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December
Date Issue Title
DEC 20 Judiciary Precedents for Putting Limits in the "Reinsurance Bill": A Dozen Federal Laws That Prohibit or Limit Punitive Damages
DEC 13 Defense Replacing "Mutual Assured Destruction" with Mutual Cooperation: U.S. Withdraws from Obsolete 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
DEC 13 Terrorism;
Judiciary		 Why the House's "Reinsurance Bill" Includes Litigation Management Reforms
DEC 12 Terrorism Facts from the Moussaoui Indictment: The Threat Posed by al Qaeda
DEC 4 Congress We'll Be Home for Christmas. . . If Only in Our Dreams: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
November
Date Issue Title
NOV 7 Civil Rights;
Terrorism;
Transportation		 Learning From the ACLU's Policy Against Airport Screenings: Is Liberty Lost During Emergencies?
NOV 6 Labor Pre-Empting Laws in 27 States: The Daschle Amendment is Anti-Federalism
NOV 5 Labor Senator Reid, We Couldn't Agree More. . . The Daschle Amendment is Anti-Worker
NOV 1 Trade Now is the Time to Renew the President's Trade Promotion Authority
NOV 1 Education Gregg Amendment Redirects Unauthorized School Construction Funds to Needy Students
October
Date Issue Title
OCT 31 Budget;
Economy		 Don't Confuse Spending with Stimulus
OCT 26 Terrorism;
Civil Rights;
Judiciary		 The Anti-Terrorism Bill in Context: Is Safety a Civil Right?
OCT 25 Trade;
Technology		 Trade Promotion Authority Needed to Revive High Tech and the Struggling Economy
OCT 17 Second Amendment Welcome News: Fifth Circuit: Second Amendment Protects an Individual Right to Own and Carry Guns
OCT 11 Judiciary A Year Ago, It Was Democrats Pushing For Judicial Confirmations
OCT 2 Energy;
Bush Administration		 Reliable and Affordable Energy is Critical to Economy: We Need an Energy Plan Now To Enhance the Economy
OCT 2 Foreign Affairs;
Terrorism		 Prelude to September 11, 2001: A Decade of Terrorist Attacks
September
Date Issue Title
SEPT 27 Foreign Affairs;
Terrorism		 Trade Center Blast of Nuclear Proportions: Terrorists on Fast Learning Curve To Ever More Lethal Bombs
SEPT 25 Labor Don't Kick an Economy When It's Down: Raising the Minimum Wage Is Not An Economic Stimulus
SEPT 21 Foreign Affairs;
Terrorism		 World Trade Center -- Pentagon, Pearl Harbor, Antietam: Americans Who Died On American Soil
SEPT 20 Defense;
Terrorism		 Missile Defense: One Important Tool for Homeland Defense: Homeland Defense: A U.S. Priority
August
Date Issue Title
AUG 7 Technology Senate Democrats' Feckless, Tech-less Agenda
AUG 3 Taxes Whose Money Is it -- and What Is It Good For?
AUG 3 Judiciary Results that Make Your Head Spin: The ABA's Record on Judicial Nominees
AUG 3 Judiciary The Historical Record on Judicial Nominations
July
Date Issue Title
JULY 26 Defense Finding Innovative Ways to Keep the Peace: Russia's Putin Agrees to Discuss President Bush's Strategic Approach
JULY 23 Second Amendment A Good Week for the Second Amendment
JULY 12 Budget Spending Increases, Not Tax Cuts, Threaten the Budget: Hey, Big Spender!
