Citizens’ Letter on the Chemical Weapons Treaty

Letter to Senators Signed by Citizens Organizations on the Chemical Weapons TreatyThis is the letter to the U.S. Senate signed by citizens and representatives of citizens organizations representing hundreds of thousands of people concerned about provisions of the Chemical Weapons ...
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The Case Against the Chemical Weapons Convention

The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) purports to be a 1) global, 2) effective and 3) verifiable ban on chemical weapons. In fact, it is none of these and many believe it should be rejected by the Senate. First, many dangerous ...
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How Many Days Did the American Worker Work for the Government in 1996?

How Many Days Did the American Worker Work for the Government in 1996? If you are a typical American worker, in 1996, you worked 184.6 days for government taxes and regulations. Specifically: 51.2 days for state and local taxes and ...
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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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Does Speaker Gingrich Lack the Courage To Eliminate Racial Preferences? by Ryan Sager

National Policy Analysis #167 /
"Repeal Affirmative Action Now!" screamed the headline of a recent article by Ward Connerly, the man primarily responsible for California's passage of the controversial Proposition 209, which ended racial preferences state-wide. Connerly argues that now is the perfect time for ...
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Sacrificing Manhood to Embrace Victimhood – April 1997

by Michael Sharp (Michael Sharp, a member of the national Advisory Council of the African-American leadership group Project 21, is a freelance writer and hydrogen plant operator in Freemont, Ohio.) A New Visions Commentary paper published April 1997 by The ...
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Funding Ebonics Isn’t A New Idea, It’s Just A Bad One, by C. Mason Weaver

Project 21 Commentary /
by C. Mason Weaver (C. Mason Weaver, a member of the national Advisory Committee of the African-American leadership group Project 21, is President of The Committee to Restore America located in Oceanside, California.) A New Visions Commentary paper published April ...
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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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