Conservative Action Project

November 4, 2021
Washington, DC

Conservatives call on congressional Republicans to stand united in opposition to both the forthcoming infrastructure bill and the Democrat-led reconciliation legislation.

It is now clear that the fate of these two bills is inextricably linked. While the $1.2 trillion infrastructure legislation may have been conceived as a separate effort, it has now become a critical component of passing the hotly partisan, multi-trillion dollar reconciliation bill which seeks to fundamentally transform the relationship between the individual and the state with its vast expansion of federal power.

The infrastructure legislation is itself no gem of conservative policy. It dumps more money into a failing Amtrak system without reforming it, sends a disproportionate amount of money to major city transit systems, directs billions of federal subsidies into electric vehicles and low-emission buses and ferries, and even more into suspect climate change policies.

But critically, a vote for this infrastructure bill is a vote for the Democrats’ vast social policies – so-called “human infrastructure” – which they plan to implement along party lines using reconciliation legislation.

This multi-trillion dollar bill represents the most significant expansion of state power since the New Deal, and would reach federal tentacles into every area of American life. From subsidizing universal pre-K and daycare (neglecting those families who prefer to raise their children in the home), to massive public housing subsidies, to further entrenching the disaster that is Obamacare, to pouring half-a-trillion dollars into climate change, to forcing Medicaid expansion onto red states, to flooding the country with cheap foreign labor, to making it easier for illegal immigrants to flout our immigration laws, this legislation is a blatant attempt to remake the American way of life.

Congressional Republicans should not abet the passage of this reconciliation bill in any way. And that means opposing the reconciliation effort, as well as the infrastructure legislation, which Democrats have made central to their strategy of passing their reconciliation bill.

We urge unity from Republicans in the House and Senate in opposing both pieces of legislation, and this attempt by Democrats to impose a sweeping cradle-to-grave expansion of federal power on free Americans.


