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November
Date	Issue	Title
NOV 19	Welfare	Welfare Reform Claims Another Success: Republican Reforms Helped Left-Leaning Editorial Boards "Grow In Office"
NOV 19	Governmental Affairs; Terrorism	An Amendment Both Wrong and Destructive (Though Good for Trial Lawyers): Daschle-Lieberman Is a Bad Idea -- Even Apart From the Fact that Its Passage Will Doom the Homeland Security Bill
October
Date	Issue	Title
OCT 28	Crime; Constitution	D.C. Snipers Will Not Dissuade the Left: How Soon Will the Constitution Be Construed To Forbid Capital Punishment?
OCT 17	Labor	Minimum Wage: Democrats Refuse to Create New Jobs, Try to Destroy 600,000 Existing Jobs
OCT 16	Judiciary; Democrat Congress	The Democrat Judiciary Committee: Breaking the Rules Instead of Addressing the Failures
OCT 16	Labor; Governmental Affairs; Terrorism	Homeland Security After the Nelson Amendment: Gutting a President's Exclusive National Security Powers
OCT 10	Defense; Foreign Affairs; Terrorism; Bush Administration	The Bush Administration Has Answered the Call: Iraq Resolution: The Road Well Traveled
OCT 8	Taxes; Budget	Correcting the Democrats' Math: Numbers Show Tax Relief Didn't Cause Deficit
OCT 8	Health Care	Expand MSAs Now: IRS Reports 73% of MSAs Are Purchased by Previously Uninsured
OCT 8	Labor	Driven to Distraction: Senate Democrats' Unprecedented Unemployment Insurance Expansion
OCT 1	Labor; Governmental Affairs; Terrorism	Code Red For Homeland Security and Presidential Power: Bargaining About Terrorist Threats
OCT 1	Democrat Congress; Appropriations	Daschle Senate's Appropriations Progress Report: The Worst Senate Record in Two Decades
OCT 1	Democrat Congress	The Dismal Daschle Senate: A Litany of Failures on Daschle's Doorstep
September
Date	Issue	Title
SEPT 27	Labor; Governmental Affairs; Terrorism	Homeland Security and Presidential Power: What the Nelson Amendment Does
SEPT 26	Welfare	Authorization Expires in Five Days: Welfare Reform Lifted Minority Children from Poverty - Even During the Recession
SEPT 25	Labor	Unemployment Insurance: Congress Extended Benefits for Displaced Workers; Now It's Time to Extend Them a Job
SEPT 25	Defense; Foreign Affairs; Terrorism	The Democrats' Case Against Saddam Hussein
SEPT 25	Labor; Governmental Affairs; Terrorism	Four Examples from Customs and Four From INS: Collective Bargaining Agreements And National Security Issues
SEPT 24	Economy; Clinton Administration; Taxes	"Clinton Hangover" Follows Binge
SEPT 19	Judiciary; Democrat Congress	Here We Go Again: Why Democrats Killed the Owen Nomination
SEPT 19	Labor; Terrorism	Homeland Security and 5 U.S.C. §7112(b)(6): The Lieberman Amendment Throws Out Long-Standing Labor Rules That Help Safeguard Our National Security (And Invoking Cloture May Prevent The Senate From Fixing It)
SEPT 18	Labor; Economy	A Bad Law In Need of Repeal: The History & Economics of Davis-Bacon
SEPT 17	Labor; Terrorism	Exploiting Tragedy: Democrats' Davis-Bacon Grab Would Mean Less Money for Security, Disaster Relief
SEPT 16	Constitution	Remembering James McHenry of Maryland: Signing the Constitution, September 17, 1787
SEPT 16	Foreign Relations	U.S. "Reservations" to this Treaty May be Futile: CEDAW: Pro-United Nations, Not Pro-Women
SEPT 9	Judiciary; Democrat Congress	Is the ABA Useful Any Longer? What Does It Know of Litmus Tests? If Justice Owen Isn't "Qualified," Who Can Be?
