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Welcome to FreedomWorks’ latest blog series, Trump Appointee of the Week! From now until Election Day, we will highlight one of President Trump’s political appointees and their accomplishments. Check back every other week for the next edition and let us know who you want to see named the next Trump Appointee of the Week!
On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and ask him or her to vote YES on the Lofgren/Davidson Amendment to H.R. 6172. Introduced, as the name suggests, by Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Warren Davidson (R-Ohio), this amendment would bar the government from accessing the internet search and browser history data of US persons under the Section 215 business records authority without a probable cause warrant.
We have been seeing buckling infrastructure and rolling blackouts throughout Venezuela for years. The sorry state of Venezuela’s networks is nothing new. But, the new quarantine, and the massive surge in network traffic that comes with it, may finally break Venezuela's internet.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In response to the anniversary of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) repealing the burdensome Title II regulations on the Internet, Adam Brandon, FreedomWorks President, commented:
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In response to the House’s passage today of the so-called Save the Internet Act, Patrick Hedger, FreedomWorks Foundation Director of Policy, commented:
On behalf of our activist community, I urge you to contact your senators and ask them to vote NO on the Restoring Internet Freedom Order CRA Resolution of Disapproval, S.J.Res. 52. This resolution would provide for congressional disapproval of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Restoring Internet Freedom Order, which repealed burdensome Title II Internet regulations.
[...] However, FreedomWorks, a conservative think tank, said it generated 650,000 messages to Congress on Monday to “preempt the left’s attempt to rally for heavy handed Internet regulation by the federal government,” spokesman Jon Meadows said in an email.
FreedomWorks President Adam Brandon issued the following statement on FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr’s speech announcing the next step in the Commission’s wireless infrastructure plan:
FreedomWorks Foundation, American Legislative Exchange Council, Tea Party Patriots and Committee to Unleash Prosperity in partnership with a coalition of conservative organizations and prominent individuals, launched the Save Our Country Task Force.