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Fixing the Wrong Disease

As the City Council debates a bill to force employers to offer paid sick leave, Dem ocrats in Congress aim to pass a similar federal law. Sen. Chris Dodd and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (both D-Conn.) on Tuesday released the Pandemic Protection for Workers, ...

From DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH, New York Post,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Christopher Dodd,  Rosa DeLauro (politician),  U.S. Democratic Party,  Harvard University

Who's Looking After the Workers?

With the release of the Securities and Exchange Commission report on the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme, regulators are trying to determine why the SEC staff, which was tipped off repeatedly, didn’t catch the fraud earlier. Another fraud is about to be ...

From DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH, HumanEvents.com,  14 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Securities and Exchange Commission,  AFL-CIO,  Federal Trade Commission,  U.S. Congress,  Tom Harkin

Turning Uncle Sam into Peeping Tom -- By: Diana Furchtgott-Roth

What is envisioned is a “machine-readable health plan beneficiary card” that, in addition to information about a person’s medical history, will contain checking-account or credit-card information, so as to allow electronic payments and, if a ...

From DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH, National Review Online,  20 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Kevin Young,  U.S. Democratic Party

No Recovery Until Consumers Come Back

American consumers are on vacation in more ways than one. Not only are they retreating from the labor market, as we saw from the decline in the labor force participation rate last week, but they aren’t going shopping.  Until consumers comes back, the ...

From DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH, Gerson Lehrman Group,  15 Aug 2009

Why We Don't Need a Value Added Tax

With Congress and the White House mindful—and troubled— that health-care reform could cost over $1 trillion in the next decade, the House Ways and Means Committee this week compiled a list of ways to raise money based on options from the nonpartisan ...

From DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH, Gerson Lehrman Group,  30 Jul 2009
Related Topics: White House,  Congressional Budget Office,  Charles B. Rangel,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama

America Needs More Nuclear Power Plants

With the Senate committees poised to consider versions of the expensive climate-change bill narrowly approved by the House of Representatives, it's time for the country to take a fresh look at nuclear power, which already generates 20 percent of our ...

From DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH, Gerson Lehrman Group,  30 Jul 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  U.S. House of Representatives,  Judd Gregg,  U.S. Republican Party,  NRG ENERGY INC

Health Care Tax Hikes Will Raise Unemployment

VEVAY, Indiana -Here in the heartland of America, residents of Vevay (population 1,700) are united against tax increases that congressional Democrats have proposed to pay for health care reform. They believe that tax hikes will cause more job losses ...

From DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH, Gerson Lehrman Group,  30 Jul 2009
Related Topics: U.S. House of Representatives,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress

Scaring the Public with Health Care Reform

Few figures in American life have suffered as publicly as Elizabeth Edwards, a cancer survivor whose son was killed in a car accident, the betrayed wife of presidential candidate John Edwards. Like a classic Greek heroine, she has only one flaw: she is ...

From DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH, Gerson Lehrman Group,  30 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Elizabeth Edwards,  American Enterprise Institute,  Harvard University,  John Edwards,  John Conyers

A Bill That Deserves to Fail

The bill has no restrictions on what funds could be purchased, no mechanism for pricing the assets of failed institutions, and no constraints on managing the assets. Within the next 24 hours, House members will get another chance to vote on financial ...

From DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH, The American | American Enterprise Institute,  2 Oct 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  George W. Bush,  FDIC,  Goldman Sachs,  Barack Obama

New Hope On Organ Donation

This week Senator Specter introduces the Organ Donation Clarification Act of 2008, a bill that would allow states to compensate donors for offering a kidney transplant. That's good news for the 657 former patients of the Life Care Dialysis Center on ...

From DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH, The New York Sun,  23 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Arlen Specter,  U.S. Congress,  Department of Health,  American Enterprise Institute

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