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1997 Policy Papers
Date Issue Title
DEC 17 Medicare Clinton Medicare Provision Holds Seniors Hostage -- Seniors Soon to Experience Clinton's Health Care "Vision"
DEC 15 Civil Rights Bill Clinton, Bill Lann Lee, and Language -- Do Words Still Have Meaning?
DEC 12 Civil Rights Deference to Presidential Nominations -- Is the President Always Entitled to His Nominee?
DEC 8 Global Warming Gore Undermines U.S. Position To Promote Binding Treaty -- Krauthammer's Op-Ed Summarizes Gore's Intolerance Toward Doubters
DEC 2 Foreign Policy; IMF IMF Bailout for Korea Must Include Structural Reform of Trade Practices -- IMF "Austerity" Measures Aren't Enough
DEC 2 Global Warming The U.S. Should Not Sign an Agreement Based on Kyoto Proposals -- As Kyoto Global Climate Change Talks Begin, U.S. Team Seems Poised to Dangerous Compromising
NOV 13 Education Republicans Give Education Top Priority
NOV 13 105th Congress A Dictionary of the Senate's Major Accomplishments -- 105th Congress, First Session
NOV 13 105th Congress The GOP Congress: Making a Difference for America -- Republicans vs. Democrats in the 105th Congress: A Look at the Issues
NOV 13 Foster Care Congress Advances Adoption of Foster Care Children -- Foster Care Reform Bill Set to Become Law
NOV 7 Drug Abuse Clinton's Failing War On Drugs -- Drug Use By 8th Graders Up 56 Percent Since Clinton Took Office
NOV 5 Crime S. 10, the Juvenile Offender Act
NOV 5 Civil Rights Bill Lann Lee and Prop. 209 -- Senators Question Perspective of High-Ranking Justice Dept. Nominee
OCT 28 Education White House Rehashes Old Accounting Gimmick to Attack Education Bill -- Administration Flunks Third "R": 'Rithmetic
OCT 23 Global Warming Clinton/Gore Global Warming Proposal Would Force Huge Energy Price Hikes in 10 Years -- Proposal Hides an Iron Fist in a Green Velvet Glove
OCT 22 Energy ; Global Warming Clinton's "Think Globally, Tax Locally" Energy Plan -- 1997 Proposal Could Dwarf 1993 Costs
OCT 21 Global Warming Administration Expected to Defy Byrd/Hagel Resolution and to Sell Climate Change Treaty as Painless
OCT 21 Civil Rights Senate Leadership Files Supreme Court Brief in Piscataway, NJ Racial Preference Case
OCT 6 Transportation ; Highway Trust Fund Riding the Paper Tiger: The Highway Trust Fund "Surplus" -- Highways Not Historically Underfunded
OCT 2 Campaign Reform S. 25 Obliterates High Court's "Bright Line" Speech Protection -- Citizens' Groups Alarmed by McCain-Feingold
OCT 1 Campaign Reform McCain-Feingold's Beck Provision versus Paycheck Protection -- S. 25 Provides Neither Paycheck Protection Nor Beck Codification
SEP 26 Census Sampling in the 2000 Census -- Representative Democracy Depends on an ACCURATE Census
SEP 24 Health Care ; HMOs GAO Releases First Study of So-Called "Gag Rules" -- Study Casts Doubt of Impact on Doctor-Patient Relationship
SEP 23 Budget Liberals' Spending Threatens Balanced Budget -- Counting Chickens Before They Hatch
SEP 5 Campaign Reform How Campaign Reform Might Have Turned Out -- Thankfully, the Constitution Stands in the Way
SEP 3 Campaign Reform Congress Most Vulnerable Constitutionally When Regulating Speech -- How Much Campaign "Reform" Will the Constitution Tolerate?
SEP 2 Campaign Reform Does "Campaign Reform" Mean "Control" -- What is at Stake for the Left and the Right (and the Middle)
AUG 12 Budget ; Line-Item Veto President Uses Line-Item Veto -- What's Next?