JULY 12 Crime;
Judiciary		 How Many Were There? A Closer Look at the Seventeen Reported "Hate-Crimes" Murders of 1999
JULY 11 Crime;
Judiciary		 The 1999 Facts on Crimes and "Hate Crimes": "Hate Crimes" in Context
JULY 9 Judiciary;
Transportation		 Underinflated Tires and Overinflated Egos: Lawyers' Silence and Highway Deaths
June
Date Issue Title
JUNE 29 Defense Democrats Out of Step with Public: Americans Support President Bush's Call for a National Missile Defense System
JUNE 28 Technology;
Energy		 High Tech Industry and the President's Energy Plan: You Can't Support One and Not the Other
JUNE 25 Health Care The Ol' Bait-and-Switch: S. 1052 Pulls a Fast One on Employer Liability, Contract Sanctity, and Medical Review
JUNE 22 Health Care Gramm-Hutchison PBOR Amendment: Texas Language Would Make Good on Dems' Promises to Protect Employers From Lawsuits
JUNE 22 Health Care Sen. Edwards Talks Lawsuits on TV: Oops! He Did It Again
JUNE 22 Health Care From the Congressional Record: Senator Gregg: McCain-Kennedy-Edwards (S. 1052) Would Violate Health Plan Contracts
JUNE 22 Health Care From the Congressional Record: Senator Gregg on McCain-Kennedy-Edwards' "Go-Straight-to-Court" Loophole
JUNE 22 Health Care From the Congressional Record: Senator Gregg: Claims that McCain-Edwards-Kennedy Caps Damages are Bogus
JUNE 21 Health Care From the Congressional Record: Senator Gregg on S. 1052's Employer Liability Provisions
JUNE 21 Health Care From the Congressional Record: Senator Gregg: McCain-Edwards-Kennedy Gives Trial Lawyers Two Bites At the Apple
JUNE 21 Health Care From the Congressional Record: Senator Gregg: What Today's Patients' Rights Debate is Really About
JUNE 20 Energy Why Energy Price Controls Won't Work
JUNE 20 Health Care In Their Own Words: Democrats' Goal Is Government-Run Health Care
JUNE 20 Health Care Has Senator Edwards Read His Own Bill?
JUNE 20 Health Care Cancelling Coverage May Cost Lives: McCain-Edwards-Kennedy Would Deny Diagnostic Tests to 14,000 Patients Daily
JUNE 14 Judiciary Giving Boy Scouts Equal Access to Public School Facilities
JUNE 11 Judiciary Bipartisan Support for the Death Penalty: Returning Capital Punishments to Federal Law
JUNE 7 Judiciary;
Constitution		 From Kennedy to Clinton, Presidents Get Their Judicial Nominees: Choosing Judges
JUNE 7 Education Vote to Preserve Local Control: Dodd Amendment Would Gut the Charter States/Straight A's Compromise
May
Date Issue Title
MAY 24 Republican Congress Senate Accomplishments for the 107th Congress, to Date
MAY 22 Judiciary In First Two Years, New Presidents Get More Than 90 Percent of Their Judicial Nominees Confirmed
MAY 21 Judiciary It's Time to Confirm Ted Olson For Solicitor General of the United States
MAY 21 Education The Only Reform that Counts: Vote for Senator Gregg's "Low-Income School Choice Demonstration Act"
MAY 18 Defense Refuting Democrat Criticisms of Missile Defense: Democrats Can't Get Past Cold War Mentality
MAY 15 Taxes Relief Act of 2001 Makes Tax Code More Progressive
MAY 9 Judiciary;
Bush Administration		 President Names Eleven Extraordinary Lawyers to the Federal Bench
MAY 8 Taxes Why Won't Senator Daschle Answer the Question? What Should the Maximum Rate Be? -- Less Than You Might Think
MAY 7 Education Tying Education Dollars to Achievement: Senate on Tuesday to Vote on Craig Amendment to S. 1
April
Date Issue Title
APR 24 Education Does Washington Know Best? Ask Owensboro: The People Who Made This Map Want to Run Your Child's School
APR 6 Republican Congress Senate Accomplishments for the 107th Congress, Our First Eight Weeks
APR 3 Budget Democrat Plan Fails Basic Test: Debt Management 101
March
Date Issue Title
MAR 29 Education;
Republican Congress		 GOP Outspends Democrats on Education: Federal Education Spending Increased 50 Percent Under Republican Congress
MAR 28 Campaign Finance;
Judiciary		 What We Should Learn from Buckley v. Valeo: How Important is Non-Severability?
MAR 27 Campaign Finance;
Judiciary		 Supporters Already on Record for Non-Severability: Severability and Non-Severability in S. 27
MAR 20 Campaign Finance;
Labor		 Does McCain-Feingold Stand Beck on Its Head?
