RPC 2000 Policy Papers Legislative Notices
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December
Date Issue Title
DEC 7 Constitution;
Federal Government		 The Short Guide to Counting Electoral Votes
November
Date Issue Title
NOV 2 Republican Congress A Summary of Accomplishments of the 106th Congress, to Date
October
Date Issue Title
OCT 26 Republican Congress The Republican Majority: Putting People Before Politics
OCT 23 Clinton Administration;
Defense;
Intelligence;
Foreign Affairs		 Gore Alleged to Have Violated Law He Authored: Senate to Probe Vice President's Secret Deals on Russian Arms to Iran
OCT 20 Crime;
Judiciary;
Second Amendment		 What is the DOJ Hiding? Watchdog Sues Clinton-Gore DOJ for Withholding Prosecutions Data
OCT 18 Crime;
Judiciary		 Violent Crimes and "Hate Crimes" in 1999: The FBI's Newly Released Data
OCT 13 Medicaid States Are Looting Medicaid Through a Multi-Billion-Dollar Loophole
OCT 13 Defense America, the Vulnerable: The Clinton-Gore Record on National Missile Defense
OCT 4 Crime;
Judiciary		 The False Premise of "Hate Crimes": Are "Hate Crimes" Unique? Are They Worse Than All Other Crimes?
OCT 3 Health Care Last Dance: (Bill) Clinton's Final Push for Government-Run Health Care
September
Date Issue Title
SEPT 29 Crime;
Judiciary		 Let's Honor All Victims of Murder: The Other Victims of Friday, September 22: Who Will Speak For Them?
SEPT 29 Crime;
Judiciary		 Passion, Politics, and "Hate Crimes": Two More Horrific Cases from Virginia
SEPT 28 Crime;
Judiciary		 Are Government-Defined "Hate Crimes" Different? Do Their Victims Suffer More?
SEPT 20 Health Care Even as Health Premiums Rise 10%, Democrats Still Demand a 4% Lawyer's Surcharge: You Call This "Patient Protection"?
SEPT 20 Health Care Norwood-Dingell II: Dems Try to Scuttle Patients' Rights Conference by Offering Even More Lawsuits
SEPT 18 Health Care In Their Own Words: Democrats' Goal Is Still Government-Run Health Care
SEPT 15 Education;
Republican Congress		 Reid's Accusations False: GOP Senate Has Devoted One-Fifth of This Year to Education
SEPT 14 Republican Congress Democrat "Roadblock" Index: Getting Their Own Votes and Still Obstructing the Senate's Business
SEPT 13 Republican Congress 7th Stall Tactic Since August: Democrats Dodge Their Own Bullet
SEPT 11 Clinton Administration;
Judiciary		 Gore Failed Victims of Terrorists: One Year After He Might Have Stopped it, Gore Still Silent on Release of FALN Terrorists
SEPT 8 Second Amendment DoJ Declares Americans Have No Right to Keep and Bear Arms -- Does Al Gore Agree?
SEPT 1 Education Senator Lieberman: School Choice is D.C. Students' "Birthright as Americans"
August
Date Issue Title
AUG 31 Second Amendment Centers For Disease Control: Gun Deaths Decrease Despite More Guns and Concealed-Carry Permits
AUG 31 Second Amendment Pro- and Anti-Brady Studies Agree: "Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act" Does Not Prevent Handgun Violence
July
Date Issue Title
JULY 28 Medicare President's Prescription Drug Plan Falls Short: Few Seniors Would Benefit
JULY 27 Health Care;
Medicare		 He Keeps Going, and Going. . . Medicare Plan Makes Clinton the Energizer Bunny of Government-Run Health Care
JULY 26 Medicare;
Taxes		 Clinton's Growing Prescription Drug Plan and the Family Tax Burden
JULY 26 Second Amendment;
Crime		 Feinstein Gun Amendment Puts Politics Over Police Officers' Safety
JULY 20 Second Amendment NPR Commentary: The Right to Keep and Bear Arms, as Understood by the Founding Fathers
JULY 20 Judiciary Judiciary Committee Chairman Responds to "Defamation" Against Senate
JULY 19 Taxes Republican Tax Cuts and New Tax Surplus Numbers
June
Date Issue Title
JUNE 30 Medicare Giant Hidden Loophole: Senator Conrad's Medicare Insolvency Box
JUNE 30 Energy New Gore Energy Plan Is Nothing More Than a Repackaged (Failed) Clinton/Gore Energy Policy
JUNE 26 Defense;
Intelligence		 Republicans, and Now Even Democrats Agree. . . Secretary Richardson Has Failed
JUNE 22 Taxes Who Pays the Death Tax?
