RPC 1999 Policy Papers		Legislative Notices
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November
Date	Issue	Title
NOV 19	Republican Congress	Republicans Against Democrats: Who Earns Your Paycheck? Who Spends It? Who Decides?
NOV 19	Republican Congress	Clinton/Gore Agenda Thwarted: GOP Congress Stands Up for America
NOV 19	Republican Congress; Budget	Policy Points: GOP Congress Protects Social Security, Retires Federal Debt, Aids Medicare, and Cuts Taxes
NOV 9	Education	The Issue Isn't Education Funding: Whose Money Is It, Mr. President?
NOV 9	Budget	Hypocrisy, Thy Name is Clinton: Clinton Proposed Drastic Across-the-Board Spending Cuts Just Two Years Ago
NOV 8	Taxes	How to Offset Minimum Wage Hike's Costs to Business -- With a Tax Hike or a Tax Cut?
NOV 2	Budget	Discretionary Spending Will Increase Under Republican Plans: What "Cuts," Mister President?
October
Date	Issue	Title
OCT 28	Taxes	Clinton's Latest Nicotine Patch: Addicted to Spending, Gotta Raise More Taxes
OCT 26	Social Security	Clinton Social Security "Plan": Misleading -- And Dangerous
OCT 25	Environment; Clinton Administration	Clinton/Gore Forest Road Policy Blueprint for Disaster
OCT 20	Health Care	House, Senate Agree on Health Care Access Provisions
OCT 19	Budget	Democrats Echo Hollow Budget Charges: Clinton is Both "the Pot" and "the Kettle" on Budget Issue
OCT 15	Health Care	One-Fifth of Uninsured Have Access to -- But Decline -- Employer Coverage
OCT 15	Health Care	House Republicans' Healthcare Access Bill Helps Millions, Taxation Committee Says
OCT 14	Second Amendment	Judge Rejects Cincinnati's Anti-Gun Lawsuit
OCT 13	Health Care	Editorial Reaction to Expanded Liability: Dingell-Norwood Leaves Health Care to the "Crapshoot of the Courts"
OCT 13	Defense	Administration's Own Statements Help Prove The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Should Not Be Ratified
OCT 12	Budget; Taxes	Even the Liberal Press Admits Gore & Bradley Are Over-Spending: Hey, Big Spenders!
OCT 8	Taxes	Liberal Democrats Say America is Under-Taxed
OCT 8	Foreign Affairs; Appropriations	Clinton Threatens Veto Because Not Enough Surplus Money Will Be Spent on Foreign Aid
OCT 7	Defense	Treaty Weakens America's Security: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Cannot Be Verified
OCT 5	Health Care	Uninsured Now Number 44.3 Million: Will the House Expand or Further Restrict Health Coverage?
OCT 5	Health Care	9% FEHBP Premium Hike Confirms Senate Took the High Road on Patients' Rights
OCT 5	Taxes	Clinton-Gore Administration Forecloses Prospect of a Tax Cut: Clinton's "Work with Me" Means "Spend with Me"
OCT 5	Defense	Treaty Weakens America's Security: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Jeopardizes U.S. Nuclear Deterrent
OCT 1	Medicare	A Look at the Impact of BBA'97 on Medicare Payments: Clinton Administration Culpable on Medicare
September
Date	Issue	Title
SEPT 28	Clinton Administration; Judiciary	Victim Requests for Meetings Turned Down: Clinton/Gore Consulted Terrorists' Supporters But Stiffed Victims
SEPT 28	Health Care	Summary of the "Patients' Bill of Rights Plus Act" as Passed by the U.S. Senate July 15, 1999
SEPT 27	Clinton Administration	Clinton Home Loan Deal May Violate Federal Law (No Wonder They're Reconsidering It)
SEPT 27	Education	Votes Today on Competing Education Resolutions: While Democrats Demand Federal Control, GOP Commits to Empowering Educators
SEPT 22	Clinton Administration; Defense	Africa, Chile, China...Next Outer Mongolia? Three Trips, Eight Countries, 2,400 People -- and a $60 Million Pentagon Tab
SEPT 22	Clinton Administration	White House Tries to Spin Clear of Excessive Foreign Travel Cost Revelation
SEPT 21	Clinton Administration	Coddling Terrorists?
