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The Supreme Court is set to hear a case over whether or not the Bush administration is required by the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. Massachusetts and eleven other states are joined by several cities and groups including Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth in arguing that federal law requires the regulation of CO2 emissions from automobiles.
Under the Clean Air Act, carbon [...]

Ryan Walsh has a good post over at Reagan’s Children Blog on social security.
He writes, “Make no mistake, the American left, not only the right, has long acknowledged Social Security’s destined bankruptcy. Yet, because it fears that even the slightest hint of free-market reform threatens to unravel Social Security—that great apex of big-government liberalism—as they [...]

 
Director of Policy Max Pappas, discussing Social Security in Massachusetts.
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Students for Saving Social Security Teams up with FreedomWorks to crash an AARP Rally on Capitol Hill!

On March 23, 1995, the U.S. Senate voted on S. 4, the Line Item Veto Act.  As part of the Contract with America, the Line Item Veto was promised and delivered to voters as a way to cull pork and other non-essential spending items from Congressional budgets.
This past Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives showed [...]

From the Janesville Gazette:
[Thumbs up] To the Broadband Deployment Act. Gov. Jim Doyle has signed legislation offering $7.5 million in tax exemptions and credits to companies willing to extend high-speed Internet to rural areas. Republicans, Reps. Brett Davis of Oregon and Phil Montgomery of Ashwaubenon and Sen. Ted Kanavas of Brookfield, co-authored the bill. Without [...]

The Bush Administration today issued an executive order that will strengthen federal government treatment of private property rights. A bit of good news during a week when we marked the first year anniversary of the disastrous Kelo decision.  It reads in part:
It is the policy of the United States to protect the rights [...]

 
A FreedomWorks North Carolina member will be on WFAE radio in Charlotte on Monday, June 26th discussing the issue of net brutality.
Please call in to voice your opinion. The telecom bill in North Carolina is one step closer to being passed!
 
Station:                                                                WFAE 90.7 FM, Charlotte, NC
Date:                   [...]

The Senate fell short of moving to an up-or-down vote on a minimum-wage raise, but a 52-46 tally was the best so far for backers.
See full text from WSJ.

With Maine’s taxpayer bill of rights petition confirmed by the state Supreme Court, TABOR is set to be on the voter’s ballot in November. Bill Becker and the Maine Heritage Policy Center debunk many of the myths behind TABOR, explain the excitement behind this bill, and the importance of getting it passed into law:
For over ten [...]

Heritage Foundation has an article pointing to Congress’s inconsistency in the accounting standards it holds private individuals and businesses and the way it must report spending and liabilities.  Generally Accepted Accounting Principles require companies to report financial obligations as they are occurred, even if they will not come due until in the future.  This includes [...]