JUNE 21 Judiciary;
Second Amendment;
Taxes		 Never Mind Armed Criminals -- Harass Those Taxpayers! Clinton, Gore Care Less About Stopping Gun Violence Than Filling Tax Coffers
JUNE 21 Defense;
Intelligence		 Energy Dept.'s Nuclear Secrets: Lost and Found, Yet No One Can Say How or Why
JUNE 20 Crime;
Judiciary		 Against Kennedy's Hate-Crimes Amendment
JUNE 19 Crime;
Judiciary		 Murders & Hate-Crimes Murders: 16,901 Unrenowned; 11 Unheralded; 2 Prominent
JUNE 19 Second Amendment;
Crime		 Clinton, Gore, & Reno Let 500,000 Likely Felons Pass Right Under Their Noses: Agency Details 13-Percent Drop in Prosecutions
JUNE 15 Crime;
Judiciary		 Crimes and Hate Crimes: What the Numbers Tell Us
JUNE 15 Social Security Exclusive: Al Gore's Personal Secret Glossary -- Revealed! The Importance of Being Earnest(ly) Wrong
JUNE 14 Crime Fact Sheet on Crimes & Hate Crimes (Revised)
JUNE 8 Health Care 539 Economists Agree: Price Controls Cause Patients to Suffer "Significant Harm to Health, Even Death"
JUNE 7 Federal Government;
Republican Congress		 The Senate May Originate Appropriations Bills: Precedents and Precepts
JUNE 6 Federal Government;
Republican Congress		 The Senate's Current Priority is to Pass the Appropriation Bills
JUNE 5 Second Amendment Study: Gun Storage Laws Are Ineffective and Associated with Increases in Violent Crime
JUNE 1 Federal Government;
Republican Congress		 The Senate, the Constitution, and Spending Bills
May
Date Issue Title
MAY 31 Second Amendment What a Difference a Year Makes! Reformed (?) Gun-Grabber Rosie O'Donnell Hires Armed Bodyguard for Her Son
MAY 26 Federal Government Why Isn't the Senate Doing the People's Business?
MAY 26 Constitution;
Federal Government		 Is the Senate About to Surrender a Constitutional Prerogative?
MAY 25 Social Security Trust Fund Transfers are Phony Fixes
MAY 19 Health Care Patients' Bill of Rights: GAO Report on 4-Year Old HIPAA Suggests HCFA Couldn't Manage Kennedy-Dingell
MAY 19 Social Security Gore Flunks Investor Test: SmartMoney.Com Gives Gore "Lowest" Score
MAY 19 Education Sen. Gregg Sums Up Democrats' Education Message: "The Governors Are the Force of Evil"
MAY 12 Second Amendment Clinton's Contorted Comparisons: Planes, Guns, & Automobiles
MAY 10 Social Security Gore-Mongering Social Security
MAY 10 Foreign Affairs;
Immigration		 Was Reno's Predawn Raid About Elian -- or Fidel?
MAY 8 Taxes Historically High . . . or Historically Low?? -- You Be the Judge: The Total Family Tax Burden
MAY 4 Education ESEA: The Miseducation of Senate Democrats
MAY 4 Education Democrats Misrepresent Republican Reforms
MAY 4 Education Senator Reid Says Democrats Want No Extraneous Issues on ESEA Reauthorization
MAY 3 Education Democrats' Biggest Fear: Parental Involvement
MAY 3 Education Republicans Rescue Disavantaged Students: If You Always Do What You've Always Done, You'll Always Get What You've Already Got
MAY 2 Social Security Gore Rewrites History on Social Security Proposal
April
Date Issue Title
APR 27 Immigration;
Clinton Administration		 Has Clinton Gotten Assurances that Elian Would be with His Father and Not with Fidel? Clinton's Mouthpiece Won't Say.
