Heritage Foundation Leadership for America

November 2, 2009
Copenhagen Consequences: What You Need To Know
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #44)
In 1997 the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Byrd-Hagel Resolution which warned President Clinton not to enter into any global warming treaty that leaves out ...

October 29, 2009
Not a Good Start: The Future of Arms Control
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #43)
President Obama has made overt efforts to "reset" bilateral relations with Russia, while they continue to call the U.S. its "principal adversary." Moscow publicly applauds ...

October 16, 2009
The End of Federalism: How Obamacare Will Impact States
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #42)
The bills before Congress would place an unprecedented amount of power in the hands of the federal government to determine health insurance rules and benefits. ...

October 2, 2009
AFGHANISTAN: A War Worth Winning
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #41)
When campaigning for President, Barack Obama understood the necessity of a strategy for success in Afghanistan.  On March 27, 2009, as President, he announced his ...

September 23, 2009
Endangering America And Our Allies: Obama's Missile Defense Plans Don't Add Up
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #39)
President Obama's decision to abandon plans for basing elements of the U.S. global missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic is entirely political, ...

September 23, 2009
Going Out of Business: How ObamaCare will Hurt American Businesses
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #40)
The House and Senate draft proposals for health care reform include employer mandates that require employers to pay higher taxes if they do not offer ...

September 18, 2009
The Max Tax: Baucus Health Bill Is More of the Same
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #37)
A public plan disguised as a co-op, individual and employer mandates, massive federal regulation over insurance and benefits, and massive Medicaid expansion--the Baucus bill has ...

September 18, 2009
Reconciliation 101: A "Nuclear" Abuse of Power
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #38)
Reconciliation was created to streamline Senate rules to make it easier for lawmakers to achieve the spending and tax levels in the budget resolution. It ...

July 30, 2009
Obamacare: Top 10 Reasons It's Wrong for America
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #36)
President Obama said: "They're going to have to give up paying for things that don't make them healthier...If there's a blue pill and a red ...

June 30, 2009
Tea Party Talking Points: Obama's War on the American Dream
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #35)
Instead of higher taxes and a second stimulus, President Obama should embrace real tax and entitlement reform by lowering business taxes, permanently repealing the Alternative ...

June 24, 2009
The High Cost of Cap and Trade: Why the EPA and CBO Are Wrong
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #34)
Proponents of cap and trade point to the low cost estimates by the EPA and CBO as a reason to pass Waxman-Markey.  However these estimates ...

June 19, 2009
Obama's Health Care Agenda: How it Will Hurt American Families
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #33)
Instead of empowering parents, President Obama's health care plan will chip away at the fundamental rights parents have in key health care decisions for their ...

June 15, 2009
Obama's Health Care Reform: What Will It Do to Seniors?
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #31)
Some of the projected savings for financing Obama's health agenda, including the creation of a new public plan, would come by squeezing savings out of ...

June 15, 2009
Obama's Health Care Reform: The Demise of Federalism
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #32)
Instead of the top-down approach of a federal health care reform, federal policymakers should embrace the principles of federalism and allow states to develop innovative ...

June 4, 2009
American Workers Deserve a RAISE: Lifting the Pay Cap for 8 Million Employees
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #30)
The RAISE Act (Rewarding Achievement and Incentivizing Successful Employees) would allow employers to pay individual workers more, but not less, than the union contract specifies.  ...

May 21, 2009
The Public Health Care Plan: What Seems to Be the Problem?
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #29)
It's impossible to believe that Congress and the Administration could resist setting rules - and interpreting those rules - in favor of their own public ...

May 20, 2009
Waxman-Markey Global Warming Tax Kills More Jobs and Kills the Economy
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #28)
The cap-and-trade tax proposed by Reps. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Edward Markey (D-MA) is disguised as environmental legislation when it would have little impact on ...

May 1, 2009
Cap and Trade Is A Tax and It's a Great Big One - John Dingell (D-MI)
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #27)
Last year, the Senate rejected cap-and-tax legislation that would have capped CO2 emissions 70% below 2005 levels by 2050. A Heritage analysis of that bill ...

April 27, 2009
100 Days of Good, Bad, and Ugly: Foreign Policy and National Security
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #16)
Iraq and Afghanistan: In his first 100 days, President Obama has largely continued to implement the strategic course laid out by the Bush Administration in ...

April 27, 2009
100 Days: With a Hole in Your Pocket
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #17)
The Stimulus Bill: In his first 100 days, President Obama signed a $787 billion "stimulus" bill that with interest totals $1.1 trillion in new spending. ...

April 21, 2009
Voices of School Choice - D.C. Students: Save Our Scholarships
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #15)
Congress Blocks Opportunity: Congress recently approved action that threatens to phase out the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (DCOSP), a federal initiative that currently helps 1,715 ...

April 9, 2009
War on the American Dream: Sapping America's Potential
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #26)
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 significantly grew the size and scope of government, doubling the size of federal agencies--including Education and ...

April 6, 2009
The Need for Missile Defense: Now More Than Ever
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #25)
The development of the ballistic missile program has been one of the top military priorities for North Korea for almost 40 years. As a result, ...