SEPT 5	Governmental Affairs; Labor; Terrorism	Is Osama bin Laden a Terrorist or a Labor Lawyer? How the Senate Is Threatening the National Security Powers of Presidents -- All Presidents, Not Just This President
SEPT 4	Judiciary; Democrat Congress	Chairman Leahy's Judiciary Committee: Newspapers Nationwide Criticize Democrats' Treatment of Bush Judicial Nominees
August
Date	Issue	Title
AUG 21	Taxes; Economy	New Numbers Support Tax Relief
AUG 14	Foreign Relations	First the Pledge of Allegiance, and Now Mother's Day?!?! Why a Pro-Women Senate Should Not Ratify CEDAW
AUG 1	Welfare	Republicans Are The Party of Compassion: How Welfare Reform Helped Cindy from Colorado
July
Date	Issue	Title
JULY 31	Welfare	Republicans Are The Party of Compassion: How Welfare Reform Helped Marsha from Illinois
JULY 31	Economy	Happy 90th Birthday, Milton Friedman
JULY 30	Health Care	Graham III Prescription Drug Plan: More Cost, Fewer Benefits
JULY 30	Welfare	Republicans Are The Party of Compassion: How Welfare Reform Helped Tanya from New Jersey
JULY 30	Judiciary; Democrat Congress	"The Judicial Emergency Responsibility Act": Senator Leahy's Remedy to the Crisis in the Judiciary
JULY 26	Health Care; Judiciary	Medical Liability Reform: Already Approved by the Senate, the McConnell Amendment Would Expand Health Care Access
JULY 25	Welfare	Republicans Are The Party of Compassion: How Welfare Reform Helped Merlinda from Mississippi
JULY 25	Health Care	The Need for Medical Liability Reform: Overzealous Trial Lawyers Are Denying Medical Care to Expectant Mothers
JULY 24	Welfare	Republicans Are The Party of Compassion: How Welfare Reform Helped Tracy from Florida
JULY 23	Medicare; Democrat Congress	Committee's Potency at Risk: Senate Debating Largest Entitlement Reform in History Without Input from Finance Committee
JULY 18	Medicare; Democrat Congress	Daschle's Scheme Exposed: Medicare Reform Effort 'Scripted For Failure'
JULY 17	Welfare	Republicans Are The Party of Compassion: How Welfare Reform Helped Kristi from New Mexico
JULY 16	Welfare	Republicans Are The Party of Compassion: How Welfare Reform Helped Bryan from North Carolina
JULY 16	Medicare	Baucus: "I don't think this one does it." Graham-Kennedy Medicare Prescription Drug Bill Doesn't Get the Job Done
JULY 15	Welfare	Republicans Are The Party of Compassion: How Welfare Reform Helped Stephanie from Mississippi
JULY 11	Judiciary	The Ninth Circuit -- Fix It! Ninth Circuit's "Pledge" Ruling Underscores That Court's Desperate Need for Balance
JULY 11	Welfare	Republicans Are The Party of Compassion: How Welfare Reform Helped Nancy from Minnesota
JULY 10	Welfare	Republicans Are The Party of Compassion: How Welfare Reform Helped Sandy from Illinois
JULY 9	Welfare	Republicans Are The Party of Compassion: How Welfare Reform Helped Mary from New Jersey
JULY 2	Constitution	The Declaration and Its Heroic Signers: They Pledged Their Lives, Their Fortunes, and Their Sacred Honor
JULY 2	Judiciary	Last Week's Pledge-of-Allegiance Decision: Was the Ninth Circuit Off Base -- Or Merely Following the Course of Precedent?
