We need your Help!
To: Those Interested in Curbing
Washington Regulators
The next three weeks are critical as we will need grassroots pressure in our 24 most critical states to ensure that we find 2014 sponsors and co-sponsors for our state Resolutions urging Congress to propose The Regulation Freedom Amendment and even more important, our state "no runaway convention" laws like the one signed by Gov. Pence in Indiana.
Deadlines for pre-filing and introducing legislation are approaching. January may be too late in some states.
We need your help and the help of others to build our list of grassroots tea party, GOP, and other pro-limited government group leader endorsements in these key states where Republicans control or could control the legislature.
Our key states with 2014 legislative sessions are:
NORTHEAST--PA
ATLANTIC SOUTH-VA, NC, SC, GA, FL
MID-SOUTH-AL, MI, LA, ARK, TN
GREAT LAKES-OH, MI, IN, WI
GREAT PLAINS-SD, NE, KS, MO,
SWEST/WEST-OK, WY, ID, UT, AZ, AK
Let us know if you personally might have time in the next two weeks to email and then, if you get a phone number, call just FIVE leaders in a state of your choice and ask if they would like to hear more about a strategy to take away Obama's regulatory power that is backed by two former Governors, a former White House Counsel, a founder of the Federalist Society, and legislative leaders around the country.
It can be a very short call. If someone says they want more information, we can have someone else follow up if you don't feel ready yet to explain our basic points.
The key is that now, December 2013 is a critical time for this effort. Many deadlines for drafting and pre-filing legislation will be passed by January 1.
Let us know if you can help and if so what state you would like to choose.
The President's regulators hope you are too busy!
Thanks
Roman Buhler
Director
The Madison Coalition
Rbuhler@MadisonCoalition.Org
202 255 5000.
Here are some brief talking points:
STATES CAN STOP FEDERAL REGULATORS!
• Washington regulators are abusing their power.
• The IRS, EPA, ATF, NLRB, SEC, and Dept of Health and Human Services are only some of the agencies that need more accountability.
• We need to take power OUT of Washington and make government more accountable to the people!
• One thing we can do is to require that Congress approve major new federal regulations before they can take effect
• The Regulation Freedom Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution would ensure that regulators were permanently accountable to elected officials
• Here is the Text:
"Whenever one quarter of the Members of the U.S. House or the U.S. Senate transmit to the President their written declaration of opposition to a proposed federal regulation, it shall require a majority vote of the House and Senate to adopt that regulation."
• Congress is too divided to pass a law or a propose a Constitutional Amendment to limit federal power.
• But four times in American history states have forced Congress to propose an Amendment states want to limit federal power.
•Congress fears a Convention that would be more powerful than Congress and has always proposed the Amendment states want to avoid one.
• To strengthen their power to force Congress to propose an Amendment states want, a majority of states can pass a new kind of Tenth Amendment-based "Faithful Delegate" law.
• The State of Indiana just passed such a law signed by Governor Mike Pence.
• Just as some states have laws to require that presidential electors do what they have promised, Indiana's law can require delegates to a Constitutional Amendment Convention to keep their promise, for example, to just vote up or down on the exact Amendment the States have proposed.
• The law works by giving states the right to replace delegates who break their promise to obey strict state limits on their authority.
• If a majority of states, by passing these laws, can limit a convention to an up or down vote on just one amendment, 2/3 of the states can safely force Congress to propose that exact Amendment, because Congress will do almost anything to avoid a convention that is more powerful than Congress.
• So if a majority of States pass a Tenth Amendment law like Indiana's, they can empower 2/3 of the states to force Congress to propose a "Regulation Freedom Amendment" to require that Congress approve major new federal regulations.
• A coalition of business leaders, 2nd Amendment defenders, religious freedom advocates, and those who believe Washington bureaucrats need more accountability could build a bipartisan coalition in the required 2/3 of the states to support the Regulation Freedom Amendment.
• The 27 states with Republican majorities, 4 states where Republicans can win new majorities, (ME, NH, IA, and NM) and 3 states with pro-energy Democrats (VA, WVA, and KY) add up to 34, 2/3 of the states.
• But in 2014 we must pass 10th Amendment laws to empower states and Resolutions urging Congress to propose The Regulation Freedom Amendment.
Then in 2015, states can safely pass Article V Resolutions that force Congress to propose the Amendment.
• Deadlines for introducing legislation for action in 2014 are approaching rapidly. Some are in December. So we must act now.
•. Our first task is to educate limited-government-minded leaders, starting with those in the 27 states with Republican majorities in the state legislature about this strategy, so those leaders can educate their state legislators.
• We need your help to spread this message now on how grassroots volunteers, business leaders, and state legislators can stop big government's abuse of federal power.
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