Year: 2003

Who Says Congressional Trips Are Just Vacations?

An observation from our executive director, David Almasi: Who said congressional delegations are just vacations? It seems one CODEL really made a big difference, for now. In a surprising policy reversal, Congressman Sheila Jackson-Lee, a hardened Bush critic, decided American ...

Medicare: It Needs Reform for More Reasons Than Most People Realize

Ed Haislmaier writes in this new National Policy Analysis #498 paper, Medicare: It's About the Future, Stupid! that Medicare's current structure has a lot more problems than just the one we keep hearing about (the little matter of what in ...

And Then There Was One

More on the story of Congressman Jim Moran from NCPPR executive director David W. Almasi: And then there was one. Yet another of Congressman Jim Moran's announced primary opponents has dropped out of the race. Former Fairfax County Board Chairman ...

“We’re Only Filibustering Four”

Another observation from NCPPR executive director David Almasi: The liberal obstructionists in the Senate recently changed their battle cry from one of a crusade to stop the ‘right wing’ from packing the courts to a defensive "we're only filibustering four." ...

Project 21 Press Release: Black Group Joins Senate Majority in Seeking Timely Votes on Judicial Nominees – November 2003

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Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 applaud the majority of U.S. senators seeking an end to obstructionist tactics that are keeping many federal judicial nominees from receiving a timely vote on their nominations. To draw attention to this ...

Project 21 Press Release: Black Group Critical of Sharpton’s Civil Rights Flip-Flop

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Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 applaud the majority of U.S. senators seeking an end to obstructionist tactics that are keeping many federal judicial nominees from receiving a timely vote on their nominations. To draw attention to this ...

Project 21 Press Release: Black Group Joins Senate Majority in Seeking Timely Votes on Judicial Nominees

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Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 applaud the majority of U.S. senators seeking an end to obstructionist tactics that are keeping many federal judicial nominees from receiving a timely vote on their nominations. To draw attention to this ...

Project 21 Press Release: There Is No Black Liberal Majority

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Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 applaud the majority of U.S. senators seeking an end to obstructionist tactics that are keeping many federal judicial nominees from receiving a timely vote on their nominations. To draw attention to this ...

The Government Can’t Even Put Out a Fire

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There's a good bit of idiocy in this piece, which tries to tie forest fires to global warming. Environmentalists have a lot of gall. They oppose forest thinning and sensible management programs to reduce the chance of monster forest fires ...

Washington Post: WTO Upholds Ruling on U.S. Tariff

This WTO ruling against Bush's steel tariffs is said by the Washington Post to be bad for Bush politically, but it may not be. It may well remind voters in steel producing states that Bush tried to support them -- ...

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