Year: 2006

Newsletter: National Center in the News Newsletter Winter 2006

Message from David and Amy Ridenour If success can be measured by how much one drives the liberals up a wall… …our programs are very successful indeed. In recent months, your National Center for Public Policy Research has been attacked ...
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Talking Points on Social Security: Trust Fund? What Trust Fund?

Americans may believe that when they pay their Social Security taxes, the federal government sets that money aside to finance their public pension benefits. Don't bet on it. In fact, Uncle Sam immediately pays most of that money to today's ...
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Talking Points on Social Security: Democrats for Personal Retirement Accounts

President Bush has encountered nearly unanimous opposition from Democrats on Capitol Hill who reject his plan to allow Americans to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in personal retirement accounts. However, some Democrats have embraced this idea in ...
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Talking Points on Social Security: Ed Crane’s Advice

Ed Crane, president of the free-market Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. has advocated Personal Retirement Accounts (PRAs) since the 1980s. Crane calls President Bush "heroically bold" for selling Social Security reform across the country. "But it seems to me he's ...
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Panel Discussion: The Endangered Species Act: Why Protecting Property Rights Is Good For Landowners And Species

A Capitol Hill Briefing on Monday, March 27 noon - 1:30 385 Russell Senate Office Building Open to the public Participants include: Terrence Scanlon President, Capital Research Center Introduction David Hogberg Executive Director, Greenwatch Capital Research Center Topic: Opening Remarks ...
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Earth Day Information Center: Three Things to Know About… Global Warming, Endangered Species, ANWR, Wetlands and Pollution

1.  There is no consensus among scientists that man is causing the Earth to get appreciably warmer.  In fact, the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) received signatures from over 17,100 basic and applied American scientists -- two-thirds with ...
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Earth Day Information Center: Environmental Progress

Air Quality:  Between 1993 and 2002, aggregate emissions of the six principle pollutants (nitrogen dioxide, ozone, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, carbon monoxide and lead) decreased 19 percent.1 Volatile organic compound emissions from cars and trucks have fallen 73.8 percent since ...
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Earth Day Information Center: Quotes About the Environment

"Using less wood is logically inconsistent with reducing C02 emissions on this planet. So the solution is to grow more trees and use more wood.  And the public is being told, unfortunately, the opposite by many people -- and they're ...
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Earth Day Information Center Cites Environmental Progress

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Washington, D.C. - Although many environmental organizations will strain to find the black lining in the silver cloud of environmental progress on the occasion of Earth Day, the Earth Day Information Center, a project of The National Center for Public ...
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House Hearing Finds Approval for Health Security Accounts, With Some Dissent

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Our David Hogberg attends a House hearing on Health Savings Accounts, and comes away with a few observations: A good hearing on HSAs took place Wednesday before the House Ways and Means Committee, with CEOs from various businesses, such as ...
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