ALG Editor’s Note: In the following news story from the Westfield Leader, Americans for Limited Government’s President Bill Wilson was quoted in a story about citizens who protested their Congressman on Cap-and-Trade.
By Paul J. Peyton
WESTFIELD — Nearly two dozen protesters converged on Rep. Leonard Lance’s North Avenue office in Westfield on Monday. They were opposed to the congressman’s affirmative vote on the 1,600-page American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2454), better known as the cap-and-trade or global warming/climate and energy bill. Opponents called the bill, which supporters say is the first legislative action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, a national energy tax.
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Americans for Limited Government (ALG) President Bill Wilson said the legislation “will deliberately increase the costs of gasoline, oil and coal at a time when the American people can ill afford it.”