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| 1998 Policy Papers | ||
| December | ||
| Date | Issue | Title |
|---|---|---|
| DEC 15 | Social Security | When is Private Investment Not Private Investment? -- When Government's the One Investing (Social Security Money) |
| November | ||
| Date | Issue | Title |
| NOV 18 | Social Security | Could Congress' Retirement Plan Serve as a Model to Reform Social Security? |
| October | ||
| Date | Issue | Title |
| OCT 22 | Clinton Administration | President Proclaims National "Character Counts" Week -- What's next? National Irony Week? |
| OCT 20 | Clinton Administration | "Dollar Bill" Clinton -- Clinton and Gore Host Fundraisers Galore Amidst Sea of Indictments |
| OCT 20 | Republican Congress | A Dictionary of the Senate's Major Accomplishments During the 105th Congress |
| OCT 16 | Defense | Republican Congress Reverses Clinton Attack on Defense Spending |
| OCT 16 | Clinton Administration | Clinton Set to Double Presidential Travel Record -- He's Already Set Records for Trips, Days, and Pace of Overseas Travel |
| OCT 9 | Drugs | Drug Disaster -- Under Clinton, the Drug Problem's Getting Worse and Worse |
| OCT 7 | Clinton Administration | Doing Time for Perjury in a Civil Case |
| OCT 6 | Clinton Administration | In His Own Words -- President Clinton's Legacy on Truth |
| OCT 5 | Clinton Administration | Can Witnesses in Civil Cases Lie Under Oath With Impunity When Asked About Sex? |
| OCT 5 | Agriculture | The Farm Situation and the Republican Relief Plan -- $4 Billion in Aid Contained in Agriculture Spending Conference Report |
| OCT 2 | Clinton Administration | Bill Clinton: On the Road and Off the Job -- AWOL President is America's Most Frequent Flyer |
| OCT 1 | Social Security | This President and Social Security -- When Will He Tell the Truth about His Actions? |
| September | ||
| Date | Issue | Title |
| SEP 30 | Gun Control | The Administration's Brady Expansion Act -- Bent on Ignoring Intent |
| SEP 30 | Gun Control | Of Criminals and Guns -- The 'Project Exile' Solution |
| SEP 29 | Immigration ; Labor | Senate Likely to Pass House-passed Temporary Foreign Worker Bill |
| SEP 29 | Clinton Administration | What is at Stake in Impeachment? -- Bill Clinton's Sworn Testimony as a Model for Others |
| SEP 24 | Clinton Administration | "It's the Perjury, Stupid!" -- Sexual Misconduct Is Not the Issue |
| SEP 23 | Clinton Administration | A "Monica" Market? -- Do the President's Problems Threaten the Financial Markets? |
| SEP 17 | Constitution | Joseph Story on the Role of Senators In an Impeachment Trial |
| SEP 16 | Constitution | The Signing of the Constitution -- September 17, 1787 |
| SEP 15 | Abortion | Clinton Claims on Partial-Birth Abortion Still Not True -- Not Even 'Legally Accurate' |
| SEP 10 | Health Care | Healthcare: The Difference is Access -- Official Estimates Show Huge Disparity Between GOP, Kennedy HMO Bills |
| SEP 10 | Clinton Administration | Did President Clinton and Vice President Gore Violate Federal Election Laws? |
| SEP 9 | Campaign Reform | Campaign 'Reform' & the Average Joe -- Who Benefits From Free Speech? |
| SEP 9 | Labor | Hiking the Minimum Wage Amounts to Bad Economics and Cynical Politics |
| SEP 3 | Foreign Affairs | Recent Events Prove the Need for National Missile Defense |
| August | ||
| Date | Issue | Title |
| AUG 31 | Foreign Affairs | Clinton Administration Wants the Senate to Fund an Unratified Treaty |
| AUG 12 | Foreign Affairs | Bosnia II: The Clinton Administration Sets Course for NATO Intervention in Kosovo -- Goals, Potential Costs, and Motives All Uncertain |
| July | ||
| Date | Issue | Title |
| JUL 31 | Healthcare | S. 2330 -- Patient's Bill of Rights Act |
| JUL 31 | Healthcare | The Costs of Kennedy-Care -- Employers and Employees Will Pay Billions More |