SEPT 21	Clinton Administration	Al Gore: Quick to Condemn "Arms-for-Hostages," but What About "Terrorists-for-Votes?"
SEPT 21	Second Amendment	The Clinton Approach to Gun Laws: Harass Lawful Citizens, Prosecute Fewer Criminals, Coddle Terrorists for Political Gain
SEPT 21	Clinton Administration	Clinton's Foreign Travel: Excessive or Abusive? Government Auditor Finds Just 3 Recent Clinton Trips Cost $72 Million
SEPT 21	Clinton Administration; Defense	Excessive Clinton Travel Tab = Taxpayer Abuse: Most Funds Raided from U.S. Military Readiness
SEPT 20	Taxes	Tax Profligacy No Substitute for Fiscal Responsibility
SEPT 17	Federal Government	Remembering John Dickinson on Constitution Day
SEPT 16	Education; Taxes	NPR Poll Shows Parents Want School Choice and Local Control, not Higher Taxes
SEPT 8	Taxes; Education	The Republican Tax-Cut Plan and Education: It's a Win-Win
August
Date	Issue	Title
AUG 6	Foreign Affairs; Judiciary	Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and Espionage by "United States Persons"
AUG 5	Welfare	Welfare Rolls Cut Nearly in Half; Welfare Reform: Bringing Dignity to Millions (But Not to Bill Clinton)
AUG 5	Taxes	Policy Points on the Taxpayer Refund/Relief Act of 1999
AUG 3	Crime and Drugs	The Kennedy Amendment on Commerce Appropriations: "Hate Crimes" Legislation Reappears
AUG 2	Taxes	Senate's Tax Cut: Big Savings for the Future
July
Date	Issue	Title
JULY 30	Clinton Administration	What His Contempt of Court Is Going to Cost the President
JULY 29	Health Care	Clinton/Gore FDA Violated 1st Amendment: Court Restores Doctors' Free Speech Rights
JULY 28	Taxes; Medicare	Congressional Budget Funds Medicare and Social Security: Medi-Scare, Gore Style
JULY 27	Taxes	Middle Class Tax Relief Scorecard
JULY 26	Taxes	A Republican Tax Cut Bill vs. "Democrat Tax" Bill
JULY 26	Budget	The Tax Cut, the Surplus, the Public Debt, and the President
JULY 22	Veterans; Budget	Of Rubber and Glue: Democrats' Inaccurate Charge on Veterans Funding
JULY 20	Health Care	Senate Approves MSAs for All Americans
JULY 15	Federal Government; Constitution	The "Great Compromise" of July 16, 1787
JULY 13	Health Care	The Kennedy Bill Would Lead to More Cancer Fatalities
JULY 9	Health Care	CBO: The Kennedy Bill (S. 6) Is a $72 Billion Hidden Tax Increase
JULY 8	Health Care	Canceling Coverage Protects Nobody: The Cost of "KennedyCare" (S. 6)
JULY 1	Budget; Taxes	Non-Social Security Surplus Up Significantly in Latest Estimate: CBO Offers Even More Reasons To Cut Taxes
June
Date	Issue	Title
JUNE 30	Social Security	President Clinton Flip-Flops on Social Security Lockbox: Will Senate Democrats Follow Their President?