MAR 16 Environment President Bush: The Right Decision on Carbon Dioxide
MAR 15 Medicare;
Social Security;
Budget		 The Conrad "Lockbox" -- Badly Flawed
MAR 8 Judiciary;
Campaign Finance;
Constitution		 Buckley in a Nutshell
MAR 6 Taxes;
Budget		 Testing Our Fiscal Devotion: Another Argument for the Bush Tax Cut: Congress' Own "Temptation Island"
MAR 2 Budget The Democrats' Stealth Spending Plan
February
Date Issue Title
FEB 28 Budget;
Taxes		 The President's Budget: Promises Kept
FEB 22 Education Study of Florida's "A+ Program": With School Choice, Failing Schools See the Biggest Gains
FEB 20 Health Care Amid Double-Digit Cost Increases. . . Half of Employers Say They Would Drop Employee Coverage If Exposed to Lawsuits
FEB 20 Health Care McCain-Kennedy Would Allow Lawsuits Against Employers and Cancel Coverage for One Million Americans
FEB 15 Taxes;
Budget		 Responsible Tax Relief for All Taxpayers: Is the Bush Tax Cut Too Large?
FEB 14 Taxes;
Budget		 Tax Relief for All Taxpayers: More Surplus than Debt: Another Argument for Tax Relief Now
FEB 6 Taxes Return to Sender: Tax Overpayment Causes Record Tax Burden
January
Date Issue Title
JAN 31 Judiciary;
Republican Congress		 Only Two Attorneys General Rejected in Two Centuries: Feingold: For Ashcroft
JAN 30 Judiciary;
Republican Congress		 Ashcroft Floor Debate Talking Points: Charges and Responses
JAN 30 Judiciary;
Republican Congress		 John Ashcroft -- Integrity, Experience, and Justice For All
JAN 30 Judiciary;
Republican Congress		 John Ashcroft -- The Best Man For the Job, No. 12
JAN 30 Bush Administration President's Bush's Faith-Based Initiative: Rallying the Armies of Compassion
JAN 29 Second Amendment;
Judiciary;
Republican Congress		 Notable "Madmen" Who Share John Ashcroft's View of the Second Amendment: A Bulwark Against Tyranny
JAN 25 Second Amendment;
Judiciary;
Republican Congress		 The Second Amendment: "Central to Preserving Liberty": John Ashcroft's Defense of the Second Amendment
JAN 25 Environment;
Republican Congress		 I Know Gale Norton -- And She's No Bruce Babbitt
JAN 25 Education "Educational Emancipation": Support for Parental Choice Comes from Across the Political Spectrum
JAN 25 Judiciary;
Republican Congress		 John Ashcroft -- The Best Man For the Job, No. 11
JAN 23 Judiciary;
Republican Congress		 Senate Passed 100 Percent of Clinton's Cabinet Nominees With 97-Percent GOP Support
JAN 23 Education No Child Left Behind: President Bush's Blueprint for Transforming the Federal Role in Education
JAN 23 Judiciary;
Republican Congress		 John Ashcroft -- The Best Man For the Job, No. 10
JAN 22 Judiciary;
Republican Congress		 John Ashcroft -- The Best Man For the Job, No. 9
JAN 19 Judiciary;
Republican Congress		 John Ashcroft -- The Best Man For the Job, No. 8
JAN 18 Judiciary;
Republican Congress		 John Ashcroft -- The Best Man For the Job, No. 7
JAN 18 Judiciary;
Republican Congress		 John Ashcroft: The Most Experienced Attorney General Nominee -- in U.S. History
JAN 17 Judiciary;
Republican Congress		 John Ashcroft -- The Best Man For the Job, No. 6
JAN 17 Judiciary;
Republican Congress		 What His Colleagues Say About Nominee John Ashcroft
JAN 16 Judiciary;
Republican Congress		 John Ashcroft -- The Best Man For the Job, No. 5
JAN 12 Judiciary;
Republican Congress		 John Ashcroft -- The Best Man For the Job, No. 4
JAN 11 Second Amendment;
Judiciary;
Crime		 You're Concerned John Ashcroft Won't Enforce Gun Laws?? Where Have You Been??