April 3, 2009
Tea Party Talking Points: Don't Borrow, Spend, and Tax Away Our Future
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #24)
President Obama correctly points out that he inherited a projected $1.2 trillion deficit in 2009 from President Bush and a Democratic Congress. However, his budget ...

April 2, 2009
The Obama Health Care Budget: A Trillion Dollar Down Payment on What?
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #23)
The $634 billion in the President's budget is only a "down payment" on health care reform. Experts believe that the actual cost of Obama's health ...

March 31, 2009
The Growing Gap in Defense Spending: America Needs a Ready and Modernized Fighting Force
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #22)
While a robust starting point, the Obama budget blueprint fails to fully fund the core defense needs of the United States by about $30 billion ...

March 26, 2009
North Korea Missile Threat: Will Washington Blink?
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #21)
Three, Two, One ... Launch: North Korea is preparing to launch a long-range Taepo Dong-2 missile in early April, capable of hitting targets in the ...

March 25, 2009
A Costly Energy Budget: Taxpayers Pay Big for Extreme Environmental Agenda
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #20)
Even Obama's "95%": President Obama's energy policies will cost Americans more money, limit their access to America’s resources, and provide little, if any, environmental benefit. ...

March 20, 2009
The AIG (and Everyon Else) Bonus Bill: Counterproductive and Unconstitutional
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #19)
The Hit List: H.R. 1586 retroactively taxes AIG employees who are due deferred compensation and would tax that compensation at a 90% rate.

March 18, 2009
Buying Big Government: What the Obama Budget Is Costing You ... This time
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #18)
Apparently, It Does Grow on Trees: After an $800 billion stimulus bill, the President's budget increases spending by $1 trillion over 10 years, includes an ...

March 10, 2009
Employee 'NO' Choice Act: Increasing the Federal Government's Role, Again
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #14)
Card Check: The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) would replace secret ballot organizing elections with publicly signed union cards, allowing union organizers to deceive, harass, ...

March 5, 2009
Government Power and Control: The One Trillion Dollar Takeover of Health Care
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #13)
Trillion Dollars Down: In less than two months, the President has already budgeted nearly $1 TRILLION on his health care proposals--SCHIP, the stimulus, and now ...

March 3, 2009
Capping Economic Growth: Trading Tax Dollars for High Energy Costs
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #12)
Bleak Cap and Trade Future: EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said she planned to move the country toward a "carbon constrained future." Any scheme, whether cap ...

February 27, 2009
President Obama's Budget: A Better Magic Show Than Las Vegas
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #10)
Increase, Raise, and Hike: The President's budget proposal increases taxes by $1.3 trillion; raises entitlement spending by $700 billion (including the health care fund), and ...

February 27, 2009
Voices of School Choice: D.C. Students: Save Our Scholarships
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #11)
Omnibus Spending Bill Eliminates Opportunity: As it stands now, the House omnibus bill will eliminate the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (DCOSP). Since the program’s inception ...

February 26, 2009
Neighborhood Destabilization Act: H.R. 1106 Will Hurt Communities in Need
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #9)
Congress Doesn't Have the Authority: Congress lacks the constitutional authority to simply grant the District a voting representative, as the Constitution explicitly limits such representation ...

February 24, 2009
Washington, DC: A Federal City - The Constitution is Clear
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #8)
Congress Doesn't Have the Authority: Congress lacks the constitutional authority to simply grant the District a voting representative, as the Constitution explicitly limits such representation ...

February 11, 2009
It ain't over 'til it's over: Two Wrongs Don't Make a Recovery
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #6)
200 and Growing: The Obama Administration has claimed that virtually all economists support their approach to "stimulus" spending. Nobel Laureates Ed Prescott, James Buchanan, and ...

February 11, 2009
A hand out, not hand up stimulus: Bringing Back the Liberal Welfare State
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #7)
The Great Society on Steroids: "[The stimulus bill] is also a tool for rewriting the social contract with the poor, the uninsured and the unemployed, ...

February 9, 2009
Meet the New Stimulus, Same as the Old Stimulus
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #5)
I Can't Help Myself: The House passed "stimulus" bill costs $820 billion. The Senate compromise is currently $827 billion. Senators have compromised to only spend ...

February 5, 2009
'Stimulating' The Wrong Debate: What Is This Debt Plan Really About?
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #4)
This Isn't Just About Pork: President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid want you to believe this debate is about minor "pet projects" making ...

February 3, 2009
Smart Stimulus: The American Option
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #1)
Introduced by Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), the American Option Act proposes to aggressively and immediately lower taxes on businesses and individuals. Tax cuts will create ...

February 3, 2009
No Jobs, No Growth, No Need
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #3)
Wrong Idea: Debt should make the economy more competitive by purchasing assets that produce income - that is, assets that earn a return greater than ...

February 2, 2009
The Trillion Dollar Spending Plan: Why Spending Does Not Equal Stimulus
By heritage.org
(Fact Sheet #2)
The Senate spending bill of $900 billion is equal in size to the entire economy of Australia. It is twice the size of oil-rich Saudi ...