June
Date	Issue	Title
JUNE 26	Defense; Democrat Congress	Fiscal Responsibility -- Since When? Why Do Democrats Oppose the President's Missile Defense Funding Request? It's Not the Cost
JUNE 20	Energy; Environment	Half a Century and $7 Billion Later, Who Wants to Go Back to Square One? The Senate Should Affirm the President's Approval of the Nation's Nuclear Waste Repository Site
JUNE 18	Welfare	Republicans Are the Party of Compassion: Senate Republicans Back President's Welfare Reform Plan
JUNE 14	Cloning	Americans Develop It; Someone Else Abuses It: Could Research Cloning in the U.S. Become Reproductive Cloning Elsewhere?
JUNE 13	Defense	ABM Treaty Today Officially Relegated to the Dustbin of History: Democrats Reverse Earlier Pledge to Defend Americans
JUNE 13	Terrorism; Economy	Terrorism Insurance and Premiums
JUNE 13	Terrorism; Economy	Because an Airplane Crashed Into NYC's Tallest Building . . .The Federal Government Pays Damages, But Not Punitive Damages
JUNE 13	Terrorism; Economy	Who Stalled Terrorism Reinsurance? -- Democrats and Their Trial-Lawyer Friends
JUNE 12	Taxes	Democrats May Offer Amendment to Expand Faulty Tax Law: Family Business Exclusion in Tax Code is Fatally Flawed
JUNE 11	Taxes	Who Pays the Death Tax?
JUNE 10	Congress	Quick Guide for Germaneness Post-Cloture
JUNE 6	Crime; Judiciary	Telling "the Rest of the Story": Committee's Own Best Examples Reveal Problems With "Hate Crimes" Bill
JUNE 6	Congress	Happy Anniversary, Leader Daschle: A Not-So-Sterling Record
JUNE 5	Crime; Judiciary	Taking the "Hate Crimes" Test
JUNE 4	Budget	Remember When? Senator Byrd's View of the Budget Process When He Was Majority Leader
JUNE 3	Budget	Where's the Budget? "A Dramatic Failure"
May
Date	Issue	Title
MAY 24	Constitution	Patriot, Teacher, Scholar, Husband: Remembering George Wythe On the 215th Anniversary Of the Constitutional Convention of 1787
MAY 20	Crime; Judiciary	Latest Facts on Crimes and "Hate Crimes": "Hate Crimes" Versus All Crimes
MAY 16	Labor; Trade	"Wage Insurance": Gregg Amendment Would Strike Democrats' Sweetheart Deal for Lawyers and CEOs
MAY 10	Trade; Labor	How to Kill a Trade Bill: History Does Not Support Democrat Mandate that TPA and TAA Be Tied Together
MAY 10	Judiciary; Terrorism	When the War Is At Home, Who Is On the Front Lines? Judges and the War On Terrorism
MAY 9	Trade; Labor; Health Care	How to Kill a Trade Bill: President Bush Says Daschle TAA Proposals "Threaten Passage of TPA"
MAY 9	Judiciary	Good For the Gander: What Democrats Said When Their President Was Nominating and Republicans Controlled the Judiciary Committee
MAY 8	Judiciary	Two Exceptional Nominees To D.C. Circuit Have Been Waiting a Year: Time to Confirm Estrada and Roberts
MAY 7	Civil Rights; Labor	The Unprecedented & Extraordinary Breadth of S. 1284: The ENDA-Scope
MAY 2	Defense; Appropriations	President and Republicans Put Defense First: Senate Democrats Should Just Say "Yes" to Moving the Defense Appropriation Bill First
April
Date	Issue	Title
APR 30	Health Care	Health Coverage for Displaced Workers: MSAs Guarantee Better & Broader Coverage than Democrats' "COBRA-Care"
APR 26	Judiciary	Terrorism Cases Headed to Appeals Courts: What Appellate Judges Do -- And Why More Are Needed Now
APR 25	Judiciary; Abortion	The Left's Iron-Clad Litmus Test on Abortion: Justice White Could Not Be Confirmed Today
APR 25	Judiciary	Case Arising From 9-11 Attack Headed to 6th Circuit: New Appellate Judges Needed Now
APR 18	Congress	Republicans Agree!! Democrats Aren't Getting Their Fair Share of Air Time
APR 17	Judiciary	Senator McConnell Asks . . .Where Are the Judges?
