On July 11, the Conservative Action Project (CAP) released a Memo for the Movement entitled Real Repeal and Real Reform for Obamacare. A PDF version of the memo can be found here. This and other CAP memos can be viewed on CAP's website.

CAP encourages all leaders to move this memo directly out to their organizations' members to inform and provide them with principled policy statements or to use the information in another form. The material contained in this memo provides important information, and CAP is interested in it being shared widely to have a more well-informed citizenry.

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Justice Larsen

One of these vacancies is with the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. President Trump nominated Michigan Supreme Court Justice Joan Larsen for this vacancy nearly two months ago. The Senate Judiciary Committee has yet to hold a hearing on her nomination, because Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Gary Peters (D-MI) have not submitted their blue slips consenting that Justice Larsen be moved forward.

In response to this delay, Judicial Crisis Network (JCN) launched a $140,000 digital ad campaign for Justice Larsen on June 30. Here is an ad that explains that Justice Larsen is well-qualified and Senators Stabenow and Peters are obstructing her nomination solely because of partisan politics. This demonstrates the way Democrats in the Senate use arcane procedures to quietly slow down (or completely stop) the President's nominees from advancing.

Would you please consider contacting Senators Stabenow and Peters and ask them to "end the political games" and support Justice Larsen's selection? Plus, spread the word of this obstruction via a tweet, Facebook post, newsletter blurb, op-ed, etc.

CNP Member Gary Marx is a Senior Advisor to JCN.

To spur activism on the issue of Title II regulations of the Internet, these groups partnered with FreedomWorks to launch UnlockTheNet.com:

• 60 Plus Association (CNP Member Jim Martin is the Founder and Chairman)
• American Commitment
• American Conservative Union
• Americans for Prosperity
• Americans for Tax Reform (CNP Member Grover Norquist is the President)
• Center for Individual Freedom
• Citizens Against Government Waste
• Competitive Enterprise Institute
• Consumer Action for a Strong Economy
• Digital Liberty
• Institute for Policy Innovation
• Less Governemnt
• National Taxpayers Union
• Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council
• Taxpayers Protection Alliance

Adam Brandon

CNP Gold Circle Member and FreedomWorks President Adam Brandon said this in regards to the new website: " This site is a resource for those who support a free and open Internet, not one strapped with needless regulations from government, a solution without a problem.... Unless you want the Internet to work more like the VA, the DMV, and the post office, let's keep the Internet free from burdensome regulations."  

On June 30, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis announced he will defer implementation of Obama's military transgender policy for six months to study the issue.

According to a Liberty Counsel press release, CNP member and retired Army Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin said "the Pentagon is right to hit the brakes on a policy that will fail to make our military more capable in performing its mission to fight and win wars. It's good that the nation's military leadership realizes what the American people realize, this policy makes no sense. The military has been reduced to stripping parts from museums, which is why it makes no sense to spend more than a billion taxpayer dollars on new body parts for anyone who joins the military and identifies as transgender." General Boykin is also the Executive Vice President of the Family Research Council. CNP Member and Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver had this to say about the delayed policy: "We are pleased that Defense Secretary Mattis stopped the Obama transgender policy for six months, and we urge him to put an end to the Obama-inspired plan.... This transgender policy undermines unit cohesion, preparedness and morale. We should focus on making the military prepared to defend, and we must stop using it as a place for social experimentation and coercion." If you would like to read more about this policy and how it would affect the military, please visit the Center for Military Readiness here.

Congresswoman Hartzler

Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler (R-MO-4) had an amendment to the FY18 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which the House is expected to vote on this Friday, June 14, that prohibits taxpayer funding of gender transitioning in the military. In one of her press releases it states that Congresswoman Hartzler withdrew the amendment after debate to give the Department of Defense an opportunity to address the policy internally. She would still like to bring the amendment to the floor, please contact her and encourage this action.

Sherri D. Francescon
Managing Director, CNP Action, Inc.