JUNE 30	Medicare	Clinton's Medicare "Plan": More Federal Spending. More Budget Gimmickery
JUNE 28	Social Security	Clinton's Cave on Lockbox Leaves Senate Democrats Isolated
JUNE 25	Health Care	AMA Votes to Unionize Doctors: Now More Than Ever, Enact MSAs
JUNE 24	Health Care	It's About Access, Stupid: Cost Estimates of "KennedyCare"
JUNE 24	Health Care	The Health Care Access and Equity Act of 1999
JUNE 23	Health Care	Democrats Obstruct Ag Bill With Proposal to Cancel Health Coverage for 1.4 Million
JUNE 22	Health Care	RPC Talking Points: Republicans Protect Patients, Democrats Increase Health Care Costs
JUNE 21	Intelligence	Kyl-Domenici-Murkowski Amendment Improves Security and Accountability at U.S. Nuclear Labs
JUNE 18	Health Care	Their Ship Sinking, Democrats Throw Patients Overboard To Save Trial Lawyers
JUNE 17	Social Security	Democrats Stop Vote on Social Security Lockbox for Fourth Time
JUNE 15	Social Security	RPC Talking Points on S. 605: Hollings Amendment to Social Security Lockbox
JUNE 14	Social Security	RPC Talking Points: Social Security Lockbox and the Medicare Loophole
JUNE 11	Civil Rights	Nuclear Secrets and Civil Rights
JUNE 8	Technology	Senate Wednesday Again Attempts to End Minority's Stranglehold: The Great Y2K Money Chase
JUNE 7	Social Security	The GOP Lockbox is the First Step in Saving Social Security: The Washington Post's Phony Lockbox Argument
May
Date	Issue	Title
MAY 27	Social Security	Democrat Hypocrisy on Lock Box
MAY 27	Foreign Affairs	The Clinton Administration and Chinese Espionage at U.S. Nuclear Weapons Labs: A Chronology of Key Events
MAY 27	Foreign Affairs	House Select Committee Report Documents Serious Chinese Theft of U.S. Nuclear Secrets
MAY 21	Crime	Senate Says Public Schools Can Use Religious Speech To Honor Their Dead
MAY 19	Labor	The Different Worlds of Greenspan and Kennedy: Greenspan Comments Undercut Kennedy Wage-Hike Efforts
MAY 5	Health Care	Forty-three Senators Urge Action this Year: Make MSAs Available to All Americans "Immediately"
MAY 4	Taxes	Democrats' Opposition to Tax Cuts Could Cost Citizens of Some States Billions
April
Date	Issue	Title
APR 30	Crime	Morality & Mayhem in "the Public Square"
APR 29	Health Care	CBO Re-Estimate Has Democrats Backpedaling
APR 28	Social Security	While Gore Turns up the Rhetoric, Five Senate Democrats Seek Social Security Flexibility
APR 15	Taxes ; Defense	Senate Votes Today on Bill Providing Tax Benefits to Armed Forces Members in Yugoslavia
APR 13	Campaign Finance	Chung Says China Gave Big Bucks to Dems -- More Evidence of Chinese Government Influence-Peddling
APR 8	Labor	"Equal Pay" Day, Two Years Later -- Future Shock:
APR 5	Labor	Gore-Daschle "Paycheck Fairness" Pays Off Trial Lawyers, Invites Wage Controls -- "Equal Pay Day" (April 8) Based on Misinformation
APR 1	Medicare	No Absolution for Clinton Appointees Who Killed Medicare Reform -- Advancing to the Rear
March
Date	Issue	Title
MAR 31	Foreign Affairs	The Kosovo Liberation Army: Does Clinton Policy Support Group with Terror, Drug Ties? -- From 'Terrorists' to 'Partners'
MAR 31	Social Security; Medicare	Republican Economy And Reforms Bolster Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds -- Social Security and Medicare Trustees Report
MAR 25	Medicare	Democratic Senator Responds to Medi-Scare Tactics -- Senator Breaux Sets the Record Straight on Medicare