JUL 31 Campaign Reform $135 of TRIM Brochures Brings FEC Lawsuit - Should Pamphleteers Be Licensed?
JUL 30 Environment ; Clean Air Act EPA Implies Free Ride for Clean Air, Especially for Farmers
JUL 23 Budget ; Taxes Administration's Own Analysis Shows No Tax Cut Explosion - Treasury Lied
JUL 23 Budget ; Line-Item Veto A 2-Page Primer for the Senate Side - The Line Item Veto Act
JUL 22 Health Care ; FDA Costs Go Up, Access Goes Down: What’s Wrong With this Picture? First, Fix What’s Wrong at FDA
JUL 22 Environment ; Global Warming Administration's Climate Change Plan is Fundamentally Flawed -- Byrd-Hagel "Global Warming" Resolution Provides Administration With A Needed Reality Check
JUL 17 Budget ; Taxes Clinton Plan Cuts Children
JUL 17 Labor ; Civil Rights The Extraordinary Breadth of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act - The Scope of ENDA
JUL 16 Budget ; Social Security Is This President Aiming to Turn Social Security into another Welfare Program?
JUL 14 Campaign Fundraising A Sketch of the Rules - When Congress Gives Immunity to a Witness
JUL 11 Budget ; Taxes Clinton's Child Credit: A Day Late, A Dollar Short, and One Million Fewer Children Aided
JUL 9 Budget ; Taxes Tax Relief for Every Taxpayer at Every Stage of Life
JUN 26 Budget ; Taxes ; Seniors Liberal Attacks Hit Seniors - Taxpayer Relief Act Greatly Benefits Seniors
JUN 25 Labor ; Campaign Reform Big Labor's Big-Money Political Machine - Compulsory Union Dues & Campaign Finance
JUN 25 Budget ; Taxes This Scheme is Not Credible, and Should Not Be Taken Seriously - Daschle Alternative Hurts the Ones He Claims to Help
JUN 19 Budget ; Taxes Clinton Resurrects Phony 1993 Accounting Argument to Attack Tax Relief; President's Phony Numbers Make Everyone Well Off
JUN 18 Taxes ; Welfare How Do You Give Tax Breaks to People Who Don’t Pay Taxes??? Clinton Favors Welfare Spending Over Tax Cuts
JUN 10 Civil Rights ; Racial Preferences President Should Enforce the Civil Rights Laws as Written - Administration Sanctions Race-Based Layoffs
JUN 5 Budget ; Disaster Relief Clinton Threatens to Veto Disaster Aid!!! Minority Party Must Decide: For People or For Party?
JUN 2 Budget ; Medicare This Year's Budget Agreement Debunks Clinton's 1996 Charges - Daylight Shines on White House's 1996 "Medi-Scare" Ploy
JUN 2 Presidential Immunity What if Congress Voted on Presidential Immunity? The Paula Jones Case is Not Trivial
JAN 21 Senate GOP The Republican Agenda for the 105th Congress
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1997 Legislative Notices
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Bill NumberDateIssueTitle
S. 738 NOV 6Transportation ; Amtrak Amtrak Reform and Accountability Act
S. 1269 OCT 31Trade Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1997 ("Fast Track")
H.R. 2646 OCT 29Education Education Savings Act for Public and Private Schools
H.R. 1119 OCT 27Defense Authorization Conference Report Highlights: Department of Defense Authorization Act, FY 1998
H.R. 2107 OCT 27Interior Appropriations Conference Report Highlights: Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, FY 1998
S. 1292 OCT 27MILCON Appropriations Military Construction Line Item Veto Disapproval Bill
S. 1173 OCT 7Transportation Appropriations Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1997
H.R. 2160 OCT 7Agriculture Appropriations Agriculture, Rural Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 1998
S. 25 OCT 1Campaign Reform McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Bill
S. 1156 SEP 12DC Appropriations District of Columbia Appropriations Bill, 1998 -- Summary Chart - (PDF format)
S. 1061 SEP 9Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations Update -- Pending Amendments
H.R. 2107 SEP 4Interior Appropriations Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 1998 -- Summary Chart - (PDF format)