The Honorable Edwin Meese III
Attorney General
President Ronald Reagan (1985-1988)
The Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell
Chairman, Conservative Action Project (CAP)
Chairman, Constitutional Congress, Inc.
The Honorable Bob McEwen
U.S. House of Representatives
Former Member, Ohio
Myron Ebell
Director, Center for Energy and Environment
Competitive Enterprise Institute
The Honorable Jim DeMint
Chairman, Conservative Partnership Institute
Member, US Senate (SC 2005-2013)
Ed Corrigan
Vice Chairman, Conservative Action Project
President & CEO, Conservative Partnership Institute
William L. Walton
Managing Editor and Host
The Bill Walton Show
Wesley Denton
Chief Operating Officer
Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)
Lori Roman
President
ACRU Action Fund
The Honorable David McIntosh
President
Club for Growth
Scott T. Parkinson
VP for Government Affairs
Club for Growth
Steve Moore
Co-Chair
Committee to Unleash Prosperity
Mary Vought
Executive Director
Senate Conservatives Fund
Jenny Beth Martin
Chairman
Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund
Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin (Ret.)
Executive Vice President
Family Research Council
Rachel A. Bovard
Senior Director of Policy
Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)
Virginia Thomas
President
Liberty Consulting
The Honorable Tony Perkins
President
Family Research Council
The Honorable Becky Norton Dunlop
White House Advisor
President Ronald Reagan (1981-1985)
Lisa B. Nelson
Chief Executive Officer
American Legislative Exchange Council
Kelly J. Shackelford, Esq.
President and CEO
First Liberty Institute
Terry Schilling
Executive Director
American Principles Project
Cleta Mitchell, Esq. The Honorable Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, II
Senior Fellow
Center for Renewing America
L. Brent Bozell III
Founder and President
Media Research Center
Tom Jones
Co-Founder
American Accountability Foundation
The Honorable Morton C. Blackwell
President
The Leadership Institute
Noah Wall
Executive Vice President
FreedomWorks
Alfred S. Regnery
Chairman, Conservative Action Project
President, Republic Book Publishers
The Honorable Paul S. Teller, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Advancing American Freedom
Star Parker
President and CEO
Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE)
Marty Dannenfelser
Director of Governmental Relations
Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE)
The Honorable Mike Hill
Former Member
Florida State Representative
Anne Schlafly Cori
Chairman
Eagle Forum
Saulius “Saul” Anuzis
President
60 Plus Association
James L. Martin
Founder/Chairman
60 Plus Association
The Honorable Scott Walker
President
Young America’s Foundation
Thomas Pyle
President
American Energy Alliance
The Honorable Hon. John N. Raudabaugh
Reed Larson Professor of Labor Law
National Right to Work Foundation
Robert K. Fischer
Meeting Coordinator
Conservatives of Faith
Kielle C. Horton
President
The Lindsey Foundation
Brigitte Gabriel
Founder and Chairman
ACT For America
Peggy Dau
Representative
IranAliveMinistries
Paul Gessing
President
Rio Grande Foundation
Rev. Gregory Quinlan
President
Center for Garden State Families
Jack Park
Conservative Activist and Donor
Law Offices of Jack Park
Craig Shirley
Reagan Biographer
Presidential Historian
Richard D. Hayes
Partner
Hayes, Berry, White & Vanzant LLP
E.W. Jackson Sr.
President
STAND Foundation, Inc.
Rod D. Martin
Founder & CEO
The Martin Organization, Inc.
Sherri R. Martin
Trustee
Florida Baptist Children’s Homes
Haley E. Martin
Past President
The Martin Foundation
Guillermo J. Aragon
Senior Partner
Corbere Partners
Christina Murphy Lusk
President
The Martin Foundation
Lourdes Cosio
Campaign for the American Future
Shawn A. Mitchell
Former National Chaplain
National Federation of Republican Assemblies
Carey Woodruff
Executive Vice President
Foundation for American Christian Education
The Honorable T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.
Chief Domestic Advisor
President Ronald Reagan (1987-1988)
Kay R. Daly
President
Coalition for a Fair Judiciary
Joan Holt Lindsey
President
Lindsey Communications
Nancy Schulze
Founder, President
RCW Speakers
Allen Hebert
Chairman
American-Chinese Fellowship of Houston
Eaton Hopkins
President
Liberty Surgical, Inc.
Mario Navarro da Costa
Director, Washington Bureau
Tradition, Family, Property
Ralph A. Rebandt, II
Governor Candidate
Ralph Rebandt for Governor
David Williams
President
Taxpayers Protection Alliance
Rob Chambers
Executive Vice President
AFA Action
Ron Pearson
Executive Director
Conservative Victory Fund
Martha Boneta
President
VAF
David N. Bossie
President
Citizens United
Charles J. Cooper
Assistant Attorney General, President Ronald Reagan (1985-1988)
Cooper & Kirk, PLLC
Colleen Holcomb
President
Eagle Forum
Brian Rogers
President
Jesse Helms Center
The Honorable Gary L. Bauer
President
American Values
Paige Patterson
President
Sandy Creek Foundation
Joseph A. Morris
Partner, Morris & De La Rosa
Chairman, The Heartland Institute
Lee Beaman
CEO
Beaman Ventures
Seton Motley
President
Less Government
C. Preston Noell III
President
Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.
Judson Phillips
Founder
Tea Party Nation
Randy M. Long
Founder
Long Business Advisors, LLC
Kevin Freeman
Founder
NSIC Institute
Wade Kirby
Director of Development
Great Swamp Watershed Association
The Honorable Peter J. Thomas
Chairman
The Conservative Caucus
G. Eric Georgatos
Executive Producer
America Can We Talk? americacanwetalk.org
Sal Russo
Co-Founder and Chief Strategist
Tea Party Express
Andresen Blom
President
Hawaiian Values
Dr. Chris Hughes
Founder & Chairman
Citizens for America Foundation
Richard G. Scurry
VP Product Development
14all.us
Paavo Ensio
Chairman
Universal Minerals Group
Sheryl Kaufman
Board of Directors
Americans for Limited Government
Jay Mount
President
MDS Communications Corporation
Dr. Richard Rounsavelle
Trustee
MRC
The Honorable Diana Denman
President
The Reagan Legacy Forum
The Honorable Russ Vought
Director
Office of Management and Budget (2020-2021)

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