| JUL 31 | Agriculture | Senate Action on Agriculture Issues in the 105th Congress: On the Right Track |
| JUL 30 | Healthcare | Democrats Won't Take "Yes" for an Answer -- Minority Once Again Rejects Republican Offer to Consider Healthcare Bill |
| JUL 30 | Republican Congress | Accomplishments of the 105th Congress |
| JUL 30 | Republican Congress | The Bright Line -- Defining the Differences Between Republicans and Democrats |
| JUL 30 | Republican Congress | The Politics of Stonewalling -- Senate Democrats Put Special Interests First |
| JUL 30 | Welfare | The Success of Welfare Reform -- Welfare Reform Continues to Promote Work and Independence |
| JUL 30 | Agriculture | Agricultural Job Opportunity Benefits and Security Act -- Streamlining Regulations So American Farmers Win |
| JUL 30 | Clinton Administration | President Clinton and Executive Orders -- It's Not the Number of Orders, It's the Weight of Government |
| JUL 30 | Clinton Administration | Bill Clinton, On the Road Again...and Again...and Again -- He's Just a Travelin' Man |
| JUL 30 | Republican Congress | Accomplishments of the 105th Congress |
| JUL 29 | Education | Special Interests Defeat Education Reforms that Threatened The Status Quo -- President Clinton Vetoes Education Savings and School Excellence Act |
| JUL 28 | Clinton Administration | Courts Insist Clinton White House Obey Law -- Administration Has Lost Every Case Claiming Privilege |
| JUL 22 | Healthcare | Senate GOP Healthcare Task Force |
| JUL 21 | Healthcare | Patients' Rights: Republicans Target the Problem; Democrats Target the Politics |
| JUL 21 | Constitution | Clinton's False Step on Federalism -- States, Localities Call on President to Withdraw Executive Order |
| JUL 20 | Healthcare | Republican Plan Gives Patients a Bill of Rights -- Democrats Give Lawyers the Right to Bill |
| JUL 17 | Executive Privilege | Presidential Privileges Versus History -- The White House is on the Wrong Side of History |
| JUL 15 | Healthcare | Clinton-Care and Kennedy-Care: Deja Vu All Over Again -- Same Supporters, Same Goals, Same Principles |
| JUL 14 | Agriculture | FAIR Act: The Best Way to Enter the New Century -- Democrats Aim to Derail 1996 Farm Bill's Market-Driven Policies |
| JUL 10 | Healthcare | New York Leads the Way on Partner Notification Law, Why Won't Kennedy Follow? -- Kennedy Managed Care Bill Ought to Incorporate an AIDS Disclosure Provision in a "New York Minute" |
| JUL 8 | Healthcare | The Kennedy-Daschle Bill: Healthcare Reform in Reverse -- Closing the Door on Many Americans Seeking (or Seeking to Retain) Insurance |
| June | ||
| Date | Issue | Title |
| JUN 23 | Independence Day | The Declaration and Its Heroic Signers -- They Pledged Their Lives, Fortunes, Sacred Honor |
| JUN 16 | Healthcare | Clinton Ignores His Own Commission in Pursuit of Healthcare Mandates -- GAO Underscores Folly of Legislating Excessive Healthcare Mandates |
| JUN 16 | Gun Control | Gunowners Following the Law Caught in the Administration's Crossfire |
| JUN 12 | Commerce | Tobacco Bill Faces Major Revenue Shortfall |
| JUN 10 | Environment [Global Warming] | Nonpartisan GAO Blasts Administration's Kyoto Blueprint -- Congressional Audit Reveals Fundamental Omissions in Greenhouse Gas Plan |
| JUN 9 | Drugs | For Today's Teens, Drug Threat Dwarfs Tobacco -- Kids Respond to this Administration's Wink-and-a-Nod |
| JUN 1 | Commerce; Environment | Tobacco Bill's "Secondhand Smoke" Provisions: An Unfunded Mandate on State and Local Governments and on Private Business |
| May | ||
| Date | Issue | Title |
| MAY 22 | Commerce; Judiciary | Free Speech and Tobacco Advertising -- Why Carrots are Constitutional and Sticks are Not |
| MAY 22 | Commerce | Revenue Effect of "Commerce-2" -- Revenues Raised under Revised Tobacco Bill Remain Substantial |