MAR 24	Defense	Did the Administration Respond "Vigorously" to Chinese Nuclear Espionage? -- Contradictions Abound
MAR 24	Budget	The Republican Budget: Providing Real Tax Relief for Americans
MAR 24	Medicare	Clinton "Sticks Up" Seniors' Medicare for $19 Billion
MAR 23	Foreign Affairs	Senate to Vote Today on Preventing Funding of Military Operations for Kosovo -- Airstrikes Likely This Week
MAR 18	Campaign Finance	Oscar© Rides a Donkey (and Vice Versa) -- Hollywood Money and the Democratic Party
MAR 16	Budget	The Republican Budget: Keeping the Promises Clinton Breaks -- Overview of the Republican Budget Plan
MAR 16	Health Care	Republicans Champion Patients' Rights by Making Health Coverage Affordable -- While Democrats Line the Pockets of Trial Lawyers
MAR 15	Medicare	The Big Lie Part II: Clinton's Medicare Proposal -- Outside Experts Agree: Clinton's Medicare Proposal a Gimmick
MAR 9	Education	Fifty Governors Favor Bill, But Democrats Put Politics Ahead of Students -- Democrats Jeopardizing "Ed-Flex" by Limiting Local Choice
MAR 4	Budget; Social Security	It's Official: Clinton Budget Raids Social Security and Reduces Debt Less Than Doing Nothing Would -- Congress' Official Estimators Hammer Clinton Budget
MAR 3	Medicare	Democrats Resurrect 'Medi-scare' Tactics
MAR 3	Social Security	Supporters of Clinton's Public Investment 'Plan' for Social Security Make Critical Errors -- Alan Greenspan's Not Often Wrong -- and Certainly Not This Time
MAR 1	Health Care	Talking Points on "Patients' Bill of Rights"
February
Date	Issue	Title
FEB 26	Technology	Senate Votes Tuesday on Bill to Help Small Businesses Cope With "Y2K Problem"
FEB 25	Defense	Setting the Record Straight on S. 257: The National Missile Defense Act of 1999 -- Myth Vs. Fact
FEB 22	Foreign Affairs	Clinton Kosovo Intervention Appears Imminent -- Bombing, or Ground Troops -- or Both
FEB 18	Social Security	Clinton's Social Security Proposal: Double-Counting Plus Interest -- Clinton Claims Interest on Money He Doesn't Have
FEB 12	Impeachment; Clinton Administration	Judgment, Though Not Conviction -- Bipartisan Judgment Against the President
FEB 11	GOP Agenda	Policy Points on Crime, Drugs, Education, Social Security and Tax Relief
FEB 9	Health Care	Key Provisions in S. 300, "Patients' Bill of Rights" Plus -- MSAs, FSAs, and Deductibility Deliver Greater Access and Real Patient Protection
FEB 3	Social Security	Clinton's Social Security Scam Draws Well-Deserved Criticism -- Double-Counting for Dummies
FEB 3	Budget	Details of the President's FY 2000 Budget: More Spending, More Taxes, and Broken Promises -- Games and Gimmicks to "Fund" Big Giveaways
FEB 1	Budget	Clinton's Latest Budget: Honestly Phony -- Fiscal Fiction Defrauds Social Security and Taxpayers
January
Date	Issue	Title
JAN 26	Budget	State of the Union Amounted to a Spending Promise-a-Minute -- The Clinton Constant: Consummate Spending
JAN 26	Social Security	What is the White House Really Doing with Social Security? -- Trying to Understand Clinton's Social Security 'Plan'
JAN 25	Defense	President Clinton's Defense Spending Increase: Long Overdue, But Less Than Meets the Eye
JAN 21	State of the Union	The 'Era of Big Government': It's Ba-aack!
JAN 19	Social Security	When is Private Investment Not Private Investment? -- When Government's the One Investing (Social Security Money)
JAN 8	Budget	Important First Steps Toward Budget Process Reform -- Majority Leader Introduces Four Budget Reform Measures