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What Senator John Ashcroft’s Working Americans Wage Restoration Act Would Do

WORKING AMERICANS WAGE RESTORATION ACT PPROPOSED BY SENATOR JOHN ASHCROFT This proposal would provide an above the line deduction for the employee share of the Social Security portion of the FICA tax and the SECA tax. In calculating their income ...
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Key Republican Subverts Reform of Legal Services

National Legal and Policy Center 8321 Old Courthouse Road -- Suite 270 -- Vienna, Virginia 22182 Main Office 703-847-3060 -- FAX 703-448-8341 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 28,1997 CONTACT: Michael J. Nelson 703-734-2322 Rep. Fox Subverts Key Congressional Reform WASHINGTON, D.C ...
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Steve Forbes Says “Seize the High Ground on Health Care!”

MEMORANDUM BY STEVE FORBES March 27, 1997 TO: REPUBLICAN OFFICIALS AND CONSERVATIVE LEADERS FROM: STEVE FORBES, HONORARY CHAIRMAN, AMERICANS FOR HOPE, GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY SUBJECT: SEIZING THE HIGH GROUND ON HEALTH CARE The GOP is about to be out-flanked again, ...
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House Majority Leader Signals Intentions on the National Endowment for the Arts

Letter from House Majority Leader to the NEA Background: The office of the House Majority Leader released this letter on March 26, 1997. During the 104th Congress moderate and conservative Republican Members of Congress made an agreement to phase out ...
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The Way Things Ought to Be – Not! An Update on the Case of the Boy Who Was Forbidden to Read Limbaugh in School

This Rutherford Institute March 1997 press release brings the public up-to-date on what happened to the little boy in Virginia who was forbidden to read Rush Limbaugh's book during an open reading period in public school. THE RUTHERFORD INSTITUTE March ...
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Steve Forbes Says: Act Like a Majority!

TO: REPUBLICAN OFFICIALS AND CONSERVATIVE LEADERS FROM: STEVE FORBES, HONORARY CHAIRMAN, AMERICANS FOR HOPE, GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY SUBJECT: ACT LIKE A MAJORITY Congressional Republicans nearly destroyed their party this week by effectively giving up the fight for tax cuts and ...
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Speech by Project 21 Advisory Committee Chairman at a Press Conference on the Estate Tax – March 1997

For Release: March 3, 1997 Contact: Arturo Silva at 202/543-4110 or [email protected] Project 21 Chairman Edmund Peterson's Statement on the Repeal of the Estate Tax: Leader of African-American Group Condemns Death TaxI'm not here today to endorse any legislation. Project ...
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Religion Equals Sex? Government Agency Considers Religous Symbols Equivalent to Sexually-Suggestive Items

The following Internal Revenue Service Memorandum shows once again how many in the government have confused "freedom from religion" with"freedom of religion." In this case, the government seems also to confuse the role of religious symbols such as Crosses or ...
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What Does the Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act Do?

THE ASSISTED SUICIDE FUNDING RESTRICTION ACT OF 1997 Introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives as HR 1003 by Reps. Ralph Hall (D-TX), Dave Weldon (R-FL) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) Introduced in the U.S. Senate as S. 304 by Senators ...
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The Working Families Protection Act (H.R. 1) — What It Does

What the The Working Families Flexibility Act (H.R. 1) Would Do* As working men and women find it increasingly difficult to balance work and family responsibilities, their employers are often hampered by outdated federal law in their attempts to accomodate ...
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