| MAY 22 | Commerce | Spending in the "Commerce-2" Tobacco Bill Substitute -- Spending Now Linked Directly to Revenues |
| MAY 19 | Agriculture | A Look at the Lugar Tobacco Buyout Proposal Contained in the Tobacco Bill |
| MAY 14 | Commerce | S. 1415 Creates a New State Retail Inspection Regime |
| MAY 14 | Commerce | Estimating the Spending in S. 1415, the Tobacco Bill -- RPC Tabulates the Spending Provisions in Commerce-Reported Bill |
| MAY 11 | Commerce | The Tobacco Bill and New Government -- A Snapshot of What's Brand New in the Tobacco Bill |
| MAY 8 | Commerce | Estimating the Revenues of S. 1415, the Tobacco Bill -- RPC Addresses Reasons for Conflicting Estimates, and Offers its Own Estimates |
| MAY 6 | Labor | Clinton, Kennedy Would 'Lift Families Out of Poverty' With 2-Cent-per-Hour Raise -- CRS Exposes Result of Back-to-Back Kennedy Minimum Wage Hikes |
| MAY 4 | Tax ; Labor | The Ethics Exemption in the IRS Reform Bill -- Union Rep Exempted from Regular Criminal Ethics Laws |
| MAY 1 | Labor | The Link Between Minimum Wage Hikes and Inflation -- Will Clinton\Kennedy Wage Hikes Return U.S. Economy to Carter Years? |
| MAY 1 | Tax | Minority Party Assails Exposure of IRS Abuse |
| April | ||
| Date | Issue | Title |
| APR 30 | Tax ; IRS | IRS Reform Talking Points |
| APR 29 | Labor | Partisan Labor Lawyer Nominated for NLRB General Counsel -- Clinton Nominates Laurence Cohen to Labor Relations Board |
| APR 22 | Environment ; Global Warming | The Gang That Couldn't Talk Straight Rides Again -- White House Contradicts its Own Estimate of Kyoto Treaty's Costs |
| APR 22 | Drugs | Administration Endorses Free Needles for Addicts -- Shalala Makes First Step Toward Subsidies and Away from Strong Anti-Drug Stance |
| APR 21 | Environment ; Global Warming | Kyoto Protocol: Bad Policy Based on Bad Science |
| APR 20 | Education | Education's Old Guard Seeks to Keep Out Parents and Communities |
| APR 3 | Budget ; Defense | Making U.S. Forces Do More With Less -- The FY 1999 Defense Budget |
| March | ||
| Date | Topic | Title |
| MAR 31 | Budget ; Veterans | Talking Points on the President's VA Offset |
| MAR 16 | Education ; Taxes | Kindergarten to College: Tax-Free Education Savings -- Coverdell Education Accounts Benefit Low- and Middle-Income Families |
| MAR 16 | Gun Control | Clinton's New Gun Ban -- Administration Set to Trespass on Congressional Authority |
| MAR 13 | Judiciary;Executive Nominations | Nomination of Frederica Massiah-Jackson -- Senate to Vote Tuesday on Controversial Nominee |
| MAR 10 | Defense | White House Already Spending Budget Surplus...And Not for Social Security -- Nearly $2 Billion of the Year's Surplus to Fund Operations in Bosnia and Iraq |
| MAR 5 | Civil Rights ;Transportation | Adarand, ISTEA and the McConnell Amendment |
| MAR 4 | Taxes | Clinton's Freudian Slip is Showing Again -- Why is This President Attacking Tax Reform?" |
| MAR 3 | Civil Rights ;Transportation | The "Public Adarand" and the "Private Adarand" |
| February | ||
| Date | Topic | Title |
| FEB 25 | Campaign Reform | Who is the First Amendment For? -- A Look at Joe Anchorman, John Q. Public, and the Constitution |
| FEB 19 | Social Security | What This President Isn't Telling You About Social Security |
| FEB 18 | Drugs | The Two Modern Eras of Drug Abuse -- "Just Say No" Versus "I Wish I Had Inhaled" |
| FEB 13 | Labor ; Taxes | It's Not the Minimum Wage, It's the Maximum Taxes -- Growth in Taxes Outstrips Wage Growth in Clinton Years |
| FEB 13 | Federal Government | Clinton's Creative Turn of a Phrase -- "We have the smallest government in 35 years", Oh Yeah? |
| FEB 11 | Medicare | Clinton Once More Risks Medicare for Politics -- President's Medicare Expansion Plan: Dishonest, Disingenuous |
| FEB 6 | Campaign Reform | Broncos & Packers, Senators & Representatives -- Are We Spending Too Much on Politics? |