S. 1061 AUG 29Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations Departments of Labor, HHS, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill, 1998 -- Summary Chart - (PDF format)
H.R. 2014 JUL 30Budget Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 - Conference Report
H.R. 2015 JUL 30Budget Balanced Budget Act of 1997 - Conference Report
S. 1048 JUL 24Transportation Appropriations Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations
S. 39 JUL 23Dolphin Protection The International Dolphin Conservation Program Act
S. 1022 JUL 23Commerce, State, Justice Appropriations Department of Commerce, Justice, and the State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill 1998
S. 1033 JUL 23Agriculture Appropriations Agriculture, Rural Development, and Releated Agencies Appropriation Bill 1998
S. 830 JUL 22FDA Reform Food and Drug Administration Modernization and Accountibility Act of 1997
H.R. 2016 JUL 21Military Construction Appropriations The FY 1998 Military Construction Appropriations Bill
S. 1034 JUL 21VA, HUD Appropriations Departments of Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Bill, FY 1998
S. 1023 JUL 17Treasury, Postal Appropriations Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Bill, FY 1998
S. 1019 JUL 16Leg Branch Appropriations Legislative Branch Appropriations, 1998
S. 955 JUL 15Foreign Ops Appropriations Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriation Bill, 1998
S. 1004 JUL 15Energy Appropriations Energy and Water Development Appropriation Bill, 1998
S. 1005 JUL 11Defense Appropriations S. 1005 - The FY 1998 Department of Defense Appropriations Bill
S. 936 JUL 2Defense Authorization The FY 1998 Defense Authorization Act
S. 949 JUN 24Budget Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997
S. 947 JUN 23Budget Balanced Budget Act of 1997
S. 924 JUN 17Defense Authorization The FY 1998 Defense Authorization Act (see S. 936)
S. 858 JUN 17Intelligence Authorization The Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 1998
S. 903 JUN 16State Department Authorization Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1997
S. 419 JUN 10Health Care Birth Defects Prevention Act of 1997
S. Con. Res. 27 JUN 20Budget Concurrent Budget Resolution for Fiscal Year 1998
H.R. 1122 MAY 13Abortion Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1997
S. 717 MAY 12IDEA Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Reauthorization
Treaty Doc. 105-5 MAY 9CFE Treaty Flank Document Agreement to the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty
S. 4 MAY 9Labor The Family Friendly Workplace Act
S. 672 MAY 2Supplemental Appropriations Supplemental Appropriations and Recissions Act, FY97
S. 543 APR 25Judiciary Volunteer Protection Act of 1997
Treaty Doc. 103-21 APR 22CWC Treaty Chemical Weapons Convention
S. 495 APR 17Chemical Weapons Chemical and Biological Weapons Threat Reduction Act of 1997
H.R. 1003 APR 16Assisted Suicide Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act of 1997
S. 522 APR 15IRS Reform Taxpayer Browsing Protection Act
S.J.Res. 22 MAR 17Campaign Fundraising A Resolution Expressing the Sense of the Congress that an Independent Counsel Should be Appointed to Investigate Illegal Fundraising
S.J.Res. 18 MAR 12Constitutional Amendment Constitutional Amendment Allowing Congress and the States to Regulate Contributions and Expenditures in Elections
S.Res. 39 MAR 10Campaign Fundraising Resolution Authorizing Expenditured By The Governmental Affairs Committee
H.J.Res. 36 FEB 20Family Planning Joint Resolution approving the President's finding with regard to international family planning
S.J.Res. 1 FEB 4Balanced Budget Amendment Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment
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