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    National Taxpayers Union Conference, Part 1

    Members of Congress, journalists and others spoke at the 1997 National Taxpayers Union Conference. They talked about why taxes should be reduced and various ways to accomplish this goal. The…

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    Social Security Reform

    Participants discussed the need for structural reform in the social security system because the system was not designed to deal with the demographic shifts in the U.S. population. They also …

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    Balanced Budget Amendment Part 5

    Senate Judiciary Committee members heard testimony on the balanced budget amendment. A number of congressional, federal, and outside experts testified about the feasibility and legality of p…

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    Tax Reform

    Senator Phil Gramm(R-TX) talked about the Republican agenda for 104th Congress. He emphasized decreasing three things, taxes, government spending and regulation. Following his remarks Sen. G…

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    National Taxpayers Conference

    New Jersey Governor Christine Whitman (R) spoke about the need for lower taxes and limited government to help the economy grow and her efforts along these lines in her state. She also talked…

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    National Taxpayers Conference

    Representative Dick Armey (R-TX) spoke about national tax policy. He had proposed reforms to help individual entrepreneurs and reduce exemptions of large corporations. He focused on his prop…

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    Cutting Government Waste

    Indianapolis, Indiana Republican Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, spoke about smaller government in cities and more independence from the federal government whose regulations make using funds much m…

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    Congressional Reform

    U.S. Representative Timothy Penny (D-MN) spoke about expectations that the midterm elections would lead to congressional reform in several areas, including limiting committee chairmanship te…

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    Growing Entitlement Burden

    Pete Peterson of The Blackstone Group spoke about the relationship between entitlements, the growing national debt, and the U.S. economy. He argued that current U.S. society was leaving a cr…

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    Citizen Legislators

    Education Secretary for the George H. W. Bush Administration Lamar Alexander spoke about his proposal to limit congressional sessions. He emphasized the need to return to the notions of citi…

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    Congressional Spending Report

    National Taxpayers' Union and CompuServe officials held a press conference to announce a new computer system for monitoring congressional voting records. The system would be available to com…

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    Balanced Budget Amendment

    During the fourth and final day of hearings on the Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment, witnesses testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee. The amendment would impose a mand…

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    Congressional Spending Policies

    Mr. Davidson, Mr. Hewitt and Mr. Keating spoke in a news conference at the National Press Club to announce the release of a survey on the government spending policies of individual members o…

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    Economic Growth in the Four Asian Tigers

    Professor Alvin Rabushka looked at the government’s role in influencing a nation’s economic growth. In his speech entitled, “The Economic History of Prosperity: The Four Asian Tigers,” he ex…

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    Technology and Government Waste

    Jim Davidson, founder & chairman of the National Taxpayer’s Union and co-author of Blood in the Streets discussed technology as a major force of change in our society, that “microtechnology …

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    Restructuring of Resolution Trust Corporation

    After remarks from members of the committee on the death of committee member Sen. John Heinz (R-PA), who died in a plane crash on April 4, the Senate Banking Committee heard testimony on res…

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    The Savings and Loan Crisis

    Abbe Lowell S&L Counsel for the Defense and Jim Davidson of the National Taxpayers Union discussed the savings and loan crisis, including the investigation into the “Keating Five” scandal, a…

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    Savings and Loan Crisis

    A News Briefing sponsored by the CATO Institute on the Savings and Loan Industry. The Discussion focused on the current situation in the Thrift Industry and what lies ahead. The speakers in…

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    Review of the 1986 Tax Reform Act

    This hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee was a review of the 1986 Tax Reform Bill, and how the bill was effecting tax payers as well as revenue for the federal government.

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    Federal Pay Raises

    Committee held hearings to review the Report of the 1989 Commission on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries.

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