JAN 11 Judiciary;
Republican Congress		 John Ashcroft -- The Best Man For the Job, No. 3
JAN 10 Judiciary;
Republican Congress		 John Ashcroft -- The Best Man For the Job, No. 2
JAN 9 Judiciary;
Republican Congress		 John Ashcroft -- The Best Man For the Job, No. 1

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Date Issue Bill
DEC 6 Appropriations;
Defense		 H.R. 3338 -- Department of Defense Appropriation Bill for FY 2002
DEC 5 Agriculture S. 1731 -- Agriculture, Conservation and Rural Enhancement Act of 2001
NOV 28 Seniors;
Social Security		 H.R. 1140 -- Railroad Retirement and Survivors' Improvement Act of 2001
NOV 14 Taxes;
Terrorism		 H.R. 3090 -- "The Economic Recovery and Assistance for American Workers Act of 2001"
NOV 13 Taxes;
Commerce;
Technology		 H.R. 1552 -- Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act
NOV 8 Intelligence;
Defense		 S. 1428 -- Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2002
NOV 1 Appropriations S. 1543 -- District of Columbia Appropriations Bill, FY02
OCT 30 Appropriations;
Education; Health Care;
Labor		 S. 1536 -- Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill, 2002
OCT 5 Transportation;
Terrorism		 S. 1447 -- Aviation Security Act
OCT 3 Foreign Affairs;
Appropriations		 H.R. 2506 -- Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriation Bill, FY 2002
SEPT 26 Defense;
Appropriations		 S. 1460 -- Military Construction Appropriation Bill, FY 2002
SEPT 20 Defense S. 1438 -- The National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2002
SEPT 18 Appropriations;
Federal Government		 S. 1398/H.R. 2590 -- Treasury and General Government Appropriation Bill, FY 2002
SEPT 6 Appropriations;
Commerce;
Foreign Affairs;
Judiciary		 S. 1215 -- Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, FY 2002
AUG 14 Defense;
Trade;
Technology		 S. 149 -- The Export Administration Act of 2001
JULY 26 Agriculture S. 1246 -- Emergency Agriculture Assistance Act of 2001
JULY 25 Appropriations;
Veterans;
Housing		 S. 1216 -- Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2002
JULY 18 Appropriations;
Transportation		 S. 1178 -- Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill, FY 2002
JULY 18 Appropriations;
Federal Government		 S. 1172 -- Legislative Branch Appropriations, Fiscal Year 2002
JULY 16 Appropriations;
Energy;
Environment		 H.R. 2311 -- Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, FY 2002
JULY 10 Appropriations;
Energy;
Environment		 H.R. 2217 -- Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, FY 2002
JUNE 25 Health Care S. 1052 -- The "Bipartisan Patient Protection Act" (McCain-Edwards-Kennedy)
JUNE 22 Appropriations;
Defense		 S. 1077 -- Supplemental Appropriations for FY 2001
MAY 16 Taxes S. 896 -- Tax Reconciliation Bill (RELIEF Act of 2001)
MAY 9 Budget;
Taxes		 Highlights of the Conference Report to Accompany H. Con. Res. 83, Concurrent Budget Resolution for FY 2002
APR 30 Education S. 1 -- Better Education for Students and Teachers (BEST) Act of 2001
APR 25 Environment S. 350 -- Brownfields Revitalization and Environmental Restoration Act of 2001
APR 2 Budget;
Appropriations;
Taxes		 H. Con. Res. 83 -- Concurrent Budget Resolution for Fiscal Year 2002
MAR 16 Campaign Finance S. 27 -- "McCain-Feingold" Campaign Finance Bill
MAR 6 Labor;
Clinton Administration		 S. J. Res. 6 -- Disapproving Former President Clinton's Ergonomics Rule
MAR 2 Judiciary S. 420 -- The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2001
FEB 7 Energy;
Environment		 S. 235 -- Pipeline Safety Improvement Act of 2001
FEB 6 Foreign Affairs S. 248 -- United Nations Peacekeeping Assessment Adjustment bill