APR 17	Budget	"Senate Dems Stymied on Budget": 27 Years of Fiscal Restraint Endangered
APR 17	Campaign Finance; Judiciary	Grassroots Groups Now Thrive Under the Constitution: Can the Government Lawfully Prohibit You From Speaking Until You Change Your Identity and Get New Friends?
APR 12	Congress	Senator Daschle's Respect for the Committee Process: Which Committee?
APR 11	Judiciary	After One Year, Still 31 Vacancies on the Courts of Appeals: Senator Hatch Urges Prompt Action on Judges
APR 10	Judiciary	Democrats' Delay Causing 'Inexcusable' Vacancy Crisis: Vice President Cheney's Remarks on Judges
APR 2	Judiciary; Crime	Crime, the Courts, the Constitution: Supreme Court To Decide on Constitutionality Of California's Three-Strikes-and-You're-Out Law
March
Date	Issue	Title
MAR 26	Health Care	Reforms That Ignore Third-Party Payment Will Always Fail to Tame Health Spending
MAR 22	Budget	"Circuit Breaker" Guts Defense, Raises Taxes: Budget Breaker
MAR 21	Budget; Social Security	"Senate Democrats Tap Social Security in Budget Plan"
MAR 21	Immigration	Senate Likely to Take Up House-Passed Border Security Bill After Easter Recess
MAR 20	Campaign Finance; Judiciary	Campaign Finance "Reform" at the Supreme Court: Facing the First Amendment
MAR 19	Budget	Senate Democrats' Budget Hole
MAR 19	Welfare; Child Care	Now Hear This . . . Daschle Democrats Voted Against Nearly $200 Billion for Child Care
MAR 19	Welfare	Shout it from the Rooftops: Welfare Reform Surpassed All Expectations
MAR 15	Campaign Finance	The Campaign Finance "Reform" Bill: Prohibiting "Electioneering Communications" Means Imposing Political Censorship
MAR 14	Defense	Ballistic Missile Threat Persists: What the National Intelligence Estimate Really Says . . . and Means
MAR 7	Defense	CBO Made to Answer the Wrong Question: Democrat-Requested CBO Report on Missile Defense Costs: Misleading
MAR 1	Election Reform	Defense of 'Signature System' Flops: "No Vote Fraud in New York" Claim Inconsistent with Media Reports
February
Date	Issue	Title
FEB 26	Election Reform	Reform in Election Reform Bill Threatened: Schumer Amendment Assaults Bill's Anti-fraud Provisions
FEB 13	Education	No Substitute for Local Control: California Study Sees No Relationship Between Reduced Class Size and Improved Test Scores
FEB 12	Economy; Budget; Taxes	Deconstructing Daschle #2: What Ate the Surplus? The Bad Economy and Higher Spending - Not Tax Cuts
FEB 11	Economy; Labor	Senator Kyl is Right: UI Extension is an Unlikely Economic Stimulus
FEB 8	Economy	Who Killed Stimulus? Ask Them: "Daschle Shelves Stimulus Package"
FEB 4	Health Care	Five Reasons to Expand Medical Savings Accounts
FEB 4	Health Care	The Craig-Torricelli Health Security Amendment: Expand Eligibility for Archer MSAs
January
Date	Issue	Title
JAN 30	Defense	Leaving the ABM Treaty, Deploying Missile Defenses: President Bush and Americans See Eye to Eye on Missile Defense
JAN 30	Technology	Allard-Hatch Amendment Also Will Raise Wages: Senate Soon to Consider Permanent Extension of the R&D Tax Credit
JAN 30	Health Care	Five Years Later. . . Archer MSAs Are a Resounding Success
JAN 29	Labor; Commerce	The Economic Situation Facing Employers
JAN 17	Taxes	Deconstructing Daschle #1: Do Tax Cuts Cause Higher Interest Rates? No!