| FEB 4 | Clinton Administration | 1998 Court Calendar for the "Most Ethical Administration in History" |
| FEB 2 | Budget | Clinton Breaks Budget Deal and His Word -- His Latest Budget Includes Billions in New Spending, New Taxes |
| January | ||
| Date | Topic | Title |
| JAN 30 | Healthcare ; Medicare | If at First You Don't Succeed -- Spirit of 'Clinton-Care' is Tried and Tried Again in New Initiatives |
| JAN 27 | State of the Union | Our Agenda: Faith in Family and Community |
| JAN 14 | Budget ; Tobacco | Clinton: Tom Sawyer II: Tells Us How to Spend Tobacco Revenues, Not How to Raise Them |
| JAN 9 | Social Security ; Medicare | President Clinton's New Year's Resolutions -- A Look at Clinton's Social Security, Medicare, and Welfare Initiatives |
| JAN 9 | Child Care | Managed Day Care Makes Its Debut -- Clinton Pushes One-Sided Federal Child Care Initiative |
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| October | ||
| Date | Issue | Title |
| OCT 8 | Federal Government | Highlights of the Conference Report to accompany H.R. 4104: Treasury and General Government Appropriations, FY 1999 |
| OCT 7 | Housing, Veterans, Environment |
Highlights of the Conference Report to accompany H.R. 4194 --Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations, FY 1999 |
| OCT 5 | Agriculture | Highlights of the Conference Report to accompany H.R. 4101--Agriculture Appropriations, FY 1999 |
| OCT 2 | Banking | H.R. 10 -- Financial Services Act of 1998 |
| OCT 1 | Interior | S. 1092 -- King Cove Health and Safety Act |
| OCT 1 | Internet ; Tax | S. 442 -- Internet Tax Freedom Act |
| September | ||
| Date | Issue | Title |
| SEP 28 | Education | Highlights of the Conference Report to accompany the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 (H.R. 6) |
| SEP 28 | Federal Government | S. 2176 -- The Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 |
| SEP 25 | Trade | S. 2400 -- Trade and Tariff Act of 1998 |
| SEP 24 | Transportation | S. 2279 — Wendell Ford National Air Transportation System Improvement Act |
| SEP 16 | Commerce | S. 2454 — Auto Choice Reform Act |
| SEP 14 | Labor | S. 1981, Truth in Employment Act (The "Anti-Salting" Bill) |
| SEP 3 | Child Custody | S. 1645 - Child Custody Protection Act |
| SEP 3 | Bankruptcy Reform | S. 1301 - Consumer Bankruptcy Reform Act |
| SEP 3 | Defense | S. 1873 - The American Missile Protection Act of 1998 |
| August | ||
| Date | Issue | Title |
| AUG 28 | Energy ; Environment | Highlights of Conference Report on the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Consent Act (H.R. 629) |
| AUG 28 | Interior | S. 2237 -- Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 1999 |
| July | ||
| Date | Issue | Title |
| JUL 31 | Healthcare | S. 2330 -- Patients' Bill of Rights Act |
| JUL 24 | Appropriations | S. 2333 - District of Columbia Appropriations Bill, FY 1999 |
| JUL 23 | Appropriations | H.R. 1151-- Credit Union Membership Access Act |
| JUL 23 | Appropriations | S. 2334 -- Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriation Bill, FY 1999 |
| JUL 23 | Appropriations | S. 2312 - Treasury and General Government Appropriation Bill, FY 1999 |
| JUL 22 | Appropriations | S. 2307 -- Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, FY 1999 |
| JUL 17 | Appropriations | S. 2260 -- Departments of Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill, FY 1999 |
| JUL 17 | Internet | S. 1619--Internet Filtering Systems |
| JUL 14 | Commerce | S. 1482 -- Commercial Distribution of Material Harmful to Minors on the World Wide Web |
| JUL 10 | Judiciary [Property Rights] | S. 2271 - The Property Rights Implementation Act of 1998 |
| JUL 7 | Education | S. 1882: Higher Education Act of 1998 |
| JUL 6 | Commerce ; Judiciary | S. 648: Product Liability Reform Act |
