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Texas Republican attacks Libertarian voting rights
For Immediate Release Monday, April 13, 2015 Republican state representative Drew Springer of Muenster, Texas has filed HB 464, a bill to require minor party nominees to pay filing fees. Libertarian National Committee executive director Wes Benedict commented,...

Libertarian National Committee Chair Nicholas Sarwark says murder charge against Walter Scott's killer is only first step
For Immediate Release Friday, April 10, 2015 Libertarian National Committee Chair Nicholas Sarwark released the following statement today: "Mere words are insufficient to describe my outrage over the murder of Walter Scott by a man in a police uniform. 'A man was...

Libertarian Party endorses Surveillance State Repeal Act
For Immediate Release Friday, March 20, 2015 Urges Americans: Let's Get This Passed! The Libertarian Party endorses the Surveillance State Repeal Act (H.R. 1466) introduced by Rep Mark Pocan (D-WI), which would substantially scale back the surveillance apparatus of...

Republican tax plan leaves federal tax burden dangerously high
For Immediate Release Monday, March 9, 2015 Senators Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) and Mike Lee (R., Utah) - lauded among Republican politicians as two of their more 'fiscally conservative' members - proposed numerous changes to the federal income tax for which most working...

Republican tax plan leaves federal tax burden dangerously high
For Immediate Release Thursday, March 5, 2015 The press release issued on 3/5/2015 contained errors. The revised press release is below. Senators Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) and Mike Lee (R., Utah) - lauded among Republican politicians as two of their more 'fiscally...

Libertarian Party Response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address
For Immediate Release Tuesday, January 20, 2015 Click here to view the Libertarian Party response to President Barack Obama's 2015 State of the Union address Full text of the response delivered by Arvin Vohra, vice chair of the National Libertarian Committee, on...

Lawmakers and Silk Road investigators, prosecutors are the real perps
For Immediate Release Monday, January 12, 2015 Nicholas J. Sarwark, Chair of the Libertarian National Committee, released the following statement today: The Libertarian Party calls for dismissal of the unfounded criminal charges against alleged Silk Road founder and...

Libertarian Party calls for shutting down CIA, criminal prosecutions
For Immediate Release Thursday, December 11, 2014 Libertarian National Committee Chair Nicholas J. Sarwark released the following statement today: "The CIA's practice of torture confirmed by the Senate Intelligence Report released on December 9 shows the agency...

Libertarian Party: Stop deceiving Americans with the term 'government shutdown'
For Immediate Release Tuesday, December 2, 2014 It's a government slowdown , not a shutdown. If you read this Libertarian news release, yet continue to use the term 'government shutdown' in news reports, then you're willfully deceiving the American people. News media...

An open letter from Libertarian Party Chair Nicholas Sarwark to Sen. Rand Paul
For Immediate Release Tuesday, November 25, 2014 Dear Sen. Paul, Sen. Rand Paul We agree with you that Congress should obey the Constitution. We should never engage in foreign wars without a congressional declaration of war, a restraint on military action put in place...