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Occupy Occupy D.C., Day 10: Something Everyone Can Agree Upon

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There was no acrimony on Freedom Plaza today as the left and right agreed on at least one thing: bailouts are bad policy. Members of the National Center’s “Occupy Occupy D.C.” street team’s noontime protest urged the government not to ...
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Occupy Occupy D.C. Activists Call on Congress to Conduct Oversight Hearings into EPA Grantmaking

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Washington, D.C. - "Occupy Occupy D.C." activists will gather just steps from the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency at noon on Friday, February 24 to demand that Congress hold oversight hearings about possibly politicized grants made by the federal ...
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Occupy Occupy D.C., Day 7: Tokenism

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Project 21 spokesman Bob Parks showed up today at Freedom Plaza on Wednesday as part of the National Center’s “Occupy Occupy D.C.” events to talk to members of the Occupy D.C. encampment about why, as a black man, he is ...
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Congress Asked to Hold Oversight Hearings to Review Possibly Politicized EPA Grants

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Oversight Hearing Should Review Objectivity of Grant Recipients, Goals and Appropriate Funding Level Washington, D.C. - The National Center for Public Policy Research is today calling on Congress to hold a series of oversight hearings over possibly-politicized grants made by ...
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Senator Inhofe Acts to Stop EPA’s Job-Killing Utility MACT Regulation by Using the Congressional Review Act

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Democrats from Coal Dependent States Should Join Inhofe's Effort to Protect Constituents from Skyrocketing Electricity Prices, says National Center for Public Policy Research Washington, D.C. - Policy experts from the National Center for Public Policy Research are urging bipartisan support ...
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Occupy Occupy D.C. — “Causing a Commotion”

It wasn’t a traffic jam on Pennsylvania Avenue, just unhappy taxpayers. Today’s “Occupy Occupy D.C.” activity engaged and enlisted the support of D.C. motorists unhappy with paying even more of their alleged “fair share” under Obama Administration tax policy.  In ...
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Occupy Occupy D.C.’s Dark Side

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Despite having two black conservative speakers on the first day of the “Occupy Occupy D.C.” events, at least one of the regulars at the existing encampment on Freedom Plaza has accused the National Center was monochromatic in nature.  He obviously ...
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Occupy Occupy D.C. Gets Noisy

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Join the National Center’s “Occupy Occupy D.C.” team on Tuesday the 21st as it retakes Washington, D.C.’s Freedom Plaza yet again — this time to enlist the support of D.C. drivers in sending a message to our leaders about high ...
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“Don’t Make Us Pay Your Debts!,” Children Plead

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Occupy Occupy DC Street Theatre Set for Friday in Freedom Plaza Washington, D.C. - Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., home to an Occupy D.C. encampment since September, on Friday, February 17 will be the scene of a street theatre designed ...
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Occupy Occupy D.C., Day 5: Imprisoned by Debt

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Won’t someone think of the children!? Kate and Chris — just 12 and 11 years old, respectively — arrived at Freedom Plaza with the shackles of tens of thousands of dollars in debt encumbering them.  They don’t have a gambling ...
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