| JUL 2 | Veterans, Housing, Independent Agencies |
S. 2168: Departments of Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Bill, FY 1999 |
| June | ||
| Date | Issue | Title |
| JUN 26 | Intelligence | S. 2052: Intelligence Authorization Act, FY 1999 |
| JUN 25 | IRS | H.R. 2676:Highlights of IRS Reform Conference Report |
| JUN 23 | Legislative Branch | S. 2137:Legislative Branch Appropriations, 1999 |
| JUN 23 | Defense | S. 2132:Department of Defense Appropriations, 1999 |
| JUN 22 | Education | H.R. 2646 Conference ReportEducation Savings and School Excellence Act |
| JUN 19 | Military Construction | S. 2160:Military Construction Appropriations, 1999 |
| JUN 18 | Agriculture | S. 2159:Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill, 1999 |
| JUN 18 | Energy and Water | S. 2138:Energy and Water Development Appropriation Bill, 1999 |
| JUN 2 | Environment | H.R. 1270:Nuclear Waste Policy Act |
| May | ||
| Date | Issue | Title |
| MAY 21 | Commerce ; Health | Update to S. 1415:McCain Substitute to Tobacco Bill |
| MAY 20 | Foreign Affairs | H.R. 2709:Iran Missile Proliferation Sanctions Act of 1997 |
| MAY 14 | Health ; Commerce | S. 1415:National Tobacco Policy and Youth Smoking Reduction Act |
| MAY 13 | Defense | S. 2057:National Defense Authorization Act, FY 1999 |
| MAY 11 | Judiciary | S. 1260:The Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998 |
| MAY 11 | Immigration | S. 1723:The American Competitiveness Act |
| MAY 8 | Defense | S. 1873:The American Missile Protection Act of 1998 |
| MAY 8 | Commerce | S. 1618:Consumer Anti-Slamming Act |
| MAY 6 | Agriculture | Conference Report to S. 1150Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 |
| MAY 1 | Tax | H.R. 2676:Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 |
| MAY 1 | Labor | S. 1186:The Workforce Investment Partnership Act |
| April | ||
| Date | Issue | Title |
| APR 30 | Appropriations | Conference Report to H.R. 3579:Emergency Supplemental Appropriations, FY 1998 |
| APR 27 | Foreign Affairs | Treaty Doc. 105-36:NATO Expansion to Admit Poland, Hungary, Czech RepublicUpdate on Possible Amendments |
| APR 22 | Foreign Affairs | Conference Report to H.R. 1757:Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act |
| March | ||
| Date | Topic | Title |
| MAR 26 | Budget | S. Con. Res. 86 -- Concurrent Budget Resolution, FY 1999 |
| MAR 24 | Foreign Affairs ;Drugs | S.J. Res. 42 -- Disapproving the President's Certification Under Section 490(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act("Mexican Drug Decertification") |
| MAR 20 | Appropriations | S. 1768 -- Emergency Supplemental Appropriations, FY98 |
| MAR 19 | Environment | S. 270 -- Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Consent Act |
| MAR 18 | Foreign Affairs | Treaty Doc. 105-36 -- Protocols to the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949 on Accession of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic |
| MAR 17 | Trade ; Shipping | S. 414 -- Ocean Shipping Reform Act |
| MAR 12 | Education ; Taxes | S. 1133 -- Parent and Student Savings Account PLUS Act |
| MAR 9 | Intelligence | S. 1668 -- The Disclosure to Congress Act of 1998 |
| February | ||
| Date | Topic | Title |
| FEB 26 | Transportation | S. 1173 -- Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) |
| FEB 23 | Campaign Reform | Campaign Reform Proposals |
| FEB 19 | Military Construction Appropriations | Overriding the Veto of H.R. 2631 -- FY98 Military Construction Line-Item Veto Disapproval Bill |
| FEB 5 | Bioethics | S. 1601 -- Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 1998 |
| January | ||
| Date | Topic | Title |
| JAN 28 | Airport Designation | S. 1297 -- Rename Washington National Airport the "Ronald Reagan National Airport" |
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