEWSPF)–July 19, 2015.  In response to Donald Trump’s disrespectful and blatantly false attacks against Senator McCain’s military service and record on VA reform, Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) CEO Pete Hegseth[Read More…]

WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–July 17, 2015 – Canada’s 13 provincial and territorial premiers today issued a national energy strategy, after lengthy negotiations. While the premiers added new recommendations on clean energy and energy efficiency to a tepid commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the strategy continues to advance its carbon-intensive tar sands industry,[Read More…]

Earthjustice statement on Senators Hoeven (R-ND) and Manchin (D-WV) bill Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–July 17, 2015.  Yesterday, Senators Hoeven (R-ND) and Manchin (D-WV) introduced a new bill seeking to eliminate, weaken and delay protections in the long-awaited and first-ever national coal ash rule, before it’s even implemented.  The U.S. Environmental Protection[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—July 16, 2015. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned a deadly attack in Tennessee that left four Marines dead. In a statement, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said: “We condemn this horrific attack in the strongest terms[Read More…]