Author: The National Center

Regarding Affirmative Action: It’s Higher Standards, Higher Expectations that Guarantee a Better Future, by Faye Anderson

Project 21 Commentary /
by Faye Anderson (Faye Anderson, a member of the national Advisory Committee of the African-American leadership group Project 21, is President of the Douglass Policy Institute, a tax-exempt public policy education and research organization.)A New Visions Commentary paper published April 1997 ...
READ MORE

Text of the Proposed Religious Freedom Constitutional Amendment

Rep. Ernest Istook (R-OK) is introducing, with approximately 80 co-sponsors, an amendment to the U.S. Constitution designed to protect religious freedom. The amendment reads: "To secure the people's right to acknowledge God according to the dictates of conscience: The people's ...
READ MORE

New Earth Day Information Center Makes Experts on Environmental Topics Available to the Media

MEDIA ADVISORY Contact: David Ridenour (202) 507-6398 or [email protected] For Immediate Release: April 18, 1997 Earth Day Information Center Launches Free Earth Day Interview Locator Service; Over 140 Scientists, Economists, and Public Policy Experts in 27 Fields of Expertise Available ...
READ MORE

What the Camp-Kennelly Adoption Promotion Act (HR 867) of 1997 Does

Overview of the Camp-Kennelly Adoption Promotion Act of 1997 H.R. 867, as AmendedApril 17,1997Section 1. Short Title; Table of Contents Section 2. Clarification of the Reasonable Efforts Requirement States would not be required to make reasonable efforts to reunify a ...
READ MORE

What the The Child Abuse and Neglect Enforcement Act (CANEA) Does

The following information has been provided by the office of Rep. Susan Molinari (R-NY). At the time this document was prepared for this web site (April 22) the legislation had no bill number, as it had not yet been introduced ...
READ MORE

What the Budget Process Reform Act (H.R. 1372) Would Do

This file contains a press release, a bill summary, and a more lengthy explanation of the legislation's contents supplied by its sponsor, Rep. Chris Cox (R-CA). For more information about the legislation, contact Paul Wilkinson of Rep. Cox's staff at ...
READ MORE

Forbes Lauches Radio Campaign Against Chemical Weapons Treaty

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 13, 1997 AMERICANS FOR HOPE, GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY LAUNCHES RADIO CAMPAIGN TO BLOCK PASSAGE OF DANGEROUS CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION Steve Forbes urges treaty's defeat on CBS's "Face the Nation" (Bedminster, New Jersey) Steve Forbes, Editor in ...
READ MORE

Speech of National Center Vice President David Ridenour at a Press Conference on the Tax-Deductibility of Payroll Taxes

Statement of David Ridenour Vice President Press Conference on Making the Payroll Tax Tax-Deductible U.S. Senate "Swamp" April 11, 1997 This proposal is an important step in the direction of tax fairness. Since corporations can deduct their half of the ...
READ MORE

Defeat the Chemical Weapons Treaty

by Phyllis Schlafly Did we elect a Republican Senate last November or didn't we? We'll find out when the Senate votes on the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). That will be the first important test of whether or not Republican Senators ...
READ MORE

Repealing Rent Control in New York City

News Release from The Small Property Owner April 4,1997 Contact: F. Patricia Callahan, 202/244-6277 or [email protected]. AASPO web site: www.smallpropertyowner.com/~aaspo Repealing Rent Control in New York City "A city with no property rights is a city with no future." Jeff ...
READ MORE

The National Center for Public Policy Research is a communications and research foundation supportive of a strong national defense and dedicated to providing free market solutions to today’s public policy problems. We believe that the principles of a free market, individual liberty and personal responsibility provide the greatest hope for meeting the challenges facing America in the 21st century.