Year: 2007

How About Disclosing Conflicts of Interest?

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I notice that Senator Barbara Boxer's press release, reprinted below, does not include a conflict of interest disclosure by the businesses that signed this agreement, detailing their financial interest in passage of the legislation: Boxer Hails Landmark Agreement By Industry, ...
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Far Be It for Me to Disagree with Jim Webb…

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...but when he says "the settlement of Jamestown... marked the first step in the long journey that has made us the greatest and most prosperous nation on earth," he's forgetting that the first European settlement in what would become the ...
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On the State of the Union

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We issued a couple of press releases on the President's State of the Union speech tonight. This one gives thumbs up to the President's health care proposals, while this one gives thumbs down to the President's call for increasing fuel ...
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Citing Safety Concerns, National Center for Public Policy Research Calls on President Bush to Reconsider his Call to Increase Fuel Economy Standards

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Washington, D.C. - The National Center for Public Policy Research calls on President Bush to reconsider his call for an increase in Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards, as he apparently called for in his State of the Union ...
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‘The Big Ripoff’ Comes To Health Insurance

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After seeing the Washington Post's "Universal Health Coverage Attracts New Support; Onetime Foes Become Unlikely Advocates, Citing Rising Costs and Tougher Access" by Christopher Lee in Monday's Washington Post, I asked the National Center for Public Policy Research's health care ...
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National Center for Public Policy Research Applauds President Bush’s State of the Union Health Care Proposal

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Washington, D.C. - The National Center for Public Policy Research applauds President Bush's State of the Union proposal to change the tax treatment of health insurance. Under current law, only employers receive a tax deduction for providing health insurance to ...
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On Government Health Care: Dead Men Tell No Tales

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Our David Hogberg has reviewed a New York Times column on universal health care and -- surprise -- found it wanting. An excerpt: [Paul Krugman says], Some say that we can't afford universal health care, even though every year lack ...
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Black Activists Outraged Over Liberal Merger of Abortion and Civil Rights

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Inclusion of Planned Parenthood in a self-described civil rights coalition has outraged members of the black leadership network Project 21, as Planned Parenthood advocates and provides abortions - particularly in the black community. "How can a civil rights group that ...
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2009-2017: Number of Social Security Recipients to Grow Five Times Faster than the Number of Workers

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Willisms says: "From 2009-2017, the number of retirees receiving Social Security will grow by 23.9%, the number of workers by only 4.3%. In other words, the number of retirees will grow more than five times faster than the worker population." ...
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The Committee on World Travel and Junkets

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I had been planning to post on Rep. John Dingell's response to the creation of a new House committee on global warming, but Pat Cleary did it so well, I'll just recommend his post ...
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