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    "Rich States, Poor States" Report

    The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) announced the results of its annual report “Rich States, Poor States,” which ranks the financial outlook for each state. ALEC Chief Economist…

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    Energy Industry Innovation

    The American Legislative Exchange Council presented its Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism to Stephen Moore. Mr. Moore spoke about energy industry inovation and new technologi…

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    Economic Issues

    At the 33rd annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council, economist Milton Friedman spoke about issues including the economy, school choice, education reform, and tax reform. …

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    Crisis in State Spending

    Participants talked about management of state budgets and levels of state spending on public services. Among the topics they addressed were health care spending, reducing duplication of serv…

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    National Security Issues

    General Russell Davis spoke about the role of the National Guard in maintaining domestic security following September 11 terrorist attacks.

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    Adoption Laws

    Wendy’s Corporation Chairman Dave Thomas talked about adoption laws and the foster care system in the U.S. He focused on the Adoption an Safe Families Act which encourages children to remain…

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    States' Rights and Governmental Authority

    During a two-day conference of the American Legislative Exchange Council on increasing local power versus the federal government, former Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Jack Kemp spok…

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    Telecommunications Act Impact on States

    Three persons with experience in relations between government and telecommunications companies discussed the impact of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 on states, especially state legislat…

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    Education Reform

    State legislators and education reform advocates discussed alternatives for education reform, including school vouchers, charter schools, parental rights and performance evaluation. After th…

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    Returning Power to the States

    Representative Newt Gingrich (R-GA) spoke about the importance of the relationship between federal and state government, specifically the Congress and state legislators. He stated that the n…

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    Empowering Indiviuals

    This panel, during a meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council, discussed individual empowerment as a means of lifting persons out of poverty and unemployment without dependency …

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    Balanced Budget Amendment

    Panelists discussed the federal budget deficit, the balance budget amendment and the positive and negative aspects of budget deficit.

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    Empowering Individuals

    Panelists discussed educating community activists, empowering the residents of public housing and other topics.

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    California School Choice Issues

    Kellyanne Fitzpatrick (Conway) spoke on the school choice as a ballot issue in states such as California, where it lost. She described methods of marketing school choice to voters by state g…

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    Punitive Damages in Civil Law

    After an introduction by Mr. Bandstra, Mr. Behrens talked about “The U.S. Supreme Court and State Legislators.” He discussed punitive damages against state governments and described several…

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    Balanced Budget Amendment

    The speakers talked about the proposed balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. They emphasized that such an amendment was unlikely to originate in Congress, so states must organize in…

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    Tax and Fiscal Policy

    The speakers talked about issues related to the economy such as federal tax and fiscal policy and the federal deficit at a luncheon of newly-elected state legislators who were meeting to dis…

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    State Budget Proposal

    The American Legislative Exchange Council held a conference of newly elected state legislators. The speakers spoke about the dangers of growing state government and suggested ways that legis…

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    Bush Campaign Speech

    President George H.W. Bush gave a speech as part of a two-day campaign tour during which he also visited New York and Utah. He mentioned that he was getting ready to start an aggressive camp…

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    Speech to State Lawmakers

    President Bush spoke to a meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council on recent developments in the Middle East. He lauded the efforts of the Secretary of Defense and the soldiers i…

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