Year: 2009

Maiden Speech of a New Senator: Will History Erase Our Debt?

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Freshman Senator Mike Johanns (R), a former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and Nebraska governor elected last November, gave his maiden speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate just now on the topic of President Obama's controversial stimulus plan. A ...
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$8.6 Billion of Stimulus Plan Earmarked for Pet Causes of Environmental Activists Should Be Jettisoned

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Washington, D.C. - At least $8.6 billion of President Obama’s proposed $1.2 trillion stimulus plan is meant to fund dubious special interest policy initiatives of environmental activists and should immediately be jettisoned, says Deneen Borelli, full-time Fellow with the Project ...
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Another Government-Run Medicine Cautionary Tale: Man Dies After 14 Hospitals Refuse to Admit Him

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From FOXNews.com, another cautionary tale about the perils of the shortages that accompany government-run medicine in every nation that ha tried it: Japanese Man Dies After 14 Hospitals Refuse to Admit Him A 69-year-old Japanese man injured in a traffic ...
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Did Secretary of Labor Nominee Rep. Hilda Solis Break Multiple House Rules?

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Hans A. von Spakovsky, writing for the Weekly Standard, raises uncomfortable questions for Secretary of Labor nominee Rep. Hilda Solis. Hat tip: Rory Cooper in The Foundry ...
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Free Enterprise Project Director Tom Borelli on the Stimulus Plan

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Statement by Tom Borelli, PhD, director of the Free Enterprise Project of the National Center for Public Policy Research on the stimulus plan: The adage 'haste makes waste' applies to Obama's massive stimulus plan. In response to our economic crisis ...
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Drop the Green Earmarks from the “Stimulus”

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Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli says the green earmarks in the so-called "stimulus" plan are wasteful and should be dropped: $8.6 Billion of Stimulus Plan Earmarked for Pet Causes of Environmental Activists Should Be JettisonedContact: David Almasi at (202) 543-4110 ...
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Open Letter to the U.S. Senate on the So-Called Stimulus

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Along with other individuals from a variety of organizations, I signed the following letter, distributed today to members on the Senate, urging them not to spend hundreds of billions of dollars in a so-called stimulus plan. The plan has been ...
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Black Organization’s Leader Slams So-Called Stimulus Earmarks

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Washington, D.C. - Responding to GAO estimates that the full cost of the so-called "stimulus" legislation under consideration now on Capitol Hill could reach $1.2 trillion over 10 years, Chairman Mychal Massie of the Project 21 black leadership network is ...
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Obama, Durbin and Kerry Call for Investigations of Alleged Tax Cheating

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Remember the ultra-mini Blackwater tax scandal of 2007? In it, liberal Senators Barack Obama, John Kerry and Dick Durbin kicked up a fuss because Blackwater treated security guards it employed in Iraq as independent contractors (making them responsible for paying ...
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Federal Bailout Plan Poses Risks to States and Localities

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Washington, D.C. - Columnist and spokesman Ak'Bar Shabazz of the Project 21 national black leadership network is warning that proposed federal bailout efforts currently under debate in the U.S. Senate pose a risk to the independence of states and localities ...
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