APR 26 Energy The Real Clinton Legacy? Failed Clinton/Gore Energy Policies Threaten Economy?
March
Date Issue Title
MAR 30 Defense;
Clinton Administration		 Lameduck President's Continuing Globetrotting Forays: Latest Trip Pegged at $50 Million -- Most Expensive Presidential Trip Ever
MAR 29 Taxes;
Energy		 Nationwide Reaction to Jump in Gasoline Prices: States Act to Provide Gas Tax Relief
MAR 16 Labor President Clinton's About-Face on Minimum Wage: Again!
MAR 10 Health Care Canceling Coverage Cancels Care: Patients' Rights: The Stakes
MAR 10 Second Amendment Gun Control vs. Law Enforcement, Education: White House Spinners Should Read Their Own Juvenile Crime Reports
MAR 10 Foreign Policy;
Energy		 Gasoline at $2 per Gallon? Putting Politics First: Clinton/Gore Foreign Policy Hits American Pocketbook
MAR 9 Energy;
Environment		 Clinton/Gore to Blame for High Energy Prices
MAR 9 Energy;
Transportation		 Clinton/Gore Failed Gas Policies Hurting Consumers
MAR 2 Health Care Dingell-Norwood Would Increase Cancer Deaths
February
Date Issue Title
FEB 29 Health Care You Call This Patients' Rights? Adding Up the Casualties of Dingell-Norwood
FEB 28 Second Amendment;
Housing		 HUD's Gun Lawsuit Threat: What Do Public Housing Authorities Think?
FEB 28 Energy Blame Clinton/Gore for Increased Fuel Prices
FEB 17 Labor The Clinton-Gore DOL, Stuck in the 20th Century: Time to Shake Up the Labor Department?
FEB 16 Second Amendment Another Day, Another Chastened Mayor: Chicago's Anti-Gun Lawsuit: A Dismissal
FEB 11 Budget;
Taxes		 Too Much Spending, Too Much Debt, and Too Few Tax Cuts: Clinton's Last Budget: A Fitting Legacy
FEB 10 Health Care Paying Off Trial Lawyers vs. Covering Families: Dingell-Norwood Would Cancel Coverage for 1.2 Million Americans (Cost Estimates Nationwide and for Selected States)
FEB 10 Labor;
Republican Congress		 Minimum Wage Hypocrisy: Look Who Wants a Clean Bankruptcy Bill
January
Date Issue Title
JAN 31 Immigration Justice, State Departments Ignore Plight of American Children: Elian Case Prompts Clinton/Gore Officials to Shed Crocodile Tears for Parental Rights
JAN 28 Social Security;
Budget;
Republican Congress		 CBO Verifies: GOP Kept Social Security Promise: Not A Single Cent of the Social Security Surplus
JAN 27 Second Amendment;
Crime and Drugs		 A Deathbed Converson??? After Seven Years of Neglect, Clinton and Gore Decide to Fight Gun Violence
JAN 27 Medicare President Promises Much, Delivers Little: The Truth Behind Clinton's Prescription Drug Proposal
JAN 24 Commerce;
Technology		 Government Management, Not Private Markets, Threatens Economy: Stock Market Growth Reflects Economic Potential
JAN 24 Second Amendment;
Judiciary		 A HUD Lawsuit Against the Gun Industry? Secretary Cuomo's Assault Weapon
JAN 19 Budget Gore, Bradley Propose Record Spending Increases: Democrat Spending Plans Eclipse LBJ's Great Society
JAN 11 Labor Dispatches from the Nanny State: Party Tips from Labor Secretary Alexis M. Herman

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Legislative Notices
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Date Issue Bill
OCT 26 Taxes;
Medicare;
Health Care		 Highlights of the Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 2614, Enactment of Certain Small Business, Health, Tax, and Minimum Wage Provisions
SEPT 20 Environment S. 2796 -- Water Resources Development Act of 2000
SEPT 19 Appropriations Highlights of the Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 4516, Legislative Branch and Treasury and General Government Appropriation Bill Conference Agreement, FY 2001
SEPT 18 Immigration S. 2045 -- American Competitiveness in the Twenty-First Century Act
SEPT 7 Appropriations;
Commerce;
Foreign Affairs;
Judiciary		 H.R. 4690 -- Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, FY 2001
AUG 31 Trade H.R. 4444 -- Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the People's Republic of China
JULY 24 Appropriations S. 2900 -- Treasury and General Government Appropriation Bill, FY 2001
JULY 20 Appropriations;
Energy;
Environment		 H.R. 4733 -- Energy and Water Development Appropriation Bill, FY 2001
JULY 10 Taxes H.R. 8 -- Death Tax Elimination Act of 2000
JULY 10 Taxes S. 2839 -- Marriage Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2000
JUNE 30 Defense;
Appropriations		 Highlights of the Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 4425, the FY 2001 Military Construction Appropriations Bill
JUNE 28 Environment;
Appropriations		 H.R. 4578 - Department of Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, FY 2001
JUNE 22 Appropriations;
Education;
Health Care;
Labor		 S. 2553 -- Departments of Labor, HHS, and Education and Related Agencies Apropriation Bill, FY 2001
JUNE 14 Technology;
Commerce		 Highlights of the Conference Report to Accompany S. 761, Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
JUNE 14 Appropriations;
Transportation		 S. 2720 -- Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill, FY 2001
JUNE 12 Intelligence;
Defense		 S. 2507 -- Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2001
JUNE 8 Appropriations;
Defense		 S. 2593 -- Department of Defense Appropriation Bill for FY 2001
JUNE 5 Defense S. 2549 -- National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2001
MAY 25 Agriculture Highlights of the Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 2559, Agricultural Risk Protection Act (Crop Insurance)
MAY 24 Appropriations;
Federal Government		 S. 2603 -- Legislative Branch Appropriations, FY 2001
MAY 18 Appropriations;
Agriculture		 S. 2536 -- Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, FY 2001
MAY 17 Appropriations;
Foreign Affairs		 S. 2522 -- Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriation Bill, FY 2001
MAY 11 Appropriations;
Defense		 S. 2521 -- Military Construction Appropriation Bill, FY 2001
MAY 9 Trade Highlights of the Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 434, the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act
MAY 1 Education S. 2 -- Educational Opportunities Act (Elementary and Secondary Education Act Reauthorization)
APR 28 Environment S. 1608 -- Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act
APR 17 Crime;
Judiciary		 Senate Joint Resolution 3 -- Victims' Rights Constitutional Amendment
APR 13 Budget Highlights of the Conference Report to Accompany H. Con. Res. 290, Concurrent Budget Resolution for FY 2001
APR 12 Labor S. 2323 -- Worker Economic Opportunity Act
APR 11 Taxes S. 2346 -- Marriage Tax Relief Act of 2000
APR 3 Budget S. Con. Res. 101 -- Concurrent Budget Resolution for Fiscal Year 2001
MAR 29 Energy;
Taxes		 S. 2285 -- Federal Fuels Tax Holiday Act of 2000
MAR 28 Banking;
Technology		 S. 2097 -- LOCAL TV Act of 2000
MAR 23 Constitution;
Judiciary		 S.J. Res. 14 -- Flag Protection Constitutional Amendment
MAR 21 Agriculture S. 2251 -- Risk Management for the 21st Century Act (Crop Insurance Reform)
MAR 8 Social Security;
Seniors		 H.R. 5 -- Senior Citizens' Freedom to Work Act
MAR 8 Transportation Highlights of the Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 1000, Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century (AIR-21)
FEB 23 Education;
Taxes		 S. 1134 -- Affordable Education Act of 1999
FEB 18 Defense;
Foreign Affairs		 H.R. 1883 -- Iran Nonproliferation Act of 1999
FEB 4 Immigration;
Commerce		 S. 1052 - Northern Mariana Islands Covenant Implementation Act
JAN 31 Environment